Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 77
Bring the relaxing ambience of a crackling fire to your Mac! Campfirez is a realtime fire simulator, complete with authentic sound effects. No need to hunt for firewood, so put away those matches. Start a fire on your screen anytime, without getting burned! Campfirez employs real-time particle animation to create convincing fire simulations. You can set the shape, color, and location in space. The registered version is fully customizable; allowing control of the spread, speed, size, and decay of up to four separate fire emitters. So turn off the lights, pull up a camp chair, and crack open a cold one. Just try not to drop roasted marshmallow goo on your keyboard.
Our rating: 4.5/5
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!
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 92
This screensaver draws snowflakes falling down your screen. Simple enough, but the oh-so-clever part is that it uses a semi-physical model for growing each snowflake, meaning every snowflake is actually unique, and also that it uses a quite a bit of processing power. But that's the price you pay for indivduality!
Our rating: 3/5
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.
Our rating: 5/5
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.
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 72
The beautiful snowflake images used as a basis for this screensaver were taken by Wilson Bentley, and are in the public domain. See snowflakebentley.com for more.
Our rating: 2/5
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 50
This is a Cocoa OpenGL screensaver written in Objective C. It's modeled on the pretty falling snowflakes animation that Apple have been running on the iMac in the window of the local Apple store. Tweakable parameters include snowflake size, depth fog, number of snowflakes, depth of scene, and background color. Defaults should make it look similar to the Apple display.
Our rating: 4/5
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.
Our rating: 3.5/5
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!