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Four free Christmas screen savers to get your Mac in the holiday spirit

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 9th, 2009)

I love this time of year. I love the lights and the snow and the holiday cookies. I also love getting my Mac in the festive spirit. From widgets to desktop pictures to icons, there are countless ways to dress your Mac for Christmas. Here are four festive screen savers. Best of all, they're free. ...

Mac 101: Locking your Mac with a hotkey, like you can with Windows

by Jason Clarke (Jun 19th, 2009)

One of the things that confused me the most when I switched to the Mac platform was the fact that there's no built-in way to lock the computer manually with a hotkey when walking away from it. This is something that was drilled into me from working in an office full of pranksters where leaving your ...

Mac 101: SizzlingKeys - control iTunes with keyboard shortcuts

by Jason Clarke (Jun 18th, 2009)

Controlling your music while you're working (or playing) on your computer should be virtually seamless. While these days it's almost impossible to buy a keyboard without media keys built-in, there are many users that either don't have media controlling keys on their keyboards, or would simply prefer ...

Get into the Halloween spirit with a screen saver

by Cory Bohon (Oct 12th, 2008)

With Halloween only a couple weeks away, it's time to get your Mac into the holiday spirit ... with a screen saver! The free Jack-o-Lantern screen saver from Killer Robots does just that -- without the mess of carving a pumpkin. It has over 25 pre-made designs, but you can also create your own ...

Terminal Tips: Make your Screensaver a desktop background

by Cory Bohon (Aug 25th, 2008)

Have you ever wanted your screen saver to appear as a background image? Probably not. But if you like to show off to your Windows-using friends, then this tip can definitely help you out. By typing the following command into Terminal (Applications > Utilities), all on one line, and hitting ...

Status Screen Saver 1.0

by Cory Bohon (May 23rd, 2008)

Are you so addicted to RSS, Mail, and Twitterrific that you just can't stand when your screen saver launches? Status Screen Saver might just be the screen saver for you. The awesome thing about this screen saver is that is displays your current unread Mail count, unread NetNewsWire feeds, and even ...

A dynamic screensaver, DIY style

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 6th, 2008)

Glenn Franxman at HackerMojo just put up a Python script that makes pictures pulled from MetroPulse into a screensaver. It's a mere 17 lines of code (which you can easily modify without knowing Python) that run as a cron job, downloading the images into the directory that you specify for the ...

The Twittervision and Flickrvision screen saver

by David Chartier (May 16th, 2007)

Twittervision and Flickrvision are sister projects that mashup their respective communities in real time with Google Maps, providing a (somewhat summarized) play-by-play world map of what's happening on Twitter and Flickr. While watching either of these services can easily become a hobby, of sorts, ...