February 10th, 2010 Ceasar
Screensavers of today have made great progress when it comes to functionalities. Screensavers are now capable of delivering Real Time Images on your computer screens. A known facility that uses a real time screensaver application is the Northwestern Transportation Center. Their main purpose for using a real time screensaver program is to display the Chicago Highway Traffic and Weather. The facility also wanted to display the Flight Delays and the National Weather. With the aid of an Internet connection, the Northwestern Real Time Transportation Screensaver was able to effectively distribute data to different users faster and more effectively as compared to RSS feeds.
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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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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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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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August 18th, 2008 Ceasar
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• Go to Windows Photo Gallery.
• Click the pictures you want to display in the slide show. If you have more than one picture, hold down the CRTL key and click on those photos you want to include.
• click the “slide show” button located at the bottom of the photo gallery.
• If you don’t choose any picture, Windows Vista will play all the photos filed in the picture gallery once you click on “slide show.”
• remember that you can control the speed of your slide show.
Tip # 1: People like to apply several themes to their Windows Vista screen savers so that pictures (and videos) can be displayed in a variety of ways. Some themes cover the entire screen with one picture at a time, while others will show several simultaneously.
Tip # 2: Not all slide show themes work on all computers, says Microsoft. If the screensaver can’t run with a particular theme, your computer’s video card needs to be replaced with a more powerful one.
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