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10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
jcroft & zane,
you two dont get it either. maybe because you arent creative. how about this scenario: you are ESPN. you want to use the quartz composer to designing a cool screensaver to handle ONLY your RSS feed. sadly, when you do create a screensaver using quartz composer, it defaults to the same behavior that the one apple ships with tiger has. so then you have to explain to your readers that they need to open safari, bookmark the RSS, and blah blah blah. lots of steps. and that leaves the screen saver open to manipulation with the "options..." button that you are all fond of pointing out. this hint would let someone create a unique RSS screensaver that an end user cant mess with. unless they hack it with this hint, that is. thats what "be creative" meant.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
I am not creative? I'm a graphic and web designer by trade, and a pretty well respected one, at that.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
"this hint would let someone create a unique RSS screensaver that an end user cant mess with. unless they hack it with this hint, that is. "
Actually, that's not true. The options button will still let you modify the preferred RSS feed after you have manipulated the .plist as described in this hint. Why? Because this hint is merely modifying the preferred RSS feed by typing it in the long way directly in the .plist file instead of choosing it from the option button. And to be clear, this has nothing to do with creativity, just simplicity. Had the hint actually been about using Quartz Composer to create a new RSS feed screen saver that is site-specific or is unique in some other way (like making the feed all lower case) that would be creative. This hint did not discuss anything to do with Quartz Composer. This hint discussed taking the long road and manually changing the .plist file instead of simply doing it via the preference pane. That being said, I applaud the hint poster for taking the initiative and figuring out how it all works.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
LOUD NOISES!!!!!!!!!
(See the movie Anchorman)
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
That is actually not true, because you can define the url for the feed in the quarz composer already. Just select the first box RSS Feed box in the Root patch layout and do an Apple-I. Cycle to (or choose from the pulldown menu) Input Parameters and enter your RSS Feeds URL. Once you modified all what you want, color, speed, whatever, and you save it, it will keep the url. |
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