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Use an RSS Feed as a Desktop Background |
If you're not using the RSS screensaver on your Mac, we'll forgive you. This time. With a little terminal code and your favorite RSS feed, however, you can get this bad boy to display behind all your apps and desktop icons, as your desktop wallpaper. Cool, huh?
Go ahead and drop into System Preferences and then click on the Screensaver tab of the Desktop & Screensaver preference pane. Notice that there's a Screensaver called RSS Visualizer. Select it. Click on the Options button in the lower right corner, under the blue cloud image. Select one of the RSS feeds already provided to you by Apple, or add your own favorite RSS URL in the field at the bottom. Cult of Mac RSS feed, anyone?
Once you've set that up, issue the following command in Terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background
As long as you don't change Spaces, or expect to actually press the number keys to read the stories, you're good to go. You can watch as long as you like, until you're bored–not that you would be with our RSS feed, mind you–and hit Control-C to end the process.
Seems like a cool way to keep up to date on the latest news from your favorite website, right?Restore Apple's RSS Visualizer Screensaver To Mountain Lion [OS X Tips]
Rob LeFebvre (6:00 am PDT, Aug 9th 2012)
I really liked the RSS Visualizer screensaver from OS X Lion and earlier, but for some reason, Apple's taken it out of the install of OS X Mountain Lion. Luckily for all of us who enjoy watching an RSS feed swirl around the screen in a fun 3D style, there's hope. The screensaver file works just fine in Mountain Lion – you just need to grab it from an earlier OS X install, like OS X Lion, and move it to your current machine. Here's how.
You'll need a copy of the actual screensaver file, so head to a Mac with an earlier OS X on it, or grab a backup of a Mac with an earlier OS X on it, and then go to the System Folder, then the Library folder, and then open the Screen Savers folder. You should see a file called RSS Visualizer.qtz. Copy this file to your OS X Mountain Lion Mac in whatever way makes best sense to you.
Next, on the Mountain Lion Mac, open your Home folder, then the Library folder, then the Screen Saver folder. Put the RSS Visualizer.qtz file there. CLose all the folders. Launch System Preferences and click on the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane. Choose Screen Saver from the top two buttons, and you'll now see RSS Visualizer as an option.
Of course you'll want to add the Cult of Mac RSS feed to the options, so you can keep track of all the great posts here as they happen!
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