screensavers
Design
PhotoJoy Turns Your Pics Into Screensavers, Collages, Widgets
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Photo gallery application PhotoJoy turns your digital pictures into collages, desktop widgets or 3D screensavers with just a few clicks. It’s the type of application that your mum would like. More »
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MonitorES Pauses Media, Turns Off Monitor When You Lock Your PC
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Tiny utility MonitorES pauses your media player, turns off your monitor and sets Google Talk to away whenever you lock your PC. More »
Design
MappedUp Screensaver Visualizes RSS News On A World Map
2:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Eye-candy RSS reader/screensaver MappedUp plots the location of RSS items on a world map with a nice visual effect—so you can use the screensaver for more than just pictures. Once you’ve installed and enabled the screensaver—and stepped away long enough for the screensaver to show up—you’ll see RSS items show up on the world map in little balloons indicating the origin of the news story. You can customise the items that show up by creating a free account and choosing feeds or tags to display—or add any of your own feeds.< MappedUp is a free download for Windows or Mac OS X only. If you want to learn something instead of reading the news, you can always use Wikipedia as your screensaver instead. MappedUp More »
Design
MultiPhotoQuotes Plasters Your Multi-Monitor Setup With WitAand Photos
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: MultiPhotoQuotes is a feature packed replacement for the basic My Pictures Slideshow screensaver included with Windows. If you’re running a multi-monitor setup, your favourite feature in MultiPhotoQuotes will definitely be the support for your extra screen space. The basic My Pictures screensaver will only put one picture on a single screen at any given time, which even on a small multi-monitor setup leaves a lot of empty space. MultiPhotoQuotes fills the entire available screen space with a grid of photos. If you like a good quotable every now and then, you can keep the quotes feature on to randomly sprinkle quotes from the included quote books. More »
Design
Free Mac Screensavers
11:02PM Gina Trapani | Macworld’s Dan Frakes shows off his favourite screensavers for Mac OS X in this video clip and many (but not all) are free, including AlphaBabySaver, Big Time Screen Saver, Econ, and Euphoria. Hit the Macworld site to get the full list of recommended ’savers. Personally I’m a huge fan of the built-in Word of the Day ’saver on my Mac. Do you use screensavers any more? Which is your favourite? Let us know in the comments. Screen savers live! [Macworld] More »
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Create Custom Screensavers From Your Videos Or Photos
6:00AM Adam Pash | Video tutorial weblog Tinkernut demonstrates how to create custom screensavers from your own collection of digital photos or videos. You’ll need to download a couple of free apps to get started—namely Format Factory and WG-Screensaver Creator—and then it’s simply a matter of plugging in the media you want to convert. Granted, most operating systems have a screensaver-from-folder feature for rolling your own photo screensavers, but this method does video and gives you more control over what you see. How To Create A Screensaver [Tinkernut] More »
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Screensavers For Multiple Monitors
5:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Running a screensaver on multiple monitors can be a tricky affair. The default Windows screensavers work just fine with multiple monitors, but you didn’t install dual 22″ wide screens at your workstation to blow away your coworkers with the expansiveness of your scrolling marque text messages. Fortunately there are several solutions to dealing with the quirkiness of Windows and multi-monitor screensavers. More »
Design
Wikipedia Screen Saver
7:00AM Gina Trapani | Wikipedia lovers, you can get a random page from the ‘pedia to just show up automatically on your PC with the Wikipedia Screen Saver. Sometimes you get pretty empty pages in need of work, other times you learn something pithy and new without lifting a finger. Choose Wikipedia from the screen saver drop-down in Display Properties after you install it. [via Ghacks] More »
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Shutdown Screensaver Turns Off Your PC When You’re Not Using It
2:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application Shutdown Screensaver counts the seconds until it automatically shuts down your computer. When you run the screensaver, it immediately starts counting down from two minutes. When it hits zero, your computer shuts down. If you stop the screensaver before it hits zero, your computer doesn’t shutdown. This isn’t a screensaver you’d want to install on most computers, since it (unfortunately) doesn’t have any options other than brute-force shutdown, but if you’re responsible for a computer that you always forget to shut off, this one could come in handy. If it’s too heavy handed for you, you may be better off getting more in tune with your PC’s power options. As is this is a simple app that does what it says, but if you’re aware of a similar alternative with more features, we’re all ears in the comments. Shutdown Screensaver [4 Neurons via Shell Extension City] More »
