Facebook released RSS updates of friend statuses, so, me want play.
geektool is a utility for OSX that allows you to throw any piece of information you want over your desktop’s wallpaper and under any running application.
here’s what a part of my desktop looks like:
full of valueable information, and now friend’s Facebook status too, until it starts annoying me and I pull it off.
it takes 5 lines of Python code:
import feedparser d = feedparser.parse(“http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?….”) e = d.entries[0:5] for x in e:
- print x[‘title’]*