Comments on: Sex Up Your Desktop With A Clock Screensaver

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:00:08 +0000

It is still possible to get temporary and even (though rare) permanent image persistence in LCDs, though it’s not as common as in plasmas or CRTs.

By: London Reinhard

London Reinhard — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:18:29 +0000

hey, what do you have against CRT monitors? I’m still using one for my desktop

By: London Reinhard

London Reinhard — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:01:36 +0000

electric sheep is hands down my favorite screen saver
electricsheep.org
just watch one of the samples, so awesome

By: Laurens

Laurens — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:43:16 +0000

Yes, that would indeed be a problem… if you would still use that 20-year old CRT monitor. -_-

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:53:59 +0000

I really like the hand written clock. Unfortunately since the year stays static for well, a year, that might lead to some screen burn.

By: Oolis

Oolis — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:38:39 +0000

I find I am only concerned with screensavers when it comes to my home theater pc, which drives a 50″ plasma, which can be prone to image retention. So its important that said screensaver doesn’t have any areas of static color, otherwise it defeats the purpose by actually causing the problem it is meant to prevent. I have tried a lot of nice looking ones, as well as ones that display photos etc, but noticed they use a fair bit of CPU. As most home pcs are not meant to be run at full cpu, (they do heat up, and unless you upgrade the cooling the cpu will start to crash and eventually not work after a few years), and my home theater pc in particular is slightly under-fanned for noise reasons, I ended up just using blank screen, to preserve the life span of the machine.

Looking for other suggestions though for screen savers that meet my 2 requirements, no static image areas, and minimal cpu usage.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:40:42 +0000

I like PolarClock.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:42:05 +0000

Electric Sheep!

By: CJ :)

CJ :) — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:40:22 +0000

I love screensavers and gadgets. I guess I’m just hopelessly stuck in the 90s with you. lol

By: MikiP

MikiP — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:14:02 +0000

I use fliglo screensaver. It just shows the time in a very basic manner.

That way I always know how much time I’m wasting online

By: jack

jack — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:44:51 +0000

jean claude van dam had a career? =P i still enjoy screen savers to an extent. i always change the xp screen saver to something else and my mac screen saver is on the flurry. that hand written one looks pretty cool though!

By: Kristie

Kristie — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:33:52 +0000

My favorite screen saver in the 90’s was the ‘The Matrix’ one, with all the green characters streaming down the screen.

These days I just have that Photo thingee that comes with Google Pack.