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- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -37/+72How about you stop whining and fix the problem? If your OS doesn't support mainstream media formats then maybe it's a good time to change it?
In other words: WE DON'T CARE - YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -7/+39My Commodore64 can't open Swarm either!
- internetboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22I dont know why you did all of that.
#1 it does not work
#2 thare is a much easer way:
1. Right click your desktop,
2. Click on Properties
3. Click on the Desktop tab.
3. Click on Customize Desktop
4. Click on the Web tab.
4. Click on New
5. Enter in "http://labs.digg.com/swarm/" in the location box
5. Press "OK" to close the Customization window, and "OK" on Desktop Properties.
no BS or JS.
You should see Swarm on your desktop now. - psilanthropist, on 10/12/2007, -16/+37(sigh) Digg Swarm dosen't even open in Linux. (You can thank Adobe for that)
- Bigbro69, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Might be nice if you actually included the JAVASCRIPT FILE in the zip package.
But ya'know, I'm happy looking at a black background. It's cool. - betteroffalone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16God damn digg is used by a bunch of whiny bitches. Even if it doesnt work for some of you its still ***** cool that he has it on his desktop. +digg
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The Javascript file doesn't need to be stored locally to work. Check your Internet Explorer settings, you probably have your security set too high. As a last resort, trying add "http://labs.digg.com/swarm" to your Trusted sites list.
- JakeMcMahon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Ooh, black.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@bigbro69: No, it isn't referencing a local path. The base tag forces it to reference the file at the remote path I specified. My solution is working for all three of my machines, so I'm not quite sure what to tell you.
- srodolff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm waiting for a little ship to appear and shooting down stories.
This is awesome. - moiety, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Can you define "not working"? Does the flash not load, do you receive JS errors, what precisely is the issue?
- Jacob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Um if you link directly to the sfv file it works fine. Try out these links
labs.digg.com/stack/main.swf
labs.digg.com/swarm/main.swf - herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6look...just make the active desktop link to http://labs.digg.com/swarm/ and ignor any error messages and it should work....works for me
- Ligrone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Most awesomest thing I came across today. Finally, a background worthy of my dell 2407.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yes, you certainly could do that, but I wanted to use the app on my desktop.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Also note that the Labs might just be under heavy load, and you might not be able to fetch the Flash or JS data from the site at times. This has occurred twice even this morning for me, and I'm guessing that's the problem you had.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@l1wulf:
What really pisses me off is when they announce a new feature that will be part of Vista, or someone posts a Digg story about a Windows program, and Linux and Mac users come and say "Oh yeah? My OS has had that since the beginning."
Then they come and bitch about flash support. I say when (if) they port Flash 8/9 to Linux, we spam their stories with "Oh yeah? Well, my OS has had that since the beginning." - heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@masamunecyrus
No you can't, you just get "Error, Internal error, Try again"
@moiety
You can make the SWF have a transparent background and the swarm would exist on top of your current desktop using Zinc 2.5 (SWF to EXE software, + more) - rYno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5ya it's not referencing a local flash - if you'd look at the basehref.
I've added the link to the trusted sites but stil staring at a black screen... I notice it opened a small chromeless window which I set to full screen but still have the non-working version. If you select the screen - I get a "Swarm failed to load" in black text.
Also I put absolute links to the swf and the javascript file as well - still nothing.
This would be pretty pimp to get working though. - Rocksea24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I couldn't get it to work using the swarm.html but if you use the actual URL "http://labs.digg.com/swarm/" in place of the file it should work just fine.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think the Coral cache I was referencing crashed. Try the fresh copy I just uploaded.
- MiamiGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I followed all the instructions carefully but all I get it is a black small box on my desktop and it doesn't show anything.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'm happy to try and troubleshoot any problems. Can you tell me how it's not working for you? Try loading the "swarm.html" file in Internet Explorer and see if there's any Javascript errors, or timeouts of some kind.
