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 Sunday, August 22, 2004

RSS Screen Saver for Libraries!

C# Express RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit 

"One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS Screen saver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll find the RSS Screen saver a great way to start programming.

In a nutshell, the RSS Screen saver is a screen saver that lets you select and validate an RSS feed, select a background directory for images to loop through, and the screensaver will loop through the items in the RSS feed." [Dan Fernandez's Blog, via del.icio.us/tag/rss]

I'm not enough of a programmer to run with this one, but this could be a very cool tool for libraries. Imagine being able to display your current news on your workstations via the screensaver in real-time without any manual intervention. Just update your "what's new" blog and it magically appears on all of your workstations. Major, major woot with a happy dance thrown in for good measure!

 

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