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SolarWinds

Average user rating: 4.7/5
Total votes: 77

This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh.

Skyrocket

Average user rating: 4.6/5
Total votes: 101

There's fireworks screen savers, and then there's Skyrocket. Technology has come a long way since the days of the Pyro! screen saver, and Skyrocket shows how far we've come by rendering fireworks in 3D. Oh, and it also has sound effects to go with the fireworks. And unlike some other fireworks screen savers, this one won't change your screen's resolution.

Marine Aquarium

Average user rating: 4.6/5
Total votes: 93

You've seen aquarium programs before, but you've never seen anything like this! Marine Life so vibrant you won't believe your eyes. Indescribable realism! Theses fish are actual 3D Models, not flat images dragged accross the screen. This Deluxe version includes 26 different species of fish to choose from. Other features include a starfish, variable lighting, wireframe mode, and more. The 3D fish bend, turn, and swim just like real fish!

Desktop Aquarium 3D

Average user rating: 4.5/5
Total votes: 74

Watch as your monitor fills with water and real 3D fish begin to swim around the screen you were just working on!

Helios

Average user rating: 4.4/5
Total votes: 68

Helios is a particle attraction/repulsion screen saver where "blobs" emit and receive multi-colored particles. It's difficult to describe, but as some have said about the screen saver, it's pretty insane.

Hyperspace

Average user rating: 4.2/5
Total votes: 84

Hyperspace is a screen saver that sends its users on a virtual trip through a wormhole, just like the ones in some sci-fi TV shows and movies. Meanwhile, nebulas and stars fly by.

Plasma Tunnel

Average user rating: 4.0/5
Total votes: 76

The effect you are about to see was first meant to be the last part of our upcoming demo, but we decided to pull it apart, since it doesn't match the style of the demo anymore. Beside of this it was the result of a boring, rainy sunday here in germany, and can not be considered as something special... but anyways hopefully more special than this ported savers floating around [something to kick your peecee pals asses].

Riding with Robots

Average user rating: 3.9/5
Total votes: 42

A robot armada has been unleashed into the night sky. Its ships are unmanned interplanetary probes that fly faster than you will ever go, and cross distances you can't even imagine. But with nothing more than an Internet connection, you can go with them, catching sights that are as real—and as beautiful—as they are strange.

Loops Fireplace

Average user rating: 3.8/5
Total votes: 78

Warm and cosy, this excellent screensaver brings you a real fireplace without running out of wood. Crackles and pops like the real thing. A must-have!

Void

Average user rating: 3.6/5
Total votes: 79

Enjoy five (Dropdown, Circles, Spin, Fall in, Reptiles) screen animations with our screensaver Void. It takes the screen and plays with it a little.

Little Fluffy Cubes

Average user rating: 3.5/5
Total votes: 83

The "Little Fluffy Cubes" screen saver is free software and was coded by Gareth Noyce (aka: Korruptor). It is loosely based on the "Cube Field" demo by Phil Freeman and is my first OS X screen saver. Guess that explains why it's so basic... ;-)

20th Century Voyage

Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 96

Buildings and towns are the crystallization of people’s designs. On the contrary, war and terrorism mean the destruction of such crystallized designs. When it was founded, BAUHAUS, which is committed to design, declared the ultimate goal of figurative arts to be "architecture". This word "architecture" is considered to connote the environment. Producing an environment where people can lead a humane life; this is what we consider design to be. Will the coming 100 years become a century of design or of war? How should designers link with society in the new world called the "network"? This is what we need to consider.

StarWarsScroll

Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 47

From a galaxy far, far away, Killer Robots Games is proud to present StarWarsScroll. StarWarsScroll is a screen saver which accurately recreates the opening titles of each of the six Star Wars movies. Can't find your Star Wars DVDs? Relive the experience through StarWarsScroll.

Euphoria

Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 66

This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh.

RedPill

Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 76

Red Pill is a free screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays strips of green alien code which slowly draw themselves on the screen as they sweep towards you in 3D. It may bear a certain resemblance to graphics seen in a popular Sci-Fi movie sequel being released in May 2003.

