Screensavers Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Top 10 subtle Mountain Lion features (and a few more)

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2012)

Lifehacker has put together a list of what they call the "top 10 secret features of Mountain Lion." That's not quite right -- these features aren't secret, because it would be pretty silly to release an OS update and not tell anyone about it. But they are subtle, and this is a nice list of ...

Donate your (Kiwi-only) desktop to charity

by Erica Sadun (Jun 1st, 2012)

Got a high tolerance for advertising? Want to give a little something back to the world without a lot of effort? If you live in New Zealand, check out Donate Your Desktop. Each day, the app will download a new image from a sponsor to your desktop. A portion of your ad impressions (75% of ...

Daily Mac App: Magic Window

by Mel Martin (Dec 19th, 2011)

If you're tired of looking at that stale Mac OS desktop, think about adding Magic Window to your visual bag of tricks. Magic Window, available through the Mac App Store for US$2.99 (on sale) comes with 14 striking landscapes that change over time, so you see the skies change and the sun might ...

iSight Screensavers: Interact with your screensaver

by Josh Carr (Sep 17th, 2009)

Some of you may have noticed that some of your screensavers don't work after upgrading to Snow Leopard. If you're running a 64-bit instance of the operating system, you won't be able to use most of your old third-party screensavers because they're probably not compatible. Many of our favorite ...

1001: A really cool Flickr client

by David Chartier (Aug 14th, 2007)

The old adage that 'a picture is worth 1000 words' is still going nice and strong. Considering the sheer number of pictures that Flickr is hosting these days, that could be a lot of stories to sift through - why not try out a desktop app to help with all the work? 1001 is a unique Flickr client ...

plasq releases free Sqreensavers

by Scott McNulty (Sep 7th, 2006)

plasq, developers of the hit Comic Life, have released a package of 10 screensavers for your Mac. They are funky, they are fun, and best of all they are free. Now, I know what you're thinking, 'who cares about screensavers?' This is a matter or personal taste, but I would venture that these are some ...