June 17th, 2009 Ceasar
Nature enthusiasts and ecological experts have collaborated on compiling some of the best and most environmentally awareness enticing images of nature that shows us the natural beauty of the natural world like never before. Most of these screen savers do ask for a fee, some of which goes into conservation efforts that spans the world. Just make sure you select and do some background checking so you’re assured of true commitment to nature by the web site you choose. Nature has a wonderful ability to inspire us with its natural beauty and allure that can only be seen in nature itself. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 17th, 2009 Ceasar
Love space and anything about space? Well then the many available mission screen savers are best for you. May it be of spacecraft or space itself and the many stunning images of heavenly bodies that were taken and used for scientific exploration or study, they are available all over the place. NASA and many other space agencies have their own set of screen savers which they use to promote awareness and their work that expands our knowledge of space and the universe. Get the latest images from the many Mars missions that have allowed better understanding of the red planet in all its glory. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 17th, 2009 Ceasar
Screen savers have a security purpose in businesses such as securing unattended desktops from prying eyes as people take their coffee breaks. These can be set as security extensions for people who work with financial institutions or other vital offices that may have confidential information displayed on their screens at all times. That is if they are configured right and used as they were designed for by the IT department or support personnel. Some people fail to realize the security these graphics programs can attain. Most people simply see them as a nuisance and IT sees it as a waste of time. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 17th, 2009 Ceasar
Screen savers are relics of the days of old and are today quite irrelevant when it comes to saving power. Energy star rated products are already mandatory, capable of turning themselves off at pre-set intervals to prevent the old nemesis of the CRT tube, screen burn or phosphorus burn-in. The old problem of the screen getting imprinted with the most common image projected onto it by the electron gun.
Newer LCD displays do not suffer this problem though they can suffer from dead pixels or LED elements that burn-out prematurely due to faulty manufacturing procedures. This is expected though a few dead ones are hardly visible. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 9th, 2009 Sherill
Did you know that using a screensaver not only helps keep your monitor last longer, it also helps save you power?
The monitor and displays are the biggest consumers of power in your PC, yes, even bigger than a normal central processing unit (now if your CPU is super buffed up, like one for gaming with fancy shmancy attachments, it might be another mater entirely) so it simply makes sense that when your monitor temporarily turns itself off through the screensaver, you save power.
When doing long tasks like scanning for viruses and spyware and malware, or defragging your disk, converting or rendering videos or photos, downloading files or copying large files, burning a CD or DVD - more or less tasks that render your PC slower - always have a screen saver kick in after a couple of minutes so that you can save up on power.
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January 12th, 2009 Ceasar
The advent of the screen saver was actually a way of securing your desktop in the office and at home whenever you stepped out for sometime preventing unauthorized access to your work. The term screen saver was actually a term used to describe the many programs that still utilized the windows-api allowing them to work within the framework of the operating system. The influx of today’s LCD displays are making the use of such programs a bit too redundant for they were designed for use on older CRT displays which suffered from burn-in where an image that was imprinted onto the phosphors themselves leaving them there forever.
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December 25th, 2008 sayuri
Screensavers are usually just made up of cutesy pictures or something that the user likes. However, there’s a screensaver out there that not only looks good, but your computer will be used to search for life in other planets:
“The program can be downloaded and installed on a home computer,” Wertheimer said. “It works as a screensaver, performing analysis on the data received from SETI at home.”
He said each home PC is sent a small chunk of sky data to analyze.
“With 2,000 computers looking at their own piece of sky data, it is the equivalent of the biggest computation on the planet,” he said. “Once you’ve got the data in your computer it will start sifting through hundreds of millions of different radio signals, looking for some faint signals from a distant civilization.”
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November 25th, 2008 Ceasar
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After the scaring yourself last Halloween, its time to make way for the Christmas Holidays. And what better way to celebrate the holiday cheers right in your desktop. Holiday Lights 5.4 will decorate your personal computer or office machine for the coming holidays. Enjoy some nice string of very colorful Christmas light on the edges of your computer screen. Whats more, it plays a Christmas background music by just checking it in the option. There are forty bulbs you can choose from to be able to suit your mood. It includes Christmas tree lights, stockings, chili peppers, snowmen and so much more. And you have the option to add more music and bulbs. The lights flash while you are working on your desktop. It is fun to just stare for quite a bit.
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October 7th, 2008 Ceasar
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Halloween is lurking just a few days from now. What better way to celebrate the holiday with the coolest, scariest, latest screensavers in the net. Decorate your desktop with spooky creatures, monsters and witches. and experience a real treat this Halloween. Check out Halloween Haunting Screen Saver. And enjoy 3D skulls or evil Jack-O-Lanterns fly around your screen while spooky, weird noises hum in the background. Be ready with floating blood red eyeballs.
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September 29th, 2008 Ceasar
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Screen savers are small programs that pop up within the operating system whenever the pc or laptop becomes idle. The screen savers were originally designed to protect a computer monitor from phosphor burn-in. These are used to make pixels in the display. This particular element glows at a certain rate and for a long period of time these could discolor the glass surface of the monitor. This is what we see as a faint image in the monitor. But through time, these screensavers transformed into another form of entertainment application. Developers modified the concept and made it rather, Cool! Most people use these now to display their favorite photos. Instant slide shows. Some use it as a form of advertising. Some use it for security. To lock the pc when it is in idle mode. Finally, there are a number of websites that offer you softwares that create a personalized screensaver just for you. You might want to try them out.
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