Sparkly

Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 128

The best way to describe this one is as a glowing ball emitting a shower of colorful sparks as it travels randomly across the screen — kind of like a pixie! It’s actually entertaining to watch.

Space Wars

Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 63

Space ships do battle in a dogfight in deep space! Ships chase their enemies, but avoid firing on their comrades. Ships take damage and explode into pieces. Some ships have shields, which absorb damage until they're depleted. Motherships patrol the area as well as small star fighters. Additional space ships available for download to add to the full version.

Flux

Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 71

This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh. All the good things in this ScreenSaver are his.

SETI@home

Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 56

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power. Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this idea. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999.

Cosmos

Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 90

A selection of high quality space images showcased via the Ken Burns Effect.

RSS Visualizer

Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 96

View news headlines via an RSS feed, displayed on your screen using the beauty of OpenGL.

Forest

Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 73

A selection of forest scenes showcased via the Ken Burns Effect.

CosmoSaverX

Average user rating: 3.2/5
Total votes: 65

A beautiful screensaver for Mac OS X that lets you view a sharp guality image of solar system! It has same engine that come in your Mac OS X package but it give you in high quality and in small sizes.

Urban Texture

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 75

Star in your own hiphop video clip, with shipping crates, and spashes of paint and graffiti. (responds to audio)

Pyrotheque

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 60

Reminisce with me about being a Mac user in the ’80s. Saving the CRT on your precious Plus or trusty IIcx from dreaded burn-in was serious business. Maybe you opted for the simple blank screen; perhaps animated line art was more your style. For me, it was all about the fireworks. Silent, hypnotic, dependable fireworks. It seemed to be what the Mac did on its days off; tiny pixellated explosions were its hobby.

Matrix Reloaded GL

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 48

This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows/Linux OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Alex Zolotov.

Fracture

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 50

Fracture is a screensaver for OS X that creates a wide variety of fractal images. It can render the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Self-Squared Dragons, and Attraction Basin fractals generated using Newton's Method, Halley's Method, and two other root-finding algorithms. It can make images using advanced fractal imaging techniques like orbit traps, periodicity analysis, and binary decomposition, and it can use several different parameterizations for even greater image variety.

LotsaWater

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 84

Renders a fairly realistic water effect over your desktop, showing it distorted through the wavy surface of the water as raindrops fall on the surface. It uses quite a bit of CPU power. There are configuration options to vary the accuracy of the simulation to fit the processing power available.

Electric Sheep

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 109

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience. You can also design your own sheep and submit them to the gene pool.

Global Consciousness

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 61

Global Consciousness screen saver pulls from the stream of consciousness in real time from the 'Global Consciousness'. Instead of having pre-determined text, this displays the live text feed from our website. You can add to the global consciousness by going to this website.

Fireflies

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 96

Port of the OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Matt Perry. This ScreenSaver is displaying swarms of fireflies tracking baits. Source code available.

Loops Beach

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 87

The perfect beach. Waves roll in. In the distance some birds can be heard. It can't get any better than this. I wish I were there.

Fading Images

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 66

FadingImages is a plugin for the Mac OS X screen saver engine that displays the images from a specified folder scattered across your screen and slowly fades them out. It will cycle through all the images before repeating, but since they fade at different rates you will over time end up with different images - and always in different locations and scales.

Loops Aqua

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 73

You like the look of MacOS X? Then this is a perfect addition. We ask ourselves: Why isn't this part of the system ... Flubber!

.Mac

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 71

A selection of photos from your .Mac public folder showcased via the Ken Burns Effect.

SpaceTime

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 70

SpaceTime Screensaver for OS X demonstrates a 3D animated warp speed effect and star field skymap. This is Free Software with complete XCode v2.4 sources available via the download page.

LotsaGlass

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 86

This screensaver displays an animated blob of liquid glass that flows and deforms according to various patterns. It was heavily inspired by Futurismo Zugakousaku's work.

