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The best known screen saver.
Download After Dark is the best-selling screensaver that has delighted Macintosh users worldwide since 1989. "After Dark X + Fish" adds the popular "Fish", "Mowing Man" and "Mandelbrot" modules to the existing "Space Toasters", "Starry Night" and other user favorites. More than just a screensaver, "After Dark X + Fish" offers hours of entertainment for all Macintosh users.
Download Home Page Anemona is a particle-based screensaver. It suggests the movement of a Sea Anemone.
Home Page A snowman, snow and an optional clock. Have a big, fat, stinking Christmas.
Home Page breveCreatures is a screensaver that simulates the evolution of virtual creatures in a physically simulated 3D world. Beginning initially with random creatures, the screensaver uses a genetic algorithm to develop creatures capable of realistic locomotion behaviors. The concept and algorithms implemented in breveCreatures are based on Karl Sims' seminal work, "Evolving Virtual Creatures". Because the screensaver uses an evolutionary algorithm, it may take a long time - hours, or even days - before effective locomotion behaviors can be observed. Each time it is run, the screensaver will save its progress and continue from where it left off.
Home Page A simple digital clock screensaver. FEATURES * Adjustable clock font style, size, and color * Customizable clock format * Clock can remain motionless, or move around the screen using different effects
Home Page This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh.
Home Page A great screen saver which runs as an application and plays After Dark modules.
Home Page When DashSaver is selected as a User's screensaver, when the computer is inactive after the specified time as set in the Screen Saver preference pane, the dashboard is displayed and the user's desktop is hidden.
Home Page 2 Screensaver in 1! Watch dolphins jump and dive in a 3D ocean environment, OR have them jumping and diving on the screen you were just working on, or any other background image you like!
Home Page DeskToy is a screen saver for Mac OS X. It renders an animated scene of a common perpetual motion desk toy: a collection of concentric circular pendula linked together. There are lots of ways to configure the view: you can change the number of rings, put the camera in the center, speed up or slow down the frame rate. You can also enable damping to watch the pendula gradually become still in the horrible way of all things in the fullness of time. Do so only at the risk of profound existential despair.
Home Page An efficient well done screen saver which will play back slideshows of your favorite pics or QuickTime movies. Also has some security features ideal for those just trying to keep the kids from destroying too much while you're not around.
Home Page This software owes its name to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated 'sheep' appears. Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep. Every fifteen minutes 24/7 a new sheep is born and distributed to all clients for display. Each sheep is an animated fractal flame. This program is recommended only if you have a high-bandwidth, always-on connection to the internet such as DSL or cable modem. For best results, let it run overnight to collect a whole flock. Laptop users might have to adjust their power settings to accomplish this.
Home Page Euphoria is a psychedelic OpenGL ScreenSaver for Mac OS X. Euphoria is a creation of Terence M. Welsh. It was ported to Mac OS X by Stephane Sudre.
Home Page A cool screen saver that displays your favorite sentences, lyrics... fading in and out like caption. Text font, fade speed and freeze time can be customized to fit your needs!
Home Page You are making no use of your windows ? Fenetre volantes puts them in flight ! After some idle time that can be set in the System Preferences, the windows take off the screen and flutter in the void. On a mouse move, the windows immediately come back and stick to their original position.
Home Page Fireworks screensavers have always held a fascination for me, from the earliest versions I saw first on MS-DOS, to the newer ones in Linux. Unfortunately, I've never really been totally happy with any of the others, because I could never control the parameters of the simulators enough to make them look the way I see them. Well, I've been writing particle simulators for a couple of years now, and I thought I'd apply that to my own fireworks screen saver. So here it is! You can control all the parameters of the simulator, including gravity, the mass of the various particles, the air resistance, etc. Just click the "Configure" button in the screen saver prefs.
Home Page Fireflies is a psychedelic OpenGL ScreenSaver for Mac OS X. Fireflies is a creation of Terence M. Welsh. It was ported to Mac OS X by Stephane Sudre.
Home Page Quartz Extreme rendered flowers.
