This Sailor Moon Screensaver is centered around a highly talented schoolgirl who fights against evil. This pretty defender of the Earth is waiting for you to bring a little magic to your desktop. Enjoy romantic Sailor Moon pictures.
Features :
* Beautiful images
* Variety of exciting scenes
* Thrilling transition effects
* Enjoy romantic Sailor Moon pictures!
System Requirements :
* Windows 9x/2k/Me/XP
* Pentium II or higher
* 16 Mb Video Memory
http://www.freewarezoom.com/archives/sailor-moon-screensaver
Friday, November 16, 2007
Vista screensaver inspired WMP visualizations, “Psychedelia Visualization Pack”
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think it’s been at least two Windows releases since any new or updated Windows Media Player visualizations. Sure, what comes in the box are still visualizations by definition, but I couldn’t consider any of them eye-candy. Recently, a new visualization pack made by two Microsoft employees in their spare time is worth checking out.
Stephen Coy, the designer of the Windows Vista screensavers and Tim Cowley, a software engineer on the Office team have come together to release a visualizations pack for Windows Media Player called “Psychedelia” two years in the making. But don’t worry, no LSD drugs involved.
As a requirement to run these visualizations, you will need a graphics card that supports at least shader model 2.0 (most DirectX 9 graphics cards will), which might seem like a high requirement for visualizers, but how else are you suppose to create visual magic right?
Included in the single package are 7 visualizations with over 40 variations in total, including
* Album Art 3D - 3D cubes with the album art of the song you’re currently playing
* Bubbles - inspired by the Bubbles Vista screensavers also featuring the album art
* Distortion - distorts the album art in a 3D waveform
* Hypnobloom - hypnotic checkered purple rings
* Ribbons - inspired by the Mystify and Ribbons Vista screensavers (as seen above)
* Gigertron 3D - 3D layered visualizer bars
* up cuber - a pigment arrangement of 3D hexagon cubes
I’ve never been a big fan of visualizers before but I’m hooked onto “Ribbons”. If you’re looking for some awesome WMP visualizers or something to match your Vista screensavers, then give Psychedelia a try. It’s a reasonably light download at 5MB but best of all it’s free!
http://www.windowsvistaplace.com/vista-screensaver-inspired-wmp-visualizations-%E2%80%9Cpsychedelia-visualization-pack%E2%80%9D/windows
Stephen Coy, the designer of the Windows Vista screensavers and Tim Cowley, a software engineer on the Office team have come together to release a visualizations pack for Windows Media Player called “Psychedelia” two years in the making. But don’t worry, no LSD drugs involved.
As a requirement to run these visualizations, you will need a graphics card that supports at least shader model 2.0 (most DirectX 9 graphics cards will), which might seem like a high requirement for visualizers, but how else are you suppose to create visual magic right?
Included in the single package are 7 visualizations with over 40 variations in total, including
* Album Art 3D - 3D cubes with the album art of the song you’re currently playing
* Bubbles - inspired by the Bubbles Vista screensavers also featuring the album art
* Distortion - distorts the album art in a 3D waveform
* Hypnobloom - hypnotic checkered purple rings
* Ribbons - inspired by the Mystify and Ribbons Vista screensavers (as seen above)
* Gigertron 3D - 3D layered visualizer bars
* up cuber - a pigment arrangement of 3D hexagon cubes
I’ve never been a big fan of visualizers before but I’m hooked onto “Ribbons”. If you’re looking for some awesome WMP visualizers or something to match your Vista screensavers, then give Psychedelia a try. It’s a reasonably light download at 5MB but best of all it’s free!
http://www.windowsvistaplace.com/vista-screensaver-inspired-wmp-visualizations-%E2%80%9Cpsychedelia-visualization-pack%E2%80%9D/windows
Axialis Professional Screensaver Producer
There are hundreds of programs out there for creating screensavers, but this has to be one of the most comprehensive. You can create a multitude of different types - sprite, Flash, video or FLI/FLC (a common 3D animation format) based, or slideshow style screensavers.
