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.
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An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we...
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Ok, what I wanted to say was that I've published instructions for how to get this to work. Check it out:
http://moourl.com/twitterverse
It's true that this tagging also exists in the Protected AAC files. I used the same "strings" technique on a file I had previously purchased and the same string showed up.
One oddity: the last word/string in the Ooh La song is "free". Dunno if that's coincidence or is related to the fact that this song was part of their free iTunes promo series.
Crap, 1Password filled in the comment too! Bah.
May 07 2008 at 2:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen 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?
May 07 2008 at 1:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYeah, doesnt work for me either, I get a black screen
May 07 2008 at 11:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd 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.
May 07 2008 at 10:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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.
May 07 2008 at 9:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wonder why Apple put this in. They have never talked about twitter.
May 07 2008 at 7:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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!
May 07 2008 at 5:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhaaa! All i have in my Developer folder is another called ApplicationsUtilties. And inside this are Applet Launcher and Jar Bundler.
I thought I installed all the Developer Tools from my Leopard discs, did I not?
is there any way i could use this with pownce.. no one use pownce.. whatever!
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