MobileMe and RSS screen saver missing in Snow Leopard!

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MobileMe and RSS screen saver missing in Snow Leopard!

In Leopard, in Desktop & Screen Saver, under Pictures, There is a screen saver called MobileMe and RSS, which allowed you to subscribe to picture RSS feeds and would display them as a slideshow when the screen saver activated.

I found that screen saver option is no longer available in Snow Leopard. I thought I would just go to a Leopard machine and copy the screen saver file to Snow Leopard, but its not in the screen saver folder (Drive -> System -> Library -> Screen Savers).

Why did apple remove this functionality? Is there anyway to get it back?

Macbook 13" and Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 3, 2009 8:36 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 16, 2009 10:38 AM in response to lagreca

These features are still available, but It appears that Apple redesigned the UI for these features. In the Desktop and Screensaver preferences window, under the Apple section click on RSS Visualizer and then Options. Scroll all the way down the list to the bottom where you will see an item labeled "MobileMe and RSS". Click the add button and select MobileMe Galleries. That will bring up a place to enter the MobileMe user name of the person who you want to subscribe to. Hope this helps.

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Sep 16, 2009 1:55 PM in response to Ranger Ric

I followed your instructions, and but don't see the same thing.

First of all, I don't use mobile me, and am NOT trying to subscribe to anything that has to do with mobile me. I am trying to display pictures from an RSS feed as the screen saver. This was possible with 10.5, but missing in 10.6.

There is a RSS Visualizer in 10.6, but it only displays RSS text feeds, not images like the previous version did.

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Sep 16, 2009 2:10 PM in response to lagreca

Sorry, I get it now. My issue was similar but not the same as yours. I have never subscribed to picture-only RSS feeds so I guess I can't address your issue. As I said, I was trying to have other peoples' MM galleries show up in the list of screen savers, which I was finally able to do using my instructions (you don't need to belong to MobileMe to do this by the way, all you need is the username of a friend who does subscribe and has set up a MM gallery - for example, my username is "rbarline" in case you want to check out my "public slide show" gallery as a screen saver ... :~)

Now I am curious about picture-only RSS feeds and would like to try one as a screen saver. Can you send me a feed URL to try? Maybe there is a way after all?

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lagreca Author

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Oct 8, 2009 1:35 PM in response to lagreca

I FINALLY figured out how to add RSS picture feeds to the screensaver:

http://blog.bignetonline.com/archives/170

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