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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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Frank Furter said 9:19PM on 5-06-2008
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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Cory Bohon said 9:29PM on 5-06-2008
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
robogobo said 7:23AM on 5-07-2008
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.
Frank Furter said 8:25AM on 5-07-2008
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.
Chris Coleman said 11:25AM on 5-07-2008
Did you forget to pay your Google bill this month or something?
Frank Furter said 11:27AM on 5-07-2008
What part of "I'm lazy" is not being understood?
mingistech said 9:26PM on 5-06-2008
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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CB said 10:12PM on 5-06-2008
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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Reynish said 10:05PM on 5-06-2008
tiger love?
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Bren said 10:08PM on 5-06-2008
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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patrick said 10:57PM on 5-06-2008
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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wwd said 1:17AM on 5-07-2008
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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AGS said 1:40AM on 5-07-2008
is there any way i could use this with pownce.. no one use pownce.. whatever!
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NotAwesome said 2:08AM on 5-07-2008
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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Macroy said 5:01AM on 5-07-2008
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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Charles Sporn said 7:34AM on 5-07-2008
I wonder why Apple put this in. They have never talked about twitter.
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Jake said 9:55AM on 5-07-2008
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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jasenj1 said 10:16AM on 5-07-2008
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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Shai said 11:55AM on 5-07-2008
Yeah, doesnt work for me either, I get a black screen
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Thomas Deliduka said 1:41PM on 5-07-2008
When it loads for me, I appear and my other friends appear around me. However, it brings up a message at the bottom saying "Press the spacebar" when I do that, my screen saver cuts off (and asks for password since I have it password protected). Not sure what that is all about, how do you run this normally so you can see what happens when you press the spacebar?
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