Visualizer Screen saver

I have seen where a non RSS feed as the screen saver for Visualizer.
Any ideas as to how to make that happen. I saw it at the Apple store.
Mark

Oh....my....gaddd....
Ok this is the only thing that seemed to work, including all sorts of cache, database checking, net connection checks, etc.
I had the desktop/screensaver pref screen open... nothing but squirly blue clouds which was the problem I was having....
Clicking any of the feeds did not bring the 'swinging rss' feed titles... as usual for my problem... clicked all over the preview window, nothing...
blah blah blah I moved the Start S.Saver slider from 9 min. start to 5 min. start and that seemed to get it going again!!!
I clicked back to Apple Hot News and nothing there, but almost all the other RSS feeds seem to work fine in both preview, test, and hot corner operation now...
I know the blue clouds was nice, but the Feeds add something to it... so i guess now I can use the Apple Hot News feed as a pretty cloud S.Saver background now... oh well

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However, I am disappointed that:
a] only the first ten new feed headlines are ever displayed and even then, from just the one selected news feed source; and
b] even though I have defined a number of news feeds in the preferences dialog box, there seems to be no way of prompting RSS Visualizer to move on and display headlines from the next site defined in the preferences dialog box.
Does anyone have a workaround for this?
Thanks
Jai
PS I have made a submission through the Mac OSX feedback page.
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Oh....my....gaddd....
Ok this is the only thing that seemed to work, including all sorts of cache, database checking, net connection checks, etc.
I had the desktop/screensaver pref screen open... nothing but squirly blue clouds which was the problem I was having....
Clicking any of the feeds did not bring the 'swinging rss' feed titles... as usual for my problem... clicked all over the preview window, nothing...
blah blah blah I moved the Start S.Saver slider from 9 min. start to 5 min. start and that seemed to get it going again!!!
I clicked back to Apple Hot News and nothing there, but almost all the other RSS feeds seem to work fine in both preview, test, and hot corner operation now...
I know the blue clouds was nice, but the Feeds add something to it... so i guess now I can use the Apple Hot News feed as a pretty cloud S.Saver background now... oh well

Will Apple ever fix the 12/31/200 date RSS Visualizer Screen Saver issue?

I had to reopen the discussion about the RSS Visualizer:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6474304
I realize Apple may think the rest of the world (ex. CNN, Digg, etc..) needs to change their RSS feeds, but why not fix the RSS screensaver so that it doesn't default to December 31, 2000 and show only 4 news stories for most feeds? Even most of Apples RSS feeds don't comply. And this is by design?

Better is to send bug reports and enhancement requests to Apple via its Bug Reporter system. To do the latter, join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure over submitting feedback is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

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Is there any hack to get the RSS Visualizer Screen saver to work as ones desktop?
Thanks.

Applescript:
tell application "System Events" to
"ScreenSaverEngine" is in name of processes
if the result is true then
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to quit
else
tell application "Terminal"
if not (exists window 1) then do script ""
do script
pt
"/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Reso
urces/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaver
Engine -background &" in front window
end tell
end if
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Hello, I am wondering if there is any way to get a "Visualizer" for my Apple TV, like iTunes has that is basically a screen saver that wavers with the pitch and beat of the music. Similar to those on Windows Media Player, xBox 360, PS3, etc... Or is there at least a way to get/buy an alternative "Screen Saver" besides the floating pictures?
If not, that is a serious design flaw that someone should have thought about before release. I mean, come on, a unit that is designed to be hooked up to your TV and play music? You need to have something visual and floating pictures are not only boring but borderline annoying. I have to believe it is an easy fix with a software update; I mean, everyone else has managed to incorporate one into their products as I mentioned above and **** iTunes even has its own Visualizer, and in my humble opinion, rivals only windows media player in top quality. There has to be a way to at least stream it like AirTunes streams the music iTunes is playing to the Apple TV that plays it out the speakers it is hooked up to; with G protocol you could easily add a video stream that would stream the iTunes visualizer to the Apple TV and display it on the TV.
Anyway, just thoughts, if anyone cares, not really upset with the product, in fact, I love it so much I'm thinking of proposing to it soon (it has no idea). I just REALLY wish I could throw up a sick Visualizer on my Samsung 60" 240hz LED TV to go along with my music...SOS! Help!
Thank you.

AppleProductUser101 wrote:
Hello, I am wondering if there is any way to get a "Visualizer" for my Apple TV, like iTunes has that is basically a screen saver that wavers with the pitch and beat of the music. Similar to those on Windows Media Player, xBox 360, PS3, etc... Or is there at least a way to get/buy an alternative "Screen Saver" besides the floating pictures?
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Screen Saver with iTunes Visualizer

Does anyone know of a program/script/screen saver package that will allow the screen saver to automatically activate the iTunes Visualizer on the Mac?

