Posted on December 1, 2008
Offshoots is a fun little visual app that grows trees on your Mac. It comes in screensaver and app form–the app runs as your Desktop background. Essentially one vector “branch” appears on screen, and a bunch of offshoots from it appear (as well as leaves), making it a full tree. You can even set Offshoots to grow toward your mouse, and set all of its colors, sizes, and alpha levels yourself.
Posted on April 13, 2008
Caffeine is a useful, minimalist tool that sits in your menu bar, and lets you control whether or not your Mac goes to sleep, and when it should. It’s extremely simplistic (one click of its icon will keep your Mac from sleeping). You can set it to not sleep for certain time cycles, as well. Very useful.
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Posted on January 15, 2008
LotsaWater is an awesome screensaver app that makes it look like your Mac’s desktop is underwater. You can adjust the amount of rain falling on the water. The rain isn’t animated, only the ripples in the water. Still great though, and definitely worth trying. You’ll be amazed!
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Posted on January 1, 2008
In honor of New Year’s Day, I’ve decided to post a rather festive screensaver. SkyRocket is a popular screensaver that shoots fireworks into the virtual sky. It has tons of options and allows for many fireworks (or just a few) to go off. Really cool screensaver.
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Posted on December 27, 2007
Folding@Home is a productive app that lets you “donate your computer time” to scientific research. You can set it to run as a screensaver, or just have it run in the background. You can also track your progress online.
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Posted on December 13, 2007
ElectricSheep is the greatest screensaver ever. It uses “flame fractals” which are patterns that are randomly generated from lines of code. It makes absolutely amazing patterns, but takes up a lot of space on your hard drive (up to 9GB depending on which megapacks you download), depending on how many fractal videos you download. This is the kind of screensaver that you show your friends (and brag about)! Also, while it runs, it downloads new sheep files for you. Very, very cool.
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