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40+ Eye-Catching Mac Screensavers
Running screensaver can help you relax your mind and suppose to reduce damage to your display screen. But most importantly, nowadays screensavers are used to mesmerize everyone around them.
Knowing the importance of having unique, stunning screensaver, we are here to present you this article which consists of many screensavers that would catch your attention. No need to have long introduction here, let's see what are those screensavers.
Note. Click on the title to go to screensaver download page.
Mac Screen Savers for Special Effects
Nowadays, screen savers are created with stunning effects combined with all possible movement enhancements. However, from all those screen savers, only few to provide screen savers with different functionality.
"Screen saver for showing movie, is such exist?" ask one of our readers. Indeed, there is such a screen saver and you will find many other screen savers with interesting ideas.
Before proceeding, you may look at other screen saver collections:
Let's proceed to special screen savers.
Top 10 Mac Screen Savers
In old times, screen savers are used to prevent your screen from Phospor burn-in. Nowadays, screen savers are used for extra entertainment and eye-candy.
With increasing number of screen savers being coded and produced, it's time consuming for you to choose the best that fits your need. Hopefully, I've filtered down to Ten Mac screen savers that will make you droll (and they're all free).
Enjoy!
Customize Flurry Screen Saver
This is for sure: Even though you use the same Flurry screen saver as mine, our screen saver won't look similar to each other. This is maybe due to the fact that, we think different.
With your Flurry screen saver, you can easily customize the settings so that it looks really different from others, which distinguish you as the Mac power user and at the same time distinguish who are reading this cool trick by UsingMac.com from others that are not reading.
So here are the steps to customize your Flurry:
- Open your System Preferences
- Go to Desktop & Screen Saver
- Move to Screen Saver section
- Choose Flurry as your screen saver
- Click on the Options… button, near lower right of the preview pane
- Adjust here and there, and make your Flurry unique!
Let's see some of my favorite Flurries.
Take a Snap of Screen Saver
Anytime you are trying to capture a screensaver, you will fail miserably as the screen saver will automatically go off when you try to press any key.
But, there is an easy way to take a snap of screen saver.
Take a Snap
- Open Apple - System Preferences…
- Go inside Desktop & Screen Saver
- Choose your screen saver
- Hold down Command-Shift and press Test button
- Hit 3 to snap the screen saver
- You can do it many times, before you decide to exit by releasing either Command or Shift key
Wallsaver, Simple Widget to Turn Your Screensaver into Moving Wallpaper
Screensavers are initially used for protecting our precious screens from burnt. Eventually, that function starts to fade away and now the one that got the most attention is the ability to make Screensaver as eye-candy.
If you haven't heard before, there is an application for Mac called Wallsaver which can transform your Screensaver into moving desktop wallpaper.
The fun thing is that, now you don't need to download the big application to turn your Screensaver into moving wallpapers, what you only need to do is Downloading 56K of Wallsaver widget here.
Whenever you want to start/stop your moving wallpaper, simply open your Dashboard with Wallsaver widget installed, click on the button once and you're set.
There are many interesting Screensavers that can be set as your moving desktop wallpaper, such as:
Unique Clock Screensavers for Mac
Polar Clock Screensaver
I am so much attracted to the smooth transition between one color to the other. Without doubt, this is the most colorful yet simple screensaver that I've ever seen.
Top 8 Mac Screensavers
Hyperspace and Helios
The screensaver is nice, giving you the image of ultra high speed. However, They are quite heavy to be processed. They can be downloaded here for Hyperspace and here for Helios.
Screensaver - Another Point of View
Do you remember the most famous Mac Screensaver,
which is named Flurry?
Screen Saver - It's Blank, not Black
With this screen saver, you can not only save your precious screen display but also save your Mac energy consumption.
What's Its Name?
This screen saver is named BlackenedPixel. It works not just by applying black color to your screen, but it blanks out all the display.
Screensaver, More Screensavers, Lots of Screensavers
Feeling bored after finishing heavy workload. Apple kindly provides these cool screensaver to enhance Mac. Let's have a look.
Flurry Screensaver
The simplicity given, the elegance, the amazement shine upon this screensaver cannot be described by human words. This is just simple yet wonderful. And it's build in on Mac.Also, there are other beautiful screensavers presented by Apple to enrich Mac Pyrotheque Screensaver and VisionSynth Screensaver.
Mac - The Sleeping Beauty
When you idle your Mac for quite a long time, your Mac will enter half asleep state and shine its beauty. The Screensaver is like this. First time I saw it, I made a big 'Wow!!' It is so beautiful, the animation is so natural, that I will skip firework party to watch this screensaver.
