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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
krisa said 4:19PM on 5-27-2008
Ironic screen saver is ironic
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marc cardwell said 4:39PM on 5-27-2008
coolest thing i've seen all week. thanks.
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Topper said 4:43PM on 5-27-2008
Something similar is PolarClock http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock/
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Fernando said 5:16PM on 5-27-2008
awsm, but no 24hr option? :P
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MILE said 5:48PM on 5-27-2008
Uhm, isn't one of the purposes of a screensaver to actually _prevent_ burn-in...?!?
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Colin said 6:16PM on 5-27-2008
From the writeup:
"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."
I guess you might want to take a pass. Besides, no one uses a screen saver to prevent burn-in anymore. Let it run for a while then have your monitor power off. Simple.
MILE said 6:30PM on 5-27-2008
I know that of course and I myself don't use a screensaver anyway, I have set the screen to dim first and then deactivate after a while...
But once one of the purposes _was_ to prevent burn-in -- and now there's a screensaver that actually might cause that effect...!? Uhm, okay...whatever...
Colin said 8:49PM on 5-27-2008
Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, it's not so much a screen saver anymore...more like decoration. :)
Andrew Harrison said 7:21PM on 5-27-2008
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.
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Robert Palmer said 7:34PM on 5-27-2008
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.
Andrew Harrison said 7:45PM on 5-27-2008
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.