Screen savers are fun, artistical and a sign of creativiness. Thats why people use it around the world and to save screens too. Screen savers exist because back in the old days screens couldnt show a static picture for an extended period of time without leaving a mark on it.
So to avoid making a mark people out there started to invent screen savers which basically all they do is making a static screen into a screen that changes without any input from the user.
Today though i think screens can show static screens without taking permanent damage, but screen savers are still here because people developped them into art.
Its art and its great!
Here for example is my screeny what is yours?
The earth revovles around and show all the major cities and how big they are in inhabitants - AWESOME! And i have the clock there too - so tight haha
My screen turns off automatically after a while. saves energy and what's the point on having fancy screen saver anyways becouse it's supposed to run where you're not on computer. :O
On November 14 2010 20:43 Piste wrote: My screen turns off automatically after a while. saves energy and what's the point on having fancy screen saver anyways becouse it's supposed to run where you're not on computer. :O
to e-brag, like what they are doing now in this thread.
On November 14 2010 20:43 Piste wrote: My screen turns off automatically after a while. saves energy and what's the point on having fancy screen saver anyways becouse it's supposed to run where you're not on computer. :O
The point of screensavers is to constantly refresh your screen so images doesn't "burn in".
If by turn off you mean completely shuts power to the screen then that's a good thing albeit unnecessary(screen uses up minimal energy anyway), however if it remains powered but the screen just goes black, you're risking burn ins.
Not my current screensaver (solid black), but here's one I used for a few years:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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