Word Clock screen saver has the time for you

If you're in the market for a new screen saver, and enjoy things like tha's DropClock, check out Simon Heys' (less processor-intensive) Word Clock. It's a wonderful typographic screen saver that shows the time in a clever way, and is enjoying a meme echo among designers right now.

It's extremely flexible: you can customize the colors, position and typography of the clock. Plus, it's available in 18 languages. There's a Flickr pool showing it in action.

If you're worried about burn-in, you might want to take a pass, but if you love (a) clocks, (b) typography, and (c) screen savers as much as I do, this might be your lucky day.

Word Clock is universal binary, and freeware.

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Source: http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/

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andrew harrison

First the floating stickies and now this too... you could at least credit Ivan over at http://creativebits.org/ who wrote them up over the weekend.

May 27 2008 at 7:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Robert Palmer

If I even knew about his site before just now, I would have done that. Fact is, I got it from this Reddit link: http://reddit.com/info/6kojz/comments/

I didn't link to the Reddit link in the story mostly because of the NSFW language in the comments thread.

TUAW has a very strong credit-where-credit-is-due policy that I take very seriously. I'm NOT saying creativebits.org is doing this, but we get a lot of comments "after the fact" claiming to be a story's uncredited source. If I were more cynical, I'd say that back-dating blog posts is just an clever way that unscrupulous sites are using to get traffic.

If I were more cynical. Good thing I'm not. The internet's a big place, and that's how memes work.

May 27 2008 at 7:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

andrew harrison

Fair enough.

I read the post over the weekend on CB, and thought it strange that after TUAW linked to the CreativeBits post on floating stickies, 3 or 4 posts later you write about the same subject that CreativeBits wrote about in their post before that.

But, you provided your source, which is good enough for me.

May 27 2008 at 7:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MILE

Uhm, isn't one of the purposes of a screensaver to actually _prevent_ burn-in...?!?

May 27 2008 at 5:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Fernando

awsm, but no 24hr option? :P

May 27 2008 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Topper

Something similar is PolarClock http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock/

May 27 2008 at 4:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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