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- psylence, on 10/12/2007, -7/+137Global blog activity? Someone ***** shoot me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56http://twingly.se/ScreenSaver.aspx
^Direct link to the download page. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+62why the ***** would I want constant updates of blogs all around the globe?
this whole blog thing has gone out of hand, and that's mainly due to the amateur bloggers, sorry bunch of morons though they are - Pile, on 10/12/2007, -6/+55Let me see if I have this straight...
I want a screen saver that kicks into action when I'm not at my computer and shows a bunch of real time information, sucked off the internet from all around the world so while the computer isn't in use for me, it can consume lots of bandwidth that other people, actually at their computers, could use. Ahhh, ok... - ViRaZ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43To bad there isn't a screen saver like that for digg.
- Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Linux and Microsoft, with their powers combined, they bring you: Flying Pixel Stars!!! (AKA Starfield)
The coolest screensaver in the pixel star universe. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36would be cool if it measured something useful.
- LowFuel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Maybe it could measure how much of your screen has been saved.
- steven401, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34I installed it and after a few seconds of it running it would just crash... :(
- ritec, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36screen savers are so CRT.
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I'll stick to ElectricSheep on my Linux boxes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29Or...not.
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20
Yeah it crashes for me too. I'm using Windows 64-bit edition and a Z80 microprocessor, with graphics drivers I wrote myself in Logo.
Not sure what's wrong. - LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18No! Johnny Castaway is the coolest screen saver on Earth.
Flying Toasters comes close, though... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19It's a friggin screensaver, were you expecting it to do your tax returns for you?
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Personal Blogs: Making me want to swallow a knife since 1997.
Also, I think Personal Blogs and Pro Blogs (engadget, hack a day, etc, etc) need separate names.
I say Personal Blogs can keep the name "Blog". But Pro Blogs need something else...
I mean, look at podcast... What a stupid way to say: "heres an mp3 of me and two guys you never heard of talk about topics so boring that you have to have them verbalize it to you so that you don't fall asleep. that doesn't matter though because 2 minutes into the 3 hour ordeal, you'll find something more exciting, perhaps a flash game or something worth reading, then all of a sudden you'll forget what the past 5 minutes have been talking about, so you close your media player and get on with not listening to your sucky pseudo-content" - bryhhh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17> Here's a direct link
Where? - pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19I captured the installation in Altiris Software Virtualization Solution so it wouldn't install any spyware directly on my system, and it appears to be clean:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5444/twingleyry1.png - lcmatt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgIT-hfgOXY&eurl=
Direct link to the video - ryanschmidt, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18not mac support? sadface.
- wicked9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Here's something similar for all platforms http://www.mappedup.com/
- cfdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Sorry, BOINC is the coolest screensaver http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ I'm happy to know that when I'm not at my computer it's looking for aliens (SETI), curing Aids, performing climate predictions for agriculture and other more worldly things then my day job.
- xerokitsune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Personally I liked the Mac RSS reader a bit better, not as pretty but easier to read.
- funkspiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I stopped using screensavers. After so many minutes, my screen goes blank.
- kinggfx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The last thing I need is a tool to monitor blogs written by people who think they actually have something interesting to say.
- HalFTW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Nah, it's a bit temperamental. AKA crap.
- offwhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That would be Kevin Mitnick bouncing his messages off a server in Africa to avoid getting into trouble again.
- mixon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Crashed first time I ran it :0
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Meh. Too bad it monitors blogs. Blogs are like masturbation. Fun but ultimately useless. (and I certainly don't want to watch/read about it) This story is a perfect example -- instead of linking straight to the content you decided to link to a site (probably your own blog) that linked to ANOTHER site which finally linked to the actual content. What a waste of time.
- geuisteses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6just ran this for about 10 minutes. 90% of blog comments are coming from Myspace. 8% are from spammers. 2% have something interesting.
Meh - Zaetha, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"For the best experience, try forcing anti-aliasing on your graphics card. See instructions: ATI, NVidia, Intel."
Follow the Intel link. You'll find the truth.
At the moment, the official Digg has 0 Diggs, he he he... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@pcgeek
I was referring to the lack of a link. - shadow289, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5when will we think of organizing ourselves to use the digg effect for something useful?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yup, I get that too. I use Vista and the latest nvidia drivers but it still crashes.. ;_;
- offwhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Like? I have some suggestions. They could show real-time calls to 911 emergency or each time an ambulance is dispatched. That would at least be interesting. In a more helpful way to the general public I would like mobile phones to ping a server with the name of their network (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc) and their GPS coordinates when the have a dropped call. I would really like to see that compiled over time as well, perhaps by coloring the map a little darker with each dropped call in the location with the ability to filter to a specific network to see their actual performance. More dropped calls in an area would show a major the dark spots and warn you not to buy into that network if you live near there. I double Verizon on the other networks would provide such a service publicly, but since we can place third-part software on phones it would be possible to do this completely without their support.
- flarn2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow...Service Temporarily Unavailable...
That's so cool! - Ramzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My thoughts exactly.
- Xavier1012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3not compatible with vista...(oh dear god why did I upgrade?)
- captjc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Windows and Mac, no Linux.
Looks great though. - uzibeatle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is silly.
A far better idea for a useful screen saver would be a screen saver that would display a global graph of the estimated
electricity used while using screen savers worldwide and or viewing porn or the like.
Yeah, that would be on the same level of useful information.
As a perk, sell it and offer to donate the proceeds to Greenpeace or 'Save the Humpback Whales'.
Oh, yes, and when or if ever you create this screensave make sure your design pegs the CPU and preferably the 600 dollar GPU too. - offwhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish they would release that software to allow me to post my own activities, like purchases on a commerce site in real time. I have done work for companies with online storefronts and it would be cool to place a large LCD in the main room with this display showing the incoming orders and visitors along with the products people are viewing and placing in their baskets. You could observe trends as they happen. I'd also like to see this data for news sites for CNN, MSNBC, BBC, etc and show the main topics listed along the side of the globe. You could just send out JSON messages with globe coordinates.
- Yareking, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5always crash for me
- bekeleven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nah, the coolest screen-saver was on Windows Plus! 98, where your desktop got up and started moving around. Unfortunately, I had to uninstall Plus! 98 because it crashed my computer, and now I forget its name.
Pity. - HesNikke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4marked as spam because it'd blogspam
digg this instead: http://digg.com/design/3D_Screensaver_visualizing_global_blog_activity_in_realtime - the link takes you strait to the screensaver! - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If it overheats, it's clocked or ventilated badly. :-p
- Tippis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...shhh!
You'll give someone bad ideas about creating JC2 - now for Vista, with all the DX10 bling you could ever handle. It would make sure your computer used more power when "idling" than when you did something useful...
Kind of like what it seemed like when you tried to run JC on a 8086 ;) - addicted68098, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ohnoes my dot net intaller froze, I will just switch to Linux
- JorgeGT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WinXP / 512Mb / Fx5200 -> crashes in 3 sec. any fix? maybe server overloaded?
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How is this a screensaver if you can actually control it with a mouse/keyboard?
Granted, I havent used one in maybe half a decade, but from what I recall arent they supposed to be a simple animation/color shift that is supposed to keep your screen from burning in and disappear at the instant a keyboard button is pressed or from any mouse movement? And arent they supposed to try to avoid having any still image/pattern stay onscreen for an extended period of time?
They should have just made this into an application. - GvnMcCld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bouncing cows is definitely the best screensaver ever, pure genius.
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