The program is very easy to use, although it does appear rather daunting at first, what with its huge array of buttons. Overcome this, though, and you'll soon be whizzing through the creation process.
The program's interface will be familiar to most, closely mimicking Windows Explorer. You view, create, edit and compile your screensavers in separate windows within this Explorer-type interface.
As you would expect, all the images, graphics, animations and other content you wish to use in your screensavers have to be designed elsewhere, and Axialis is simply used to piece everything together. Should you wish to, you can make use of the various media provided with the program.
Screensavers can be compiled either as a plain screensaver file (.scr) for placing in the Windows system folder, or as a self-executable file for distribution. The latter option installs itself in the same manner as a normal program, and is ideal for distributing your screensaver or offering as a download.
Although not for the beginner, this is great for those with some experience. If you want something truly simple, try Fandango 2.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2127892/axialis-professional-screensaver-producer
The program is very easy to use, although it does appear rather daunting at first, what with its huge array of buttons. Overcome this, though, and you'll soon be whizzing through the creation process.
The program's interface will be familiar to most, closely mimicking Windows Explorer. You view, create, edit and compile your screensavers in separate windows within this Explorer-type interface.
As you would expect, all the images, graphics, animations and other content you wish to use in your screensavers have to be designed elsewhere, and Axialis is simply used to piece everything together. Should you wish to, you can make use of the various media provided with the program.
Screensavers can be compiled either as a plain screensaver file (.scr) for placing in the Windows system folder, or as a self-executable file for distribution. The latter option installs itself in the same manner as a normal program, and is ideal for distributing your screensaver or offering as a download.
Although not for the beginner, this is great for those with some experience. If you want something truly simple, try Fandango 2.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2127892/axialis-professional-screensaver-producer
Create Icons to Start the Screensaver on Windows Vista
Reader Jeffrey wrote in asking how to create an icon to start up the screensaver in Windows Vista. This question is so common that I figured I'd write up the answer for everybody, as well as provide a downloadable set of shortcuts to all the default screensavers.
You can read how to actually do this, or skip down and just download the set of shortcuts and choose the ones you want.
Create Screensaver Icon
Right-click on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut from the menu.
In order to launch the screensaver, you'll need to enter the full path to the screensaver file, followed by "/s"
You would want to substitute the name of the screensaver where you see "Bubbles.scr" above. Also note that I used %systemroot% instead of C:\windows because not every install uses the C: drive.
If you don't know the filename, you can browse down to your system32 folder and then search for ".scr" using the search box:
You should see all of the names of all the screensavers installed on your system, which you can use in the location field.
Download Shortcut Icons
If you've prefer, I made shortcuts for all the default screensavers and zipped them up. You can just download and extract the file, and then use whichever ones you want.
Note: I'm fairly certain I didn't miss any default screensavers in the list, but it's certainly possible since it's 6am and I'm still awake.
Download Start Screensaver Icons
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-icons-to-start-the-screensaver-on-windows-vista/
You can read how to actually do this, or skip down and just download the set of shortcuts and choose the ones you want.
Create Screensaver Icon
Right-click on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut from the menu.
In order to launch the screensaver, you'll need to enter the full path to the screensaver file, followed by "/s"
You would want to substitute the name of the screensaver where you see "Bubbles.scr" above. Also note that I used %systemroot% instead of C:\windows because not every install uses the C: drive.
If you don't know the filename, you can browse down to your system32 folder and then search for ".scr" using the search box:
You should see all of the names of all the screensavers installed on your system, which you can use in the location field.
Download Shortcut Icons
If you've prefer, I made shortcuts for all the default screensavers and zipped them up. You can just download and extract the file, and then use whichever ones you want.
Note: I'm fairly certain I didn't miss any default screensavers in the list, but it's certainly possible since it's 6am and I'm still awake.
