System Utilities > Screensavers

Description: Let it snow on your desktop and have Santa and his reindeer fly around your screen for that Extra Festive Season Cheer, while snow piles up on top of your windows (really!). There's a polar bear somewhere too.What's new in this version:improved performanceuniversal binary (ppc and intel)

Keywords: windows desktop screen 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2150 kb; Updated: 2007-11-25

Description: 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.What's new in this version:New high quality middle option for 3D carvings.New glow effect graphic option.New carving preview window in the options screen.Reduced stuttering on slower computers during carving changes.6 additional default carvings added.Fixed a bug related to the options screen that would crash System Preferences.

Keywords: screen saver graphic system screen window create effect saver 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2355 kb; Updated: 2007-10-29

Description: 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. Skyrocket is available in English, French, and Japanese.What's new in this version:Ported the mouse controls from the Windows version to the Mac version.Skyrocket is now built with the FreeALUT library, since Apple has deprecated ALUT in Mac OS X's implementation of OpenAL.The new minimum OS version is 10.4.Finally, the PowerPC version of Skyrocket no longer plays sound effects unless Mac OS X 10.5 or later is installed. I'm sorry I had to make this change, but it solves the PPC sound problems once and for all, and it reduces the screen saver's disk space.

Keywords: screen savers screen saver windows library effects screen saver space 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5632 kb; Updated: 2007-10-25

Description: Lights Out is an application designed to give users more control over Apple's Energy Saver. It helps solve the problem of Energy Saver insomnia. Many software packages, scanners, and other peripherals interfere with the Mac's normal sleeping patterns. Lights Out offers a secondary idle timer to put your Mac to sleep even when Energy Saver fails to do so. The application also offers hot corners to instantly put your Mac to sleep, or keep your Mac awake. Lights Out offers the ability to customize Energy Saver settings for individual applications. This can be useful for long downloads, iTunes streams, cd or dvd playback, etc. Lights Out can even logout or shutdown your Macintosh after a specified idle period.

Keywords: application downloads control saver 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 4301 kb; Updated: 2007-10-21

Description: One of the most amazing insects on our planet, the Butterfly begins life clinging to a tree branch as a Caterpillar. After a time hibernating, they emerge from their cocoon and spread their beautiful wings to the sun. We often take these creatures for granted, but have you every stopped to amaze at the intricate shape of their wings? Their beautiful iridescent coloring?Butterflyz gives you a bevy of beautifully rendered 3D Butterflies. Modeled after actual specimens, their textures are based on photographs of the real things! (Except for the Purple one; that I invented per my daughter's request).You may use Butterflyz for FREE, but if you register for $5.00, you get six additional Butterflyz, the "View Desktop" mode, and the "Custom Background/Color" option!

Keywords: desktop amazing color free tree time view 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9; File size: 2150 kb; Updated: 2007-05-28

Description: Watch two-dimensional geometric trees grow in real-time.

Keywords: watch time 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 67 kb; Updated: 2007-05-16

Description: Fields is a small force field simulator for Mac OS X in the form of a screen saver. Particles react to each creating interesting visual patterns. Lots of parameters can be set to achieve different visual results in the simulation.

Keywords: screen saver screen saver form 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 128 kb; Updated: 2007-05-15

Description: This is a screensaver module for Mac OS X.It's a quick and dirty port of the X-Window screensaver.

Keywords: screensaver window 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2; File size: 46 kb; Updated: 2007-05-13

Description: LittleView is a program that plays your Quicktimemovies.Make playlists.Play in fullscreen.Make playlists to use in Front Row.Play movies directly from a video iPod.

Keywords: movies video play 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 426 kb; Updated: 2007-05-08

Description: MacHouse Quotes Pro 2 is the next version of MacHouse Quotes. It is a screen saver that displays over 275 random, uplifting quotes on your screen. I made the screen saver originally just for me. The screen saver contains some of my most-loved quotes. When I was sitting around with my friends one night brain storming how to raise money for graduate school, they suggested I sell my screen saver. I offer a demo version for free and a full version for only $10. The demo version contains 10 quotes, the full version has 275 quotes!

Keywords: screen saver screen saver free 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2; File size: 15053 kb; Updated: 2007-05-05