What's a screen saver?

In all seriousness, I havent had a screen saver since the early times of windows XP. I'm really big on turning off my LCD when I walk away from it. It never dawned on me that I didn't have a screen saver until now.

mlee

United States116 Posts

November 14 2010 22:11 GMT

#24

On November 14 2010 22:41 xBillehx wrote:
I currently have it turned off but my screensaver is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT93vrIJOp8

...No I don't feel weird about it at all. <3

hahahaha i have this one and the yoona one that i switch between.

Dagobert

Netherlands1858 Posts

November 14 2010 22:53 GMT

#25

On November 14 2010 20:56 vek wrote:
I think the last time I used a screen saver was when I was on Windows 95

I also just have my monitor set to turn off after a certain amount of inactivity.

Same, though I'm sure it was Windows 98 SE. It was the 'The Matrix' screensaver, looked pretty cool. I got annoyed from all the screensaver nonsense when I started to watch more videos on my pc.

wooozy

3813 Posts

November 14 2010 22:56 GMT

#26

it was all about 3d pipes or the maze screensaver back then.

or using a marquee that said "GET AWAY FROM MY COMP"

ah the joys of being a kid.

Xapti

Canada2473 Posts

November 14 2010 23:02 GMT

#27

On November 14 2010 22:30 BottleAbuser wrote:
Modern monitors don't actually need screensavers. Old CRTs had a problem with burn-in, but you'll never get them today. Screensavers are just for fun now.

I've always used a CRT and still do (I'm on a 22" flatscreen). Used to get cool screensavers when I was younger for fun, but now I just use blank screen cause screensaver just uses more power and stuff (like bandwidth when using stuff like ElectricSheep or seti@home or folding@home).

Another reason - related to power again, just more relevant - is that there's only a small period of time between the 10 minutes it takes for the screensaver to go on, and the 20-30 minutes it takes for the monitor to turn off (power saving) where anyone can even see the screensaver - 10-20 minutes, with a likelyhood of no one even being around to see it.

If you don't have power saving on, then that's just lame.

airtown

United States410 Posts

November 14 2010 23:10 GMT

#28

mine:

Thank you for saving energy.

Falling

Canada11475 Posts

November 14 2010 23:33 GMT

#29

This isn't exactly my screen saver except at the 3:37 mark on. The video is actually the making of the screen saver by a fellow called Shamus Young. I follow his webcomics and articles.

Procedurally generated so, the city is different each the screen saver runs.

Sufficiency

Canada23833 Posts

November 14 2010 23:36 GMT

#30

I always use black screen

semantics

10040 Posts

November 14 2010 23:38 GMT

#31

Who still uses screen savers sense LCD do not need warm up times nor is really vulnerable to burn in. I just have it turn off monitor after x amount of time.

I wouldn't want anything too cool because then i'll be disappointed when i have to stop it to use my computer.

eLiE

Canada1039 Posts

November 14 2010 23:41 GMT

#32

Had this one for a long time

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Pretty cool, but I had it set to go off too fast, so it got annoying and the screen just turns off now. I wish you could change colour, blue flame would be bad ass.
Free Fire Screensaver

JeeJee

Canada5652 Posts

November 14 2010 23:43 GMT

#33

just like yurebis, i use electric sheep

Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_sheep

it's awesome =D

hifriend

China7935 Posts

November 15 2010 00:01 GMT

#34

On November 15 2010 08:33 Falling wrote:
This isn't exactly my screen saver except at the 3:37 mark on. The video is actually the making of the screen saver by a fellow called Shamus Young. I follow his webcomics and articles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y
Procedurally generated so, the city is different each the screen saver runs.

Very cool.

Tdoay

1 Post

March 06 2011 09:39 GMT

#35

I use Digital Goldfish Screensaver.
A cute interactive screensaver in which you can feed the fish,add or delete elements,induce ripple effects and more.
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