Flickr Find: Twitter in Mac OS X developer tools
You can find this Quartz composition in the ~/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer/Compositions/XML/The Twitterverse/The Twitterverse.qtz. If you want to add it as a screen saver, just drag it onto the preview in the "Screen Saver" part of the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane (in System Preferences.app). You can then add your username / password in the screen saver options.
Thanks, Chris!
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5-06-2008 @ 9:19PM
Frank Furter said...
Say, because I'm old enough to not be 'hip' and too lazy to look myself, can one of you hipsters tell me what the he** Twitter is and why I would want to use it (and why TUAW is obsessed with it)?
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5-06-2008 @ 9:29PM
Cory Bohon said...
CommonCraft has an excellent video showing exactly what Twitter is and what it does. I highly recommend taking a look at it if you're wondering: http://commoncraft.com/Twitter
5-07-2008 @ 7:23AM
robogobo said...
It's yet another social networking site. Except this time it's just one way. I know I know. You need that like a hole in your head. Indeed, it's very much like a hole in your head.
5-07-2008 @ 8:25AM
Frank Furter said...
Uh, yeah, guess that's kinda what I thought. I guess I'm not 12 anymore and don't see the need for this. Two big problems - one, like I have time (aside from replying to weblogs) to log in to some site, type in what I'm doing, and remember to do this every time I do something relevant. Two, like my idiot friends (both of them!) would remember/want to log in and do the same.
As if.
5-07-2008 @ 11:25AM
Chris Coleman said...
Did you forget to pay your Google bill this month or something?
5-07-2008 @ 11:27AM
Frank Furter said...
What part of "I'm lazy" is not being understood?
5-06-2008 @ 9:26PM
mingistech said...
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
_Gawd ur LAZY.
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5-06-2008 @ 10:05PM
Reynish said...
tiger love?
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5-06-2008 @ 10:08PM
Bren said...
Doesn't seem to want to work for me. I enter my info, but I just have blank icons staying in place.
I took the Quartz file and removed the Twitter part, so now I have a nice Time Machine-like screensaver.
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5-06-2008 @ 10:12PM
CB said...
I followed the instructions, but Sys Prefs keeps asking me about adding to the keychain over and over again (never stops asking).
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5-06-2008 @ 10:57PM
patrick said...
yeah...no love on my end. doesn't seem to be working... ideas? I followed the instructions, entered my password etc, annnnd...notta.
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5-06-2008 @ 10:59PM
Cameron said...
Would someone mind posting a mirror of this file? I can't be bothered to find my Leopard disc.
Much appreciated.
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5-06-2008 @ 11:04PM
StevenBallmer said...
Stupid! Just like the twitts who use twitter!
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5-07-2008 @ 1:17AM
wwd said...
I can't seem to get it to work either. I dragged to the preview pane, entered login info in "Options" and got a black screen.
I even edited the file in Quartz Composer to include my login info by default and got the same results. Bummer. Man.
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5-07-2008 @ 1:40AM
AGS said...
is there any way i could use this with pownce.. no one use pownce.. whatever!
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5-07-2008 @ 2:08AM
NotAwesome said...
Whaaa! All i have in my Developer folder is another called Applications\Utilties. And inside this are Applet Launcher and Jar Bundler.
I thought I installed all the Developer Tools from my Leopard discs, did I not?
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5-07-2008 @ 5:01AM
Macroy said...
I was having trouble with this, too, until I unchecked "Use local" in the options. I don't really know what that means/does, so if I was wrong, and if this ends up breaking your computer, don't blame me!
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5-07-2008 @ 7:34AM
Charles Sporn said...
I wonder why Apple put this in. They have never talked about twitter.
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5-07-2008 @ 9:55AM
Jake said...
I cannot seem to get it to work. When I enter in my information, It goes and gets the info, well it looks like it does and then I get errors and thats all. Sad, it looks pretty cool.
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5-07-2008 @ 10:16AM
jasenj1 said...
And with Wallsaver (http://www.nwwnetwork.net/software.php?app=wallsaver) you can turn that screensaver into your wallpaper. Then you can always have your twitter friends in your face.
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