Wanted: Web-Based Screen Saver
March 30th, 2005
I’ve decided what I want for (quick check) Saint Zosimus’ Day: a Windows-compatible screensaver that will:
- poll a web site for an XML file containing a to-do list; and
- display that list whenever my computer goes idle for 5 or 10 minutes.
Bonus marks if it’ll run on Linux and Mac; more bonus marks if it comes with a command-line tool, a Firefox browser plugin, an HTML form interface, and a little standalone GUI for editing to-do entries. Note that running a browser in full-screen mode as a “background” doesn’t count.
$3,000 ?
seriously, why do you think that it’s that useful ?
i can imagine some applications (throw in integration with outlook). the idea is not bad, but there are so many good ideas …
Isn’t stuff like that what God made students for?
Seriously, it sounds like an interesting project.
ObPython: url/homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/
Specifically: url/homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/win32screensaver-0.3.2.zip
I’ve used it in the past to create a screensaver to draw the Sierpinski Triangle using the “step halfway towards a random point out of a choice of three” method.
As a side note, your commenting system makes it really hard to post. I apparently can’t enter the four letters “h”, “t”, “t”, and “p” in that order in the