I’m not a huge fan of screensavers because I prefer that my system turns the monitor automatically off when I’m not working with it. The only purpose of screensavers in my opinion is to show of which is of course only useful if someone else sees the screensaver.
Still I do come frequently upon screensavers that stick out, that are to cool to ignore. The Dropclock screensaver is one of those which does become apparent when you take a look at the size of it. Dropclock has a size of 136 Megabytes ! Now that’s a huge screensaver.
It’s available for Windows XP, Windows Vista with .net framework 1.1 and MAC OSX 10.33 – 10.5. The screensaver is free to try but actually costs $15 which can be paid using Paypal. I’m not sure if the free version is limited because there is no information on the website about it.
I was not able to discover any limitations so far. There are not options available though.
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wow! That’s super cool!
Have you read the license agreement and checked the site out? It says the software may contain viruses and it is up to the user to be sure it is clean. I am not so trustworthy of this site. Have you found any viruses or spyware in the file, or system abnormalities after installation.Thanks
Most license agreements disclaim responsibility for malware which might sneak inside software. I wouldn’t worry about it, at least, not any more than any other software.
cute, but 136megs?? talk about squandering resources and nasty bad code! that is so totally ridiculous.
Not working.
It’s not bad code–the screensaver uses prerendered videos of the numbers dropping into liquid, and being fairly high quality (1024×768 resolution, I think) the videos take up a lot of space. It saves CPU cycles by not having to rerender each animation by just playing videos. I use this screensaver and everyone (including me) thinks it’s fascinating. Plus having the huge numbers on my screen is a useful clock from across the room. And I haven’t had any reaction from my antivirus to it, so I’m pretty sure that any concerns about malware are unfounded.