Home Page Fluid 2.6 brings a few new rendering capabilities to the table. Most exciting is the ability to use video feeds as the reflection for the churning liquid. This means that you can now see yourself and your surroundings in the fluid if you have a video camera (an iSight, for instance). Fluid offers many rendering styles to choose from and they are even better than before. Fluid now has particle rendering, contour outlining, countour filling, and streakline rendering styles to make your Themes unique. Fluid now has liquid that is actually 3-dimensional and shows reflections. Fluid now comes pre-installed with a set of Themes so that you don't have to install them seperately if you don't want to. The "Themes" capabilities are still there and have been improved with preview icons.
Home Page About 2 years ago, I found some OpenGL code on the internet. I spent a weekend playing around with it, and though that it would be cool to have as a screensaver. I released Flurry 1.0 for free, but asked that users send me a postcard from where they live if they liked it alot. Flurry is now version 1.4, and Apple has even included Flurry as the default screensaver in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. Their version is not as customisable as the Flurry you can download from here, but both versions include the Altivec code Apple wrote for me (Flurry was used at the WWDC 2002 by Apple's Architecture and Performance Group as a demo for optimisation techniques).
Home Page Flux is a psychedelic OpenGL ScreenSaver for Mac OS X. Flux is a creation of Terence M. Welsh. It was ported to Mac OS X by Stephane Sudre.
Home Page Quartz Extreme rendered fish.
Home Page Small screensaver displaying flying toasters.
Home Page Goldfish Aquarium is the first product released by Prolific Publishing, Inc. in the new LifeGlobe product line. Building upon and improving the technology first demonstrated in Marine Aquarium, Goldfish Aquarium demonstrates the latest look and capabilities of your computer. Dynamic backgrounds, realistic fish movement, amazing animation are the latest enhancements to this visually stunning line of Entertainment Software. It must be downloaded and seen to be believed.
Home Page Screensaver similar to the classic game of Tron.
Home Page Helios is a particle attraction/repulsion screen saver where "blobs" emit and receive multi-colored particles. It's difficult to describe, but as some have said about the screen saver, it's pretty insane.
Home Page Gently drift over rolling grassy hills, or speed around over a green savanna.
Home Page Holiday Lights places festive bulbs around the edge of your screen, plays cheery background music, and includes a screen saver. Includes bulbs and screensavers suitable for any holiday.
Add-On Bulbs Home Page Hyperspace is a screen saver that sends its users on a virtual trip through a wormhole, just like the ones in some sci-fi TV shows and movies. Meanwhile, nebulas and stars fly by.
Home Page IcoNVader is a funny screen saver which will unleash an invasion of icons on your Mac. They will bounce around, flip over and finally explode in a kind of soap bubble effect. It was initially released for Christmas and features an appropriate Christmas theme, but don't be fooled for those icons came to invade our world!
Home Page IdleWeb is a screen saver module for Mac OS X that allows you to view websites while you aren't using your computer. URL's can also be dragged to the list of bookmarks from Safari.
Home Page Jack-O-Lantern is a screen saver that displays a carved 3D pumpkin. The pumpkin is recreated in loving detail right down to the flickering candle inside. Several carving designs are included, and you can even create your own to be displayed. No getting your hands dirty carving the real thing. Artificial pumpkin smell not included.
Home Page Quartz Extreme rendered swirling jellywing.
Home Page Kaleidoscope is meant to be used with a camera. It takes live video from it, and it creates a virtual kaleidoscope with it. The kaleidoscope can be set to rotate automatically at a user defined speed. The kaleidoscope can also be set to use still pictures as image input.
Home Page This is a screensaver which displays an animated version of M.C. Escher's Print Gallery drawing.
Home Page This screensaver displays an animated blob of liquid glass that flows and deforms according to various patterns.
Home Page This one draws snowflakes falling down your screen. Simple enough, but the oh-so-clever part is that it uses a semi-physical model (that I pulled out of my ass) for growing each snowflake, meaning every snowflake is unique (as well they should be!) and also that it uses a quite a bit of processing power. But that's the price you pay for individuality!
Home Page This screensaver renders a fairly realistic water effect over your desktop, showing it distorted through the wavy surface of the water as raindrops fall on the surface.
