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- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Dear god, LotsaWater is the most beautiful screensaver I've ever seen.
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I used to use LotsaWater back in college, and I'd often leave my powerbook sitting on a desk while helping others in my digital media class. The screen saver would turn on, and you wouldn't *believe* how many people thought my computer broke. Every single day it was someone new.. "Hey Tom.. umm.. your monitor.. I didn't do it I swear!" Even the professors. Good fun :)
- estrogeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9i've been using it for over 2 years , the last person i suggested it to couldn't use it because it was didn't work for 10.4. - obviously they've updated it in the last 6 months... merry ***** christmas, douchebag!
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Not only is it "not what it's about", it's not even remotely significant.. It's about 2 IQ points form "0MG RITEN BY A G*RL!!1"
*Sighs*
Anyway, http://electricsheep.org/ is a nice screensaver, although I seem to remeber it using quite a bit of CPU up on Windows (Currently I just use the Power-Monitor-Off setting, or psyically turn the monitor of, inplace of a screensaver)
- Ben - benlmusic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's all about soundstream
http://pcheese.net/software/soundstream/ - TomP, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Think I still like Flurry better
- drumnbass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7These are nice - but Electric Sheep still gets my vote.
- kcolwell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This snow-saver is better: http://www.alittlebitofnothingleft.net/snowfall/
I found it here of course http://digg.com/apple/Quartz_Snowfall_Screensaver_For_The_Mac - molochi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Screen savers are making a comeback as Plasmas and LCDs can suffer from image burn. With LCDs you can reverse the effect, but it takes a while and is still annoying.
- slipperman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4LotsWater is beautiful. Performance suffers on the Mini when you turn detail and accuracy up though.. looks great with stock settings though.
- Character0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I completely agree. Why does gender matter at all when picking screen savers? She also left out Electric Sheep, which is in my opinion the best mac screen saver out there (unless of course she means the 3 best best mac-ONLY screen savers). Otherwise its an AMAZING three item list. Good work. Really thorough.
- sandiegojoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4more for fun than any real practical purpose...
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I like screen savers that with give me blackness. I personally like System 47: http://www.mewho.com/system47/ ...
- adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What! No flying toasters?
For the rest of us in the Windows world. Flurry for Windows.
http://www.maddogsw.com/flurry/ - Daveecee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No love for Mr. Sparkle? :(
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19308 - Tatsumaki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Maybe it works with 10.4, but it's PowerPC only. The screensaver doesn't work on my Intel Mac, and using Finder's Get Info on it says it's PowerPC, not Universal.
- yuckymucky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6What about just Xscreensaver... a bunch of cool ones that all run great. http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
I love Engine and Molecule. - kendals, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sometimes, standby isn't the best option if you're downloading files, and lock the desktop, etc.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3comebine this with Backlight fr something really cool looking -- http://freshsqueeze.com/products/freeware/
- koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Her gender doesn't matter. I chose to mention it because female geeks are a rare commodity these days, in my corner of the Internet anyway.
- xt0ph3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can do the background screensaver thing via terminal, btw. On Tiger, just run:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background
Use -module to define a specific module. The path might be different on Panther, but it still works. - Sethwm2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I like the Fenetres Volantes a lot I love the water one. I do not like the snow one as much. This made my day that this was one the front page. Something cool yet useful
- koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like that one better too. The default red-striped background is cool.
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yup: http://digg.com/tech_news/Alex_Albrecht_takes_it_in_the_ass :P
- johnwc723, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3well if its from a female geek... because sex matters so much in digg posts?
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@koregaonpark: What are you doing reading a 15 year-old girls blog?
- motherwell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This list is bogus without 3D Desktop Aquarium:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/3ddesktopaquariumscreensaver.html - Tirial, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I like fluid
- koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have that installed. I hate the URL that keeps popping up though!
- sky1walker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2is it possible to have two screen savers in a desktop? i mean, i want to activate lotsa snow (by moving cursor) in top right hot corner and fenetres volantes in top left corner.i don want to activate both.if i feel like watching the snow I'll activate the top right corner. and if i feel like watching the windows fly, I'll activate FV.is it possible?
- coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also check out IdleWeb.
http://www.edot-studios.com/webgroups2/index.php?menu_item=39
It allows you to have any web page as your screensaver. I use it with the digg swarm page so i can see what stories are hot. - ubermorph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3True story.
-Written by a male geek. Digg me down! - panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Because all of those put together are not nearly as cool as 1 of the ones posted here.
- maverick808, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While all these screen savers are good, the majority consume too much CPU. On my MacBook Pro I find the only cool screen saver that doesn't cause the fans to ramp up is Flurry. If I set it to any of the Lotsa ones or the flying windows one then when I come back after 5 minutes the fans are at full blast. This is a bit annoying when it's just a screensaver that's running.
- DocDEB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All these savers are nice as well as eSheep but I keep comming back to a slide show pointed at my APOD collection.
- Cine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fenêtres Volantes is honestly what I miss the most when using my PC at work. :( Wish it was as easy to find good-looking Windows screensavers.
- heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1C'mon, where's the love for GL Tron? I always find myself rooting for the yellow lightcycle...
http://www.gltron.org - theWrkncacnter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RSS visualizer is the l33t. BBC world news w00t!
- matt0baba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yup i use that one now..its awesome.... just to kill confusion the lines can be desabled also u can change the color to a more suitable blue rather than that burgandy
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I threw a snowy background image on it myself, looks better then a plain color
- pairanoyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hands down, Lotsawater is the absolute very best. FN Awesome!
But damn, it makes my machine COOK...
Cold? Turn your Mac into a space heater with this screen saver! - FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really like The Serene Screen Marine Aquarium, it's pretty lame how you have to pay for it, but it's totally worth it. :)
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok here's some :-*
- NeoRicen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Loving the snow one, it's my new 'saver.
- akashra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What, no ElectricSheep?
- coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, heres another cool OSX screensaver.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/3ddesktopjigsawpuzzlescreensaver.html
It turns the display into a giant jigsaw puzzle. - mikeroySoft, on 10/19/2009, -0/+1I find that when i closed my macbook pro, the screensaver would still kick in and kill my battery... am I on drugs, or shouldn't everything go into hibernate, etc, when i close the laptop?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3OMG, thank you so much! I was just going make a comment if anybody knows where I can find a Windows version.
:D :D :D :D - thebraineater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wasn't there a top 20 (or so) osx screensavers article a while back that had all of these and more? ...why do these top (x) lists always make the front page
- jaybirch1, on 06/13/2008, -0/+0how about http://www.screenspro.com
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