I'm sure there's got to be an easier way for free
I don't know about easy, but delving into the power of OS X is a good idea. Automator actions seem to need a double click or input--in this case from screensaver.
Have you tried asking in the Automator folder?
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I suffered from an ATV stutter/freeze and crash whenever I tried to stream music and use Album Cover Art as the screen-saver.
I tried a small, no LARGE experiment (over 35,000 songs) in iTunes. I had *a lot* of Exotica and Space Age Pop from out of print lps and I used to save full scans of the front and back covers in each song. Some were over 1800 pixels in size, adding a couple of MGs to each song! This wasn't an issue with drive space or my current iMac/iTunes for me.
I resized any album art over 600 -700 pixels. If the art was over this size, I used a script to export the art to a 600 x 600 pixel jpg and re-embedded them in the album.
Now I can happily stream, use other macs and still have stutter-free art work on the HD TV. I'm convinced now as some others here, that the ATV is just not powerful enough to push through a graphics intensive task while playing music. Right now as I type, I'm listening to internet radio, my partner is surfing on the other mac AND the screen-saver is displaying my Album Art in all its glory. This was impossible last week. No wonder ATV doesn't offer a visualizer.
A

A valuable observation Al, I also conducted some simple experiments and found that setting the time taken for the screensaver to kick in for longer resolved the issues with poor response when using the album art as a screensaver.
Perhaps you might share your script so that others might try your diagnosis.

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On my Screen Saver, Images come up which I know I have deleted from my iPhoto Library. How do I find them to remove?
Any help would be appreciated,
Jim

japamac,
Have done as suggested
Macintosh HD/ System / Library /Screen Savers / ( right click or File/ Get Info .saver) Show Package Contents / Contents /Resources
From /Contents/Resources the list is….
Abstract.slideSaver
Beach,slideSaver
Cosmos.slideSaver
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Screen saver in ibook

When reading book in ibooks on my ipad, the screen will go dim like it is about to go black. How do I stop this from happening?
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What one is it? the ones Apple supplies are:
• Arabesque
• Computer Name
• Flurry
• iTunes Artwork
• RSS Visualizer
• Shell
• Spectrum
• Word of the Day
Those should all be under the "Apple" category in the Screen Saver system preferences. Third-party ones should be in the "Other" category.

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I have a screen saver (locking screen) of Harry Potter that displays while I listen to a podcast. I cannot figure out how can I change it. It is not wallpaper and seems to have been set automatically when I loaded the copy of the movie (HP7 digital copy). Normally what displays is an image from the podcast and I find this very annoying that it changes the system on me.

Hi...
Thanks, I thought there was going to be something like the visualizer (I knew windows has something) that’s why I asked....
I know I can do a few things at once - but - who get’s the audio? I know I could bring something up on YouTube or something from the internet; but I’m thinking there’s going to be an audio issue. I haven’t really tried - but I just know there's going to be an issue.
Is there a way of “designating” audio while several visuals are playing?
In any event - the visualizer is just great - thanks.

Hot News Screen Saver

Apple Fans,
Here is the setup and followup question.
I have my powerbook screen saver set up to display the "Hot News"/RSS Visualizer. Therefore, when it is time to switch over to the screen saver the news pops up on, I quess what you would call, a rotating type of display and if i want to access the information shown at that time I touch the coresponding number (ex. Apple launches Quicktime 8... press "2" for more info), blah, blah, blah, you know.
Anyway... the background when this happens is blue. How can I change the color background?
I have gone to the screen saver section and I don't see a place in there that this can be done.
Thanks in advance for any helpful hints!
Allen
17' g4 powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Tuttle,
no, i didn't know that. thanks for the info. i think the rss feed/screensaver was a great idea that apple came up with. i'm sure its got a few fans out there.
i must admit though that i am a bit suprised that i can't change the color. oh well.
thanks for the help anyway.
allen
17' g4 powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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I have setup a screen saver using an RSS feed from a blog that I run. I have one blog post per week and until this week I was able to see all of them. Now, all I can see are the last 4. I have checked and blog and all seven posts are available from the main screen and I have archiving turned off in my blog settings. Is there some limitation on the blog posts that can be pulled down with the RSS visualizer?

You're most welcome. Glad to help.
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Screen Saver Disappearance bug/glitch

This post is more of a reassurance that this bug didn't just happen to me and would like to see how many other people have encountered this "bug". (I am not sure if I should call this a bug or glitch.)
I have my screensaver set to the Word of the Day, and it usually works 95% of the time. The problem is sometimes it will start out as the word of the day screensaver but go black and have, in white letters, "Quartz Composer" (or something along those lines). I would go into system preferences, go under the screen savers, and find that these screen savers missing as options:
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