A Collection of 10 Free Awesome Mac Screensavers
Screensavers used to serve the purpose of preventing burn-in of your display screen. But modern displays doesn’t need this. So screensavers have now become just a tool to show off or make your desktop look pretty while you are away. Mac OS X has some visually stunning screensavers. We’ll take a look at some free to use screensavers.
High in oomph factor, entertainment quotient and stress busting screensaver solutions for your viewing pleasure. Click the image to go to the screensaver home page and download it. Enjoy the show.
MovingPhotos 3D
Builds a 3D building structure with photos.
Anemona
Anèmona is a particle-based screensaver which make movements like the plants in sea.
Fenetres Volantes
The moment this screensaver starts, your currently open windows panes start to fly around your wallpaper! It’s nice to watch your panes snap back in place after their short flight.
PolarClock
A cool clock screensaver. Also check out Fliqlo, another clock based screensaver.
Arc [Digg Labs]
Digg labs tools provide a visual perspective of Digg activities. Arc displays stories wrapped around a sphere. Arc trail people as they Digg stories across topics. Check out their other visual stunning screensaver models—Swarm, BigSpy and Stacks.
Kernel Panic Screensaver
Crash your Mac with the Kernel Panic screensaver. On a mouse move, I felt as if I woke up in middle of a nightmare. The evil thing is, in the preview of the screensaver will seem like a harmless shapes as you would see in a kaleidoscope.
Time Machine
This one bring back the visually stunning Time Machine feel of Leopard. Keep starring at it for 2 minutes with your lights switched off. You’ll have a feeling as if you’re aboard the Chandrayaan-1.
The iTunes 8 Visualizer
Remember the new iTunes visualizer which comes with latest version of iTunes? It’s awesome and would make a stunning screensaver. Here’s a guide as how you can use your iTunes visualizer as screensaver.
LotsaWater
Simulate the effect that you get when you desktop is filled with water. The effect is amazing, like when throw a stone on a pond, creating ripples on your desktop.
Screensaver with your photos
Take a trip down the memory lane, on your favourite street. There’s nothing like gazing through your photos. A smile on your face is guaranteed. OS X can pick up photos from your iPhoto/Aperture library. You can make it select photos from a particular set in case you’ve organized your library in projects.
Leopard too has some good in-built screensavers notably Arabesque and Flurry (all time favourite of many Mac users).
Is there any other interesting screensaver that you think we’ve slipped? Share it with us in the comments.
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I use a clock screensaver called Analogy. It’s really creative, and looks great.
http://www.jessonyip.com/analogy/
Wesley November 6th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
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Looks good. Thanks for sharing. We’ll have another round-up if we’ve such awesome screensaver that missed here.
Ashwin November 6th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Wow. I was surprised that you did not list Electric Sheep. Looks fantastic and always gets lots of positive comments when people see it running on my screens.
http://electricsheep.org/
Buckley November 6th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
They are good but you know what they are worth nothing when my screensaver fires up!!
Its a treat to eyes when my Photoshopped Kournikova folder fires up its pics all over the screen. Nothing like it, its bliss
Azeem November 6th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Hey Guys,
How about Word Clock?.
Keep up the good work on this site. It is bookmarked on my computer
Naveen Sundar November 16th, 2008 at 7:32 pm