I just started using
Rainmeter, a program that can can display system stats and such on your desktop. I got a couple of "skins" for it, namely
Enigma and
Hud Vision. But, they didn't have quite everything that I wanted, so I made my own skin - a little one that displays someone's most recent tweet from
Twitter. It's still in progress, and I want to add more stuff to it, but here's what I've got so far as a
.txt file.
I still want to make it look better, be able to do more than the most recent tweet, make the date look less weird, and maybe add some other stuff. I'm learning as I'm going though; I never knew anything about parsing webpages before I started. The only problem so far is that Twitter limits the number of page-loads per hour from an IP to 100, so it can't update very often (I currently have it set for every 10 minutes).