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For the images to look their best, I’ll need to find images that match this resolution. You can see my screen is set to 1680 x 1050. Easiest is to go to System Preferences -> Display and just look at the default setting: Next you need to figure out your current screen resolution. You can create a folder – in case you haven’t figured it out yet – by choosing “New Folder” from the “File” menu: I use the name Desktop Images to make things clear and easy. Let’s start by going to the “PIctures” folder and creating a new folder for the desktop images. Oh, lots of people call these screen-size images wallpaper too. When we’re done, we’ll simply point the Desktop & Screen Saver system preference on your iMac to use the images in the new folder instead. To summarize before we start (I know you methodical NASA types!) we’re going to create a new folder for the images, do a Google image search to find photos that are the exact size of your screen, then save them, one-by-one, into the folder. There are probably a ton more great screensavers out there, and please don’t hesitate to add your favorites below too.Really interesting question, actually, because it’s spurred me to think about the most efficient way to accomplish what you seek and to realize that while it’s easy, there are a bunch of steps involved to accomplish what you seek.
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Check out the Apple archive, and talk with your Mac fanatic friends. I love the paper cutout style and wish that they moved rather than the tiny paper airplanes flying around, but either way, it’s a fun sort of vintage look for your computer when it’s otherwise idle. One more: Paper Pilots is another rather expensive screensaver ($10 Canadian) but it has such a different look that it’s worth a mention. I like this one because it offers a spinning Earth globe, but presents the information in a way that makes my computer suddenly seem like a data analysis tool from Star Trek or similar. This is one of a ton of cool screensavers from Digital Minds Software, a group that seems to specialize in screen savers for the Mac and PC. And what’s nice about this one? It’s free. It’s kind of retro, but I like the Wargames sort of feel of this wireframe Earth screensaver. This is also really fast and as shareware goes, is ridiculously cheap: $2.79.
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Have an insane, inexplicable jealously of your Windows friends with the neat soap bubble screen saver? Now you can have it too, very well rendered, on your Mac. It’s also shareware, which means that if you like it, you’ll need to pay the author $10 to unlock it. The down side? It’s very processor intensive so it might run slow on your computer: test it out. This is the coolest photo album display screensaver I’ve seen, far slicker than what Apple includes.
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To answer this question I spent a bunch of time on the Apple Screensaver Download Library, along with a few other spots, and here are the four or five that I think are the most interesting / attractive: Moving Photos 3D
There are a bunch of third-party screensavers on the market, though, including quite a few that are shareware from a couple of prolific developers.
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Nowadays Apple includes quite a set of good screen savers for free as part of Mac OS X and for the most part I use photo show, varying which pictures I have displayed, or the “Shell” graphical saver, which I think is pretty slick. Anyone else remember that? Goofy, but somehow compelling… With MacOS 9 there was an explosion of cool screensavers, notably including what was one of my favorites at the time, the Flying Toasters set from a small company called Berkeley Systems.
After a while, the screen really did “burn in” on the image and be ruined.
You can still see the problem sometimes on the screens of older video games, where they’ve had the same “play our game!” graphic shown for weeks, months or even years. Flying toasters, anyone? Yeah, I can remember when we had screen savers because the screens weren’t smart enough to turn themselves off after a certain idle period.
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