- aaronlidman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7not to be an ass, but has this worked for anyone yet?
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3for those who cant get it to work, try this (worked for me) view the swarm in IE (yes, I know..) once you have, some file (not sure which) will be cached, from there on, your desktop wallpaper swarm thing should work.
- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -15/+18@Mooninite
I'm sorry that your parents didn't give you any money and you became frustrated. Maybe you should get out of your bedroom and get some life? See, nobody FORCES you to buy anything. This story has a very clear title: "Digg Swarm for *Windows* Desktops". So why don't you go and whine about how evil the world is and about how you're a l33t h4x0r and you have to use Linux.
In case you didn't understand: WE DON'T CARE.
@YourTechSupport: :) - ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9haha... "too high."
- kimzor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dude...this is awesome! Thank you!
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@ThatsUnpossible: I know, I immediately saw the irony of my comment and laughed.
- killerklown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Its works fine in Gentoo. Maybe you need to learn how to use it. You can easily set it as your background.
- scotty588, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Active desktop just makes your icons look bad. It makes you select a background color instead of transparent. Anyone know a way around this?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is freaking awesome. I wish you could click on the links without them opening a new window though.
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Source plz.
- usergentoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Come over to the Gentoo, or Ubuntu forums were nice enough guys to teach you, even if it is a different distro. Just checked it out and it works in Gentoo. Nice work guys.
- albybum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Simple VB.Net screensaver using the Digg Tools SWF Files.
Requires Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0
http://www.albybum.net/diggSaver.zip
Rename the .exe file inside to a .scr to make it a screensaver and drop it in the Windows folder.
I made this for myself, but thought I would share it. - l1wulf, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Where are the Linux evangelists proclaiming how much better it is now? This is what I hate about the OS wars. I'm not saying any of the above are culprits, but I'm tired of hearing, "Linux is better because XXX" or "Haha, Winblowz sucks, get a real OS!" only to see "Wah, how come there isn't support for Linux?" or "Who's the crappy programmer that decided to not make this work in Linux?" Obviously, it boils down to Linux rules except for when it can't do the same stuff that Windows does, in which case, it's the programmer's fault for not supporting Linux.
But I guess it will never end.
Back on track, if not in the right thread. Having just checked out swarm, I'm not sure I'd want that much activity distracting me on my desktop. Good concept, just not practical, IMO. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4There was a digg story on it before which probably prompted this.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/idleweb.html
It has a desktop mode in the screensaver's preferences. You also have to set the start scrolling time to a really big number. - Sun.Surfin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Works fine for me, but anybody who wants a huge flash file in the background of their PC all the time is insane :P
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@internetboy: I suggest this as an option on the page, as you saw. I created the "swarm.html" method because I only wanted the swarm visualization and not the rest of the page and navigation junk. Simple as that.
- ericeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was just saying in another article about API that people should do this if they have windows... cool and easy implementation.
- firemaker103, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What web tab? :
http://i7.tinypic.com/212xw1i.png - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It won't work if you have apps like IconX running.
For some reason IconX doesn't play along with Active Desktop. - scotty588, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can stretch the window or full size it. Move your mouse over a corner and drag or move it to the top right and press the little square to full size.
- adamasta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heum that's cool thx its really a good idea :P i got it to work after a while... but stil a problem it works in like 1 tenth of my screen wich makes the little yellow bubbles bounce into each other pretty badly XD
- captainbluebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks for that, it's absolutely mesmerising.
- kLacK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I get a black screen that says "Swarm failed to load." if you highlight the background. Added to my secure sites, tried it in IE, no go.
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I did your steps but it doesnt appear (still has my old desktop background).
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Wine + Firefox + Flash 9 = Flash 9 in Linux
Ignorance is such bliss. - geuisteses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2To add to this if you get a little box w/ the webpage in it, hover over the top of the little window and you'll get a menu bar. Click on the left box in the top right corner and it'll go full screen.
- Laurentvw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Did not work for me, unfortunately.
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