A Digg Screensaver For OS X
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 » Mac OS X, Software, The Web
As most Mac users will know, Tiger has a built-in screensaver for displaying RSS feeds. And it’s pretty damn nice, too. The first time my dad saw it at the Apple Store in Lyndhurst, he commented on how cool the animations were. Being the only Mac convert in my family, I began to think there was hope for him after all. RSS has undoubtedly changed the way I read most articles and news stories on the ‘net. With digg being one of my favourite news sites, I thought about how cool it would be to have a digg-style screensaver. That, and I was extremely bored this evening. After about an hour of creation and debugging madness, I give you a diggSaver… er, digg screensaver for OS X.
Included in this ZIP archive is the screensaver file, along with the font used for headlines. You can double-click on the font to install it via Font Book, or if you use a font manager, such as Linotype FontExplorerX, you can install it through that program. As for the screensaver file itself, just copy it into ~/Library/Screen Savers. Open up System Preferences, Desktop & Screen Saver, and choose Digg from the Screen Savers list.
This is a 1.0 release, and I do plan on adding more eye candy to it. This screensaver, with the exception of the “digg guy” logo, is being released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License.
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That’s pretty neat. Too bad it didn’t do well on Digg.
Nice job! Looks good and its functional. I installed it on my computer to test it. Keep up the good work
very cool, thanks
will you publish the source code or explain how you wrote this?
it looks like a quicktime movie file?