Home Page A simple Screensaver for Mac OS X which displays the current phase of the moon, along with some detailed lunar information.
Home Page MacDim is a little, beautiful screensaver for Macintosh. It takes almost no memory. With MacDim screens that have not been used for a while can be dimmed. Monitors that support power saving can also be turned off. To dim up the screen(s), just move the mouse or press a key. MacDim does not do any annoying sounds when undimming from powersaving mode.
Home Page The third collection consists of 22 screensavers, 17 OpenGL accelerated savers and 5 non -accelerated savers.
Home Page You've seen aquarium programs before, but you've never seen anything like this! Marine Life so vibrant you won't believe your eyes. Indescribable realism! Theses fish are actual 3D Models, not flat images dragged accross the screen.
Download Home Page Quartz Extreme rendered microbes.
Home Page This is a clone of the classic Moire screensaver for the Mac.
Home Page Money floats around the screen in 3D. Includes US Dollars, and Australian Dollars. Many more currencies available to download straight from the Settings screen (full registered version only).
Home Page A screen saver for the movie.
Home Page Neko.saver is a screensaver module for MacOS X. It shows the cats playing on the screen while the screensaver is running. It is a MacOS X port and screensaver version of 'xneko' application originally created for the X-Window system, and is based on Michael Trent's Rhapsody port for FreeSpace module.
Home Page Night Lights is a Screen Saver that displays a rotating image of the Earth showing night time urban illumination (city lights). This image of Earth's city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth's surface.
Home Page Osirus generates hypnotic circular patterns, which randomly forms various disc shaped imagery. Controls are provided for different color schemes, the speed, transparency, refresh rate, line thickness, motion, fade, and full screen options.
Home Page The grand Planets Screen Saver.
Home Page A nice screen saver which simulates traveling through a tunnel.
Home Page When the game begins, the score is set to the current time. The left side's score is the current hour (in 24-hour time), and the right side's score is the current minute. Then, the right side scores about once a minute to keep up with the real clock. When it gets to 59, the next score makes it wrap around to 00, and the left side will score shortly afterwards to bring the hour forward. At midnight, left's score wraps around to 00.
Home Page - Comes in the form of an application and a screen saver - Scalable clocks drawn with Quartz 2D - Analogue, digital, and some imaginative clock designs - Choose a background image for each clock - Options to customize each clock - Full-screen mode - Round or transparent clock windows - Core Graphics layers used for more efficient drawing - Choose a font for the digital clock.
Home Page Quartz Extreme rendered rain forest.
Home Page The original Matrix code used in the movie was designed by Simon Whiteley of Animal Logic. The representation in this screensaver was re-drawn based on sample artwork, and may not precisely match the real code. This screensaver is not an official "Matrix" product. Village Roadshow Films and Warner Brothers are not responsible for anything this screensaver does.
Download Runs Mac OS X screensaver modules in regular windows. It allows you to run any number of modules simultaneously, pause, single step, and save animations as QuickTime movies, and allows you to use a screensaver as your desktop background (see documentation for details and limitations).
Home Page Scattered Flurries is a screensaver that shows snow falling gently in the breeze.
Home Page Its primary function is to display your current uptime (how long your mac has been turned on), which is good for impressing your windows using friends. ShowOff will also display the current time, who is currently logged onto your system [not relevant unless your mac is on a network with remote login turned on] as well as the system load. As of 0.54 it will log your best uptime for the competitive.
Home Page Loads your favorite photos from flickr.com or iPhoto and shuffles them Get new photos everytime the saver starts Favorites: save different settings Skip pictures you don't like Save pictures to a folder or iPhoto you like by just pressing a key Choose from beautiful transitions Offline mode
Home Page This is the SkyFly GL demo from SGI put inside a screen saver with a small change to make the view follow one of the paper planes.
Home Page There's fireworks screen savers, and then there's Skyrocket. Technology has come a long way since the days of the Pyro! screen saver, and Skyrocket shows how far we've come by rendering fireworks in 3D. Oh, and it also has sound effects to go with the fireworks. And unlike some other fireworks screen savers, this one won't change your screen's resolution.
