One of the things I have on my ToDo list for quite a while is integrating feed reading into one of my little fun projects, the Eidle screensaver framework. As I stumbled on Google's feed API yesterday I realized how easy that would be. I saved the sample they provide here to my hard disk, fiddled around with the css styling to make it look more appealing for a screen saver, and set eidle's browser screen properties to use it.
I am quite happy with the outcome, with just an hour of work. In general, with integrating a browser into eidle the possibilities are manyfold, the sky being the limit. Currently, you can only have one browser screen in eidle, but I think of a less static use of the eidle screens for a while already. So stay tuned for news! In the meantime check out eidle and build your own browser based screens. I'm looking forward to hearing about your ideas.
P.S. You can even let Google generate the code for you.
January 24, 2009
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