Screensavers

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:53 am

Good place to get a few? There are plenty of resources out there for wallpaper, I find it harder to find a decent looking screensaver though.

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:13 am

Blank screen is the only real screensaver.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:53 pm

I just display the time for my ss.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:44 pm

I don't use a screensaver

I turn off my monitor when I am done with the computer

barring that, my other computer is my laptop and it has a LCD and has no effect with burn-ins, so..

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:43 pm

darkbenny wrote:I just display the time for my ass.

I totally read it like that at first.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:11 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:I don't use a screensaver

I turn off my monitor when I am done with the computer

barring that, my other computer is my laptop and it has a LCD and has no effect with burn-ins, so..

I didn't ask whether or not you use a screensaver, and LCD's suffer from image persistence, which is effectively the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_persistence

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:54 pm

I think the best screen saver ever is that 3d fish one. it beats the hell out of that old black and white mac fish screen saver. by the way, I have the default "windows xp logo floating around" screen saver cause I couldn't care less.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:02 am

casualsax3 wrote:I didn't ask whether or not you use a screensaver, and LCD's suffer from image persistence, which is effectively the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_persistence

sorry

also I didn't know that LCDs suffer from the same thing

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:29 am

casualsax3 wrote:
adventure_of_link wrote:I don't use a screensaver

I turn off my monitor when I am done with the computer

barring that, my other computer is my laptop and it has a LCD and has no effect with burn-ins, so..
I didn't ask whether or not you use a screensaver, and LCD's suffer from image persistence, which is effectively the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_persistence

Except that your own link says LCD persistence is temporary and easily fixed, whereas CRT burn-in is permanent.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:28 am

There's that BSOD (Blue screen of death) screensaver you can download from Microsoft.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:00 am

If you're really concerned about screen damage, turn on the power-saving feature, so the screen just plain cuts off when your comp is idle.

If you just want to stare at pretty pictures, get a screensaver.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:58 am

adult swim has a few

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:08 am

nobody mentioned electricsheep? for shame! You need a good computer and a good net connection but from what i've seen, it's pretty sweet.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:09 am

I have electric sheep, but the videos are really low resolution and I haven't been able to find a good high res server.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:14 am

I used to have this screen saver with ants, that would build a colony right on your screen. It was really cool.