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3D Flamingos

Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 75

Watch as a flock of elegant 3D flamingos sleep delicately balanced in a turquoise lagoon while other flamingos walk past at varied speeds and in varied directions or scoop up and sieve the lagoons waters in a search of food. Asian string music plays softly to soothe the spirit. Want a restful night time scene? Just set the time of day to night time and a dark shadowy blue hue is cast over lagoon and flamingos. Prefer a dusky sunset scene? The default dusk setting produces a deep reddish hue.

After Dark

Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.2/5
Total votes: 74

After Dark™ is the best-selling screen saver that has delighted Macintosh users worldwide since 1989, best known for the famous Flying Toasters. "After Dark X + Fish" adds the popular "Fish", "Mowing Man" and "Mandelbrot" modules to the existing "Space Toasters", "Starry Night" and other user favorites. More than just a screensaver, "After Dark X + Fish" offers hours of entertainment for all Macintosh users.

Astral Blossom

Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 69

Your Macintosh display is a thing of beauty, capable of generating millions of subtle shades. Let Astral Blossom™ transform it into a work of art, with uniquely dazzling effects. Never the same twice, Astral Blossom dynamically traverses the vast color space of your display, taking different paths every time as it generates exhilarating geometric paintings of color and light unlike any other screen saver or visualizer.

BSOD

Our rating: 1/5
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?)

BTFishes

Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 85

The BTFishes screen saver looks for nearby Bluetooth devices (e.g. cell phones and other computers), and for each device summons a unique, colourful fish. It will also display a news feed of your choice.

Black Screen

Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 2.1/5
Total votes: 63

The most effective screen saver you've ever seen. Guess what: it just makes the screen turn black! Great if you don't want your screen to burn in neither waste precious processor cycles with some fancy animation which distracts you from your work.

Campfirez

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.

Chemical Burn

Our rating: 3/5
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.

Computer Name

Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 60

Your computer name floats around a metallic apple.

Desktop Aquarium 3D

Our rating: 4.5/5
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!

FaceTheCrowd

Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 59

A simple serene screen saver module for OS X. Easy installation. More blue for you.

Fracture

Our rating: 3.5/5
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.

Global Consciousness

Our rating: 3/5
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.

Harusbitcation

Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 1.6/5
Total votes: 57

Haruspix's humane screen saver with source code. Suitable for vegetarians.

Helios

Our rating: 4.5/5
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.

LED Love

Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 76

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

Loops Laundry

Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 2.4/5
Total votes: 56

This bizarre screensaver does the dirty work for you. Keep it washing or use it as a replacement for your TV. We won't reveal the model though...

Matrix Reloaded GL

Our rating: 4/5
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.

Neko

Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 1.4/5
Total votes: 60

Neko.saver is a screensaver module for MacOS X. It shows the cats playing on the screen while the screensaver is running. It is a MacOS X port and screensaver version of 'xneko' application originally created for the X-Window system, and is based on Michael Trent's Rhapsody port for FreeSpace module.

Osirus

Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 1.5/5
Total votes: 66

The first in a series of screen savers brought to you by töshöklabs. Osirus generates hypnotic circular patterns, which randomly forms various disc shaped imagery. Controls are provided for different color schemes, the speed, transparency, refresh rate, line thickness, motion, fade, and full screen options.

Ouroboros

Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 1.2/5
Total votes: 58

This is a Mac OS X screen saver featuring a 360 degree rotating Ouroboros.

PongSaver

Our rating: 3/5
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.

Rastafied

Our rating: 1.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 54

Another OpenGL based screensaver featuring an effect of the demo Super SIDekick.

Security

Our rating: 2.5/5
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)

StarWarsScroll

Our rating: 2.5/5
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.

Street Crossing

Our rating: 3.5/5
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.

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