ImagePuzzle

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 65

Image-Puzzle is a screen saver for MacOS X which computes animated puzzle images (like photomosaic) out of your iPhoto Library. Many preferences can be applied like iPhoto folders, resolution and many animation options. The computed photo puzzles can be exported to iPhoto to order high quality printouts of the puzzles.

Hills

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 87

Gently drift over rolling grassy hills, or speed around over a green savanna.

Chemical Burn

Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 58

ChemicalBurn is a screensaver that simulates a transportation network. Packages are generated with a destination, and attempt to find the fastest way there. Frequently used routes get faster, making them more popular. The result is a beautiful self-organizing network colorfully displayed on your screen.

Nodes are randomly generated on the screen. Initially, all connections are equally slow. Packages are generated randomly as the screensaver runs. Each package is generated at a random node, and has another random node set as its destination.

As packages flow through a connection, the connection is strengthened and becomes faster. A disused connection gradually weakens. This is analogous to real-life computer and transportation networks, where the connections with the most traffic get more infrastructure investment and become even faster.

The result is a self-organizing network with complex structure, as popular routes are reinforced with even more traffic, and hubs, rings, and other structures form spontaneously from the simple rules.

If enabled, nodes will be created and destroyed at random during the simulation. When a node is destroyed, it is not immediately removed from the network. Instead the node and its connections turns red, packages are forbidden from using that node in their routes and packages with the destroyed node as their destination are re-routed elsewhere. Once all packages are clear of the destroyed node, it is removed from the screen.

PongSaver

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 56

PongSaver is an OS X screensaver/clock which keeps time by using the score of a game of Pong. The left side wins once an hour, and the right side wins once a minute.

Security

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 82

What is this shape, and why has it been locked away? It sure looks angry. (responds to audio)

Isosurface

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 65

Isosurface is an application and screensaver built around an implicit surface polygonizer created by Jules Bloomenthal. The polygonizer converts mathematical functions into a triangle mesh which can be drawn with OpenGL. Isosurface allows you to explore a collection of shapes and surfaces, by rotating them and flying around them.

LED Love

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 76

On the stockmarket of society, watch what love and apathy are trading for.

Loops Newton

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 92

It's not rocket science but still a bit of physics. Watch it - watch closer. You're eyes getting tired, you feel sleepy... Wake up!

Tasmania

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 78

A beautiful panning and never-ending view of Northern Tasmania, Australia.

BSOD

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 87

Don't you ever wish that you could get your Mac to crash like a Windows machine? We don't either. On the other hand, we decided that we really wanted a screensaver that made it look like our Mac had crashed while running Windows. Why? We're twisted like that. So we made one.

This screensaver will not crash your Mac. It will not give you Windows. It will not hurt your cat, dog, family member, or other pet. It will, however, display one of over 200 highly realistic BSODs -- complete with real stop codes and messages and dynamically-generated memory addresses. Basically, it will look just like a real, not-so-live Windows crash -- enough so that you could actually look up what the error codes mean in Microsoft's documentation. (But why would you?)

Street Crossing

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 59

New York City, Times Square, on May 9th 2002. Cars passing, a truck turning right. Red means Stop. Green means Go. It's raining. People are walking around with umbrellas. An image of the American metropolis as can be seen every day at this street corner. This perfectly ordinary image contrasts with the stunning city of NYC as we think we know it. Edited in slow motion, this looping movie opens our eyes to the aesthetics and poetry of banality, taking thus the power of alleviating us.

Virtual Fireworx

Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 79

All year long, any holiday or occasion, Virtual FireworX brings a festive mood to your Mac! These pyro-tastic delights burn cool, so they won't burn you, or your screen! Virtual FireworX are realtime 3D particle animations of fireworks simulations. Thanks to new technology available to MacOS X 10.4, a.k.a., "Tiger", Virtual FireworX performs better than it's predecessor, Digital FireworX. Because the fireworks render in realtime, they truly vary from each viewing, randomly igniting in new locations in 3D space!

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