Home Page Just as implied, smoke.
Download Home Page Snö is a useless application that makes snow fall over your desktop. Snö is the Swedish word for snow.
Home Page This is a Cocoa OpenGL screensaver. It's modeled on the pretty falling snowflakes animation that Apple have been running on an iMac in the window of the local Apple store. (Theirs is actually a QuickTime movie, and not available to customers. People have asked.)
So what happens is, the screen fills with water and the fish start swimming around. Sounds simple, but it wasn't simple to make. The effect tho, is well worth the effort. It's far more "3D" than any other aquarium screensaver I've seen because the fish swim in all directions, getting closer or further away and all over the place. Watch it and see!
Home Page Soundstream is a Mac OS X screensaver created with Quartz Composer. It consists of a randomly moving particle generator (reminiscent of Flurry) that reacts to the sound level picked up by your computer's microphone. Soundstream looks great as a replacement to the iTunes visualizer. For best results, you should adjust either your microphone input level in the Input tab of the Sound preference pane or the Soundstream sensitivity setting.
Home Page Demonstrates the immersive 3D star field effect, preserving settings, embedding resources, fly-by animations, etc.
Home Page Watch a screen saver unlike any you have ever seen before as space fleets wage war amongst the stars right before your eyes. Ships chase down their enemies and avoid firing on their comrades. They explode into pieces of debris which then explode in turn, making for a fireworks display like none other. It's like watching your favourite science fiction movie, you just have to see it to believe it! The trial version only contains a handful of the ships that are available in the full version. Check out the website to see all the ships and fleets that are currently available.
Home Page A set of 10 candylicious screensavers taken from Plasq's set of Visualisers in Rax.
Home Page I spent ages trying to make them actually fly like butterflies. Sort of random and fluttery. When I looked at a couple of other butterfly screen savers they all flew in a very basic "flap... flap... flap" fashion which made them look like a wind up aeroplane kinda deal. Still not sure I've got it quite right, but I do think it's cool to watch. And the way they land on both the desktop and the "glass" of your monitor I think looks nice too. I dunno, I just like it!
Home Page The Matrix code in 3D.
Home Page Long thought to be destroyed and lost forever, Flying Toasters lives in the form of ToasterClone. UNEASYsilence is proud to announce the release of ToasterClone - the classic flying toasters screensaver raised from the ashes, recompiled, and redistributed for your own personal use.
Home Page Ultimate 3D Aquarium Screen Saver offers you realistic 3D virtual fish swimming around a fully 3D environment! They swim around the obstacles as the camera moves through the tank! It truly is like no other aquarium screen saver you have seen before.
Home Page Video-Freaker is a simple screen saver which plays back movie files (AVI, MOV, MPEG) from a folder you specify in the savers preference panel. If it can not find any movies, it montages a lame image over and over again. you don't want that.
Home Page Visage allows you to easily and safely customize the appearance of your Mac. The preference pane's simple interface contains five tabs, each of which will help you customize a different part of your Mac. You can run screen savers as your desktop background, customize your login panel, personalize system alerts, and more! Visage keeps track of Apple's default settings for every customization, so you can easily switch back to the original settings at any time.
Download Home Page Wallsaver is a Cocoa application (written in AppleScript) that allows users to run their screen savers as their desktop wallpaper. After hours of (unsuccessful) Googling for a program that would easily do this, I (Nil Thacker) decided to test my skills and write one myself. It took a while, but I think I got it. Key features of Wallsaver: - 1. Wallsaver doesn't have to be running 24/7. You can launch Wallsaver, activate your screen saver, and then quit the program. Restoring your desktop is just as easy. Open up Wallsaver, click "Restore", and you're set. - 2. It's simple. The original application was only 30 lines of code. - 3. It's cool. Now you can show off the full potential of your Mac by letting it power through a task that would bring a PC to its knees. - 4. It's Universal. Universal Binary, that is.
Home Page xBack is a utility that allows you replace your desktop picture with a screen saver. With xBack, you can bring your desktop to life.
Home Page XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System.
Home Page A collaborative art project.
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