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Was at London Drugs today and saw a screensaver on an iMac....

maclover001

maclover001

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Hey,
I was at London Drugs today (Canadian store that sells electronics and more) and they had an iMac on display with a screensaver that looked like "raining photos". It was pretty much a bunch of photos falling in front of a black background. Do you know what I mean?

Anyway, I looked at it and liked it alot. I went home assuming it was a built-in screensaver in OS X Leopard, so I checked it out. Not there. Just the Ken Burns thing, photos-falling-on-a-table, and mosaic. Maybe this screensaver got disabled in notebooks, or it was just a 3rd party one?

Just photos falling from the top of the screen, in front of a black background. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Thanks
 
maclover001 said:
Hey,
I was at London Drugs today (Canadian store that sells electronics and more) and they had an iMac on display with a screensaver that looked like "raining photos". It was pretty much a bunch of photos falling in front of a black background. Do you know what I mean?

Anyway, I looked at it and liked it alot. I went home assuming it was a built-in screensaver in OS X Leopard, so I checked it out. Not there. Just the Ken Burns thing, photos-falling-on-a-table, and mosaic. Maybe this screensaver got disabled in notebooks, or it was just a 3rd party one?

Just photos falling from the top of the screen, in front of a black background. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Thanks
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Sorry, I haven't seen it. I went through a lot of the screensaver downloads at Apple.com a few months ago and didn't see it then either. In OSX, the photo screensaver has 3 modes. 1 is a slideshow like powerpoint. The second mode is photos falling onto a pile. The third mode is mosaics made up of your photos that turn into a single one of your photos. Be sure to take a look at all 3 modes. If what you saw at London Drugs isn't one of those 3 modes, I suggest checking the downloads at Apple.com.

The attached photo is the dialog with option 2 of the photo screensaver. Note you must pick one of your iphoto events, then you can pick one of 3 modes by clicking one of the 3 "display style" icons just below the preview window. Is this what you were seeing? Photos falling onto a black surface landing in a pile? If so, then yes it's built in...
 

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I saw it again!!

This time it was on an Apple TV. I actually described it wrong. the photos go UP, dot DOWN.

Some are "in front", while others are dimmed to make it look like they are farther back.
 
r0k said:
Sorry, I haven't seen it. I went through a lot of the screensaver downloads at Apple.com a few months ago and didn't see it then either. In OSX, the photo screensaver has 3 modes. 1 is a slideshow like powerpoint. The second mode is photos falling onto a pile. The third mode is mosaics made up of your photos that turn into a single one of your photos. Be sure to take a look at all 3 modes. If what you saw at London Drugs isn't one of those 3 modes, I suggest checking the downloads at Apple.com.

The attached photo is the dialog with option 2 of the photo screensaver. Note you must pick one of your iphoto events, then you can pick one of 3 modes by clicking one of the 3 "display style" icons just below the preview window. Is this what you were seeing? Photos falling onto a black surface landing in a pile? If so, then yes it's built in...
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Sorry nope :(
The photos fly up facing forward, not laying down.

Sorry this is so hard to describe.
 
there is actually a store called London Drugs. Are you serious. Who came up with that name? What's their logo a belt and a syringe?
 
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