Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Set your Mac screensaver to get the Schieffer Student Calendar

If you have a Mac running OS X 10.4 or later, you can set up your screensaver to show the Schieffer Student Calendar automatically. Here's how:

  1. Open Safari and visit http://feeds.feedburner.com/schiefferschoolevents and click Bookmarks > Add Bookmark.
  2. Click on the Apple menu (top left) and choose System Preferences...
  3. Click on Desktop & Screensaver and select RSS Visualizer from the list.
  4. Click options and scroll down to "Schieffer School of Journalism Student Calendar". Select it and click Done.
  5. Set your Start Screensaver options, then close System Preferences.
Whenever your Mac shows the screensaver, you'll be able to see a current list of events for the Schieffer School.