Maybe it is just my impression, but screensavers seem to have lost much of their popularity in recent years. We have already discussed that screensavers do not really save the screen from burn-ins anymore, and that they are more an aesthetic choice nowadays. Multi Photo Quotes Builder is a new program by Mouse of Donation [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Both Windows 7 and Vista include default screensavers. These screensavers are fairly attractive as well. The only problem is that you cannot customize them by default and that makes them a little less interesting. By using a free application called System Screensavers Tweaker, you can easily configure screensavers along with some registry alterations. This will [...]

Categories: Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

The desktop screensaver is one of those gray areas that does nothing for productivity but people always seem to want to tweak, change, and otherwise toil over. For some it’s just a way to save some power. For others, it’s a requirement (by law) that screens lock after a certain period of time. For some [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source

Screensavers are not really that useful anymore unless you are connected to an old computer monitor. Today’s top reason for running screensavers is plain and simple entertainment. Yes, there are users out there who believe that it is still necessary to run screensavers to protect the computer monitor but that’s probably not the main reason [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Most of us go away from our computers. When we do we don’t much care to come back to see our screen just the way we left it. We have been trained that a screensaver should take the place of our work or our play on our monitors. I have been asked numerous times “How [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Of all the currently released Twitter screensavers Twitsaver is definitely one of the more interesting ones. Unlike Twitter Screensavers like Flitter or TwittEarth that concentrate on the locations and messages that are send by Twitter users Twitsaver does concentrate on images that get referenced by Twitter users. The homepage does not contain information about the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Multi Photo Quotes is a screensaver designed for multi monitor computer systems – but working on one monitor systems as well – that can display images, quotes or a combination thereof. At its core stands the possibility to display images. An image can be displayed across all computer monitors, on one monitor in fullscreen or [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I almost decided to create a top x list of the nerdiest screensavers on the planet but decided against it. You get a simple list of some of the nerdiest screensavers around, many compatible to Windows PCs and Macs. Screensavers nowadays are more for showing off than to really save the computer screen. Many users [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment

Animated desktop backgrounds are a hot topic since Microsoft made them popular with the release of Dreamscene for Windows Vista Ultimate. We covered ways to use screensavers as Vista wallpapers in the past but the following method works both in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Screen2Dream is a portable application for Windows XP or Windows [...]

Categories: Software, Windows