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What are some good (or great) mac screensavers?

ZildjianKX

ZildjianKX

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Just curious if anyone knows of any. I was using Serene Screen Aquarium for awhile, but it started to bug me since it made the fans on my G5 constantly spin... I guess too much CPU usage.

Can anyone recommend any? :)
 
I was looking for one

I don't know if I'll ever find it. Maybe someone can help me out.

It looks like you're swimming through an underwater cave. It looks gorgeous. It can't be free, but I'd like to know what it is nonetheless. Any ideas? Or anyone know where I could go to ask this question?
 
Here are my faves

Here's a list I compiled for a friend new to the Mac world. Enjoy!

Screen Savers:

Here are links to my faves:

Galaxy
Gears
More Gears
SuperQuadrics
- http://www.epicware.com/macosxsavers.html

Helios
Hypertorus
StonerView
- http://spazioinwind.libero.it/tpecorella/uselesssoft/software.htm

Abstract Motion
- http://www.syntheticblue.com/abstract.html

Cubes
- http://www.alefnot.com/projects/cubes/

Euphoria
- http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Euphoria.html

Flocks
- http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Flocks.html

FluffyCubes
- http://www.korruptor.demon.co.uk/screensavers.html

Fluid
- http://www.concepthouse.com/products/Fluid/

Flux
- http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Flux.html

GLTerrain
- http://www.tensten.net/glterrain.html

IGS Twisted
http://www.djbradanderson.com/twisted/

iX Xirtram
- http://illuminex.com/software/screensavers/xirtam.html

Marine Aquarium
- http://www.serenescreen.com/product/maquariumx/

Old Glory (replace the map graphic to whatever you want)
- http://homepage.mac.com/mtrent/FileSharing.html

Plasma
- http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Plasma.html

PlasmaTunnel
- http://www.fruitz-of-dojo.de/php/download.php4?dlnr=1

Rastafied
- http://www.fruitz-of-dojo.de/php/download.php4?dlnr=4

Red Pill
(an alternative to ix Xirtram)
- http://meta.ath0.com/software/

SaveHollywood
- http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood.html

SkyFly
- http://www.dekorte.com/Software/OSX/ScreenSavers/

SnowSaver
- http://meta.ath0.com/software/

SolarWinds
- http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Solarwinds.html

StormView
- http://homepage.mac.com/takashi_hamada/Acti/MacOSX/StormView/index.html

StreetCrossing
- http://mapage.noos.fr/sensiblemedia/streetcrossing/uk3.htm

TriVectus Warp Field
- http://www.trivectus.com/DL.T?warp


A list of OS X screen savers:
- http://www.desktopper.net/screeneffect/index.htm


To play screen savers on your desktop:
(cool when showing your Mac to people)
SaverLab
- http://www.dozingcat.com/
 
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Re: I was looking for one

Originally posted by The Deej
I don't know if I'll ever find it. Maybe someone can help me out.

It looks like you're swimming through an underwater cave. It looks gorgeous. It can't be free, but I'd like to know what it is nonetheless. Any ideas? Or anyone know where I could go to ask this question?
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You're talking about Plasma Tunnel, I'll bet. Scroll down in this thread for a link...

And you're right -- it's a beautiful, hypnotic, detailed screensaver. My all time OSX favorite.
 
Flurry is my favourite mac (and Windows) screensaver.

Other than flurry, I haven't seen many others.

(and thats right I said Flurry for Windows, someone ported it to PC with the creator of flurry's permisson)
 
i always love these screensaver threads. :D

i love iX Xirtam (a matrix code sort of screensaver, metioned twice already.)

but what's the 'red pill Matrix' screesaver someone mentioned? sounds good.

fluid is also a nice one, i'll have to get version 2. should run a bit better on my new PB than it did on my TiBook 667 :p

oh, i just saw red pill in that massive list of links. i'll have to try that and plazma tunnel... :D
 
Originally posted by cb911
i always love these screensaver threads. :D

i love iX Xirtam (a matrix code sort of screensaver, metioned twice already.)

but what's the 'red pill Matrix' screesaver someone mentioned? sounds good.

fluid is also a nice one, i'll have to get version 2. should run a bit better on my new PB than it did on my TiBook 667 :p

oh, i just saw red pill in that massive list of links. i'll have to try that and plazma tunnel... :D
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that red pill screensaver works well. Haven't ran it in 10.2.8 yet, but 2.6 works.
 
wow. there's some awesome screensavers at http://loops.pardeike.net/. they say that they only make you pay because the cost of hosting them got too much.

from Loops:

if you can find the files somewhere else on the internet, great! You would still need to get the code to register the screensaver and to remove the startup reminder. It's just that we don't allow you to download them for free from our site.
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someone correct me if i'm wrong, but to me it looks like they wouldn't mind if you could get them from somewhere else, it's just that they can't afford to host give it away for free. so does anyone know somewhere you could get them for free? i've had a quick look but couldn't find anything... :(
 
Oh man fluid is so awesome!

I wish I had found it earlier.

I have a question for the people that use it. What is the best theme to use? What do you use?
 
You can also have your screensaver set as a desktop pattern. I for one like to set Beach and have it pan in and out. Very cpu intensive and I wouldn't recommend trying it if you've got less than 32mb of vram. Seems there's been some problems with it not working in 10.2.8 and some builds of 10.3 but no problems here so maybe it's isolated.

Backlight:
http://freshlysqueezedsoftware.com/products/freeware.fss
 
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