Tag: SCREENSAVER

Today's holiday downloads is Free New Year ScreenSaver from Download for Free. It's not the world's most sophisticated saver, but it has falling snow, and anyone who's been following this feature knows I'm a sucker for that. And it plays the Twelve Days of Christmas, which just seems appropriate. Previous 12 Days of holiday downloads for Windows: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, ...

Today, I present you with: the Crispy Christmas screensaver. I have no idea what's crispy about Christmas, but with a name like that, I just had to pass it along. Actually, there's a lot about this screensaver that I just don't get, like the kangaroos jumping out of the piper's horn and the thing that looks suspiciously like a d20 that flies around periodically. That's ok by me, though. It may be ...

All the innovations on the web and the advances in technology, and we still can't come up with non-crappy screensavers easily. Most sites you visit are filled with less-than-par graphics and dumb trial/spam/ad/crapware. This is where you come in. For those who don't know where to go, or what screensavers are decent, with no crapware installation or computer hijacking software tagging along, tell ...

Well, the Mac users got their first dose of Christmas today and we wouldn't want the rest of you to feel left out, so here it is: your first Windows screensaver of the season. 3Planesoft's Christmas saver features a 3D snowman getting ready for the big day, complete with tree-trimming, confetti crackers, and steel drum carols on the old phonograph. Free to try, $10.95 to own. ...

Okay, so the 12 Days of Christmas don't technically start until after Chirstmas, but that wouldn't give you much time to enjoy your yearly dose of on-screen holiday cheer, now would it? So in order to get everyone in the spirit, we present a series of downloads that serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever, other than brightening up that dreary desktop. First up is one of my all-time favorites: ...

This, to me, is a breath of fresh air. Microsoft has a freely available screensaver that mimics the much maligned Blue Screen of Death error screen that Windows gives when it crashes in a big bad way. While other prank screensavers have been made that are similar, this one is unique in that all of the identifiable text on the screen is pulled from the system's actual values - so the BSOD looks as ...

Remember the flying toasters, from the early 1990s? C'mon, cast your memory back, I know you know what I'm talking about. That's right - After Dark, by Berkeley Systems! Those whimsical winged kitchen appliances charmed my parents on my Mac Performa 635 and, I think, helped to chip away at their Luddism just a bit. They flew right into my heart, that's for sure. As the days of screensaver ...

Phill Ryu is making us Windows users jealous (again) with his list of the Top Ten OS X Screensavers. With one $20 shareware exception, all of his picks are free, and all of them are universal binaries and look stunning. I'm particularly intrigued by the Simpsons-inspired Mr. Sparkle screensaver at #9, Hills at #3, and Fenêtres Volantes, which turns your windows into floating, drifting 3D ...

Everyone needs a new screen-saver now and again. Just something to brighten your day, make you smile, or set your PC on fire. That is the purpose of the Fantastic Flame screen-saver. The look of fire fantastically makes newbies think your PC has a bad 1980's boot sector virus, and reminded me of the Matrix Revolutions when Smith is seen wreathed in flame. Chalk this one up to the eye-candy ...

The Official Google Reader Blog has a quick how-to for setting up three different ways to view your Google Reader feeds. Granted, this is rather simplistic for anyone who uses the specific tools they mention- those tools being OS X's feeds screensaver, Firefox's Live Bookmarks, and grabbing podcasts in iTunes. Still, most of the world has yet to truly understand the whole "feed reading" thing, so ...

ScreenSaver Commander is, I imagine, only one of dozens of apps out there (feel free to post your own in the comments) that handles the task of randomizing your Windows screensavers, and I can tell you nothing to recommend it over those others except for the size (275kb) and the price (free). It also lets you. Its other distinguishing feature is that you can configure it to prevent the screensaver ...

This has been around for a while, and I know a couple of designers who use it on a regular basis just because it is gorgeous to behold. Electric Sheep is a screensaver, open source, cross platform, and free. However, it uses distributed computing of a sort to generate massively complex fractal animations that grow over time, and evolve in complexity. It's impossible to describe the images created. ...

IBM developerWorks is running a curious article by Chris Ward that describes how to "Construct and package a Linux LiveCD so that it will ... operate as a standard Windows screensaver." Why would you want to run Linux as a screensaver? Well, mostly because you can, but also "to help remove two obstacles to the wider adoption of free and open source software ... the perceived ...