July 20, 2006 - Chris Marquardt from Tips from the Top Floor announced the release of the screen saver on his podcast - Tips from the Top Floor, episode 140.
If you would like to be kept up-to-date about improvements / new releases of the screen saver, drop me a liine (derek - at - ellerton .net).
July 17, 2006 - Click here to download v1.00 of the Tips from The Top Floor RSS screen saver.
Hi there. Welcome to the home of the simple Tips From the Top Floor (TFTTF) RSS screen saver... Designed to run on recent Mac OS X machines... (So far tested only on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.x)
Just place the DYE TFTTF RSS.qtz file into the following location, to make it available for use on your Mac:
Macintosh HD -> Library -> ScreenSavers
Once placed in this location, you should be able to select it in the ScreenSaver System Preference. (If it doesn't appear, fully close the System Preference pane, and re-open it again).
What does the Screen Saver do?
-Downloads the latest Tips from the Top Floor text via the TFTTF RSS feed
-Displays the episode name in a disolving text at the centre of the screenm
-Displays the episode description in a scrolling fashion, from the bottom of the screen, upwards.
-Scrolls a Tips From the Top Floor logo (thanks Chris!) up the left hand side of the screen.
(plus animates the background colour shading, thanks to some standard Apple libraries).
Simple? Yes. Got any ideas / suggestions / improvements?
If you have any feedback, or comments, drop me a line... I'd love to hear from you.
Or, if you're able... Feel free to make a Paypal donation to my 'Derek needs a decent programming code book' fund. Just click on the PayPal Donate button below, and make a contribution of your choice :-)
Cheers!
Derek Yeoh-Ellerton (Perth, Western Australia)
derek -at- ellerton. net
Click here to download v1.00 of the Tips from The Top Floor RSS screen saver.
Sample image of the TFTTF RSS screen saver in action:
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