Download Start Screensaver Icons
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-icons-to-start-the-screensaver-on-windows-vista/
Inspirational Screensaver
Last spring I made a screensaver, or rather a series of images that you can turn into one. The images contain quotes from very ingenious people. And all quotes have an inspirational message - to do better, to change the way you think or to make you smile.
As a free Christmas extra, I offer this screensaver to you - maybe you can enjoy the quotes as much I have.
Installation Instructions
Since it essentially is just a series of images, there is no setup file.
1. Simply place all the images into an empty folder.
2. Open your screensaver control panel (display control panel on XP)
3. Choose the standard screensaver that turns a bunch of images into a slideshow. This is called "My Pictures Slideshow" in Windows XP - I cannot recall what it is called in Mac OS X, but it is available.
4. Sit back and enjoy :)
Download
* Screensaver 1024x768 (Compressed file (ZIP) - 223kb)
* Screensaver 1600x1200 (Compressed file (ZIP) - 375kb)
http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Fantastic-World/screensaver/
As a free Christmas extra, I offer this screensaver to you - maybe you can enjoy the quotes as much I have.
Installation Instructions
Since it essentially is just a series of images, there is no setup file.
1. Simply place all the images into an empty folder.
2. Open your screensaver control panel (display control panel on XP)
3. Choose the standard screensaver that turns a bunch of images into a slideshow. This is called "My Pictures Slideshow" in Windows XP - I cannot recall what it is called in Mac OS X, but it is available.
4. Sit back and enjoy :)
Download
* Screensaver 1024x768 (Compressed file (ZIP) - 223kb)
* Screensaver 1600x1200 (Compressed file (ZIP) - 375kb)
http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Fantastic-World/screensaver/
Customizing your screensaver in GNOME
One popular screensaver in Ubuntu is “Floating Ubuntu”, which displays a number of Ubuntu logos floating around the screen. This screensaver exists in many different flavours; for example in Ubuntu you can also find “Floating Feet”, that has the GNOME logo instead of Ubuntu’s; or, on Debian you have Debian’s “swirls” floating around. I thought that it would probably be easy to customize it and have an image of my choice floating around instead. Unfortunately, screensavers in Ubuntu are not configurable using the GUI so I had to hack the screensaver myself. Here’s how I did it.
When the company I work for gave me a personal laptop for the on-call service, I christened it “tyrrell”, naming it after the Formula 1 team that was was bought by British-American Tobacco and raced its last season in 1998. If the name of this team doesn’t ring a bell, then you may remember the Tyrrell P34 car, known as “six-wheeler”: the one and only six-wheeled Formula 1 car to race in the World Championship. If you still don’t know what I am talking about, don’t worry! It’s not that important as far as this article is concerned.
Anyway, I decided that I wanted a Floating Tyrrell screensaver, with the team’s logo floating around on the screen. Doing some research on Google, I found that what I needed was a file in the /usr/share/applications/screensavers directory, and that Floating Ubuntu’s configuration file was ubuntu_theme.desktop. Now if you look into the file you’d easily guess what you need to do to customize the screensaver with an image of your choice:
You just need to change the Name, Comment, and the image path in the Exec line. Since you need administrative rights to do that, you’d better open a terminal (in menu Applications→Accessories→Terminal), type the command sudo -s and insert your administrative password. After doing this successfully, you’ll have a root shell, so behave!.
Once you have a root shell, you need to create a new file for your screensaver. I suggest to do it this way:
Now we have a new tyrrell-floaters.desktop file that you can customize at will. Type gedit tyrrell-floaters.desktop to open the file in the text editor. My tyrrell-floaters.desktop file is below:
Now go in the System→Preferences→Screensaver menu, and find the “Floating Tyrrell” item in the “Screensaver theme” column. Click on it and you’ll get a preview of your customized screensaver. Yes, you’ve finished already!
One small note at the end: I used a raster, JPEG image. You’ll get better results if you use vector images, e.g. images in the SVG format (Scalable Vector Graphics) that scale without deteriorating in quality. For example, the image used in the Floating Ubuntu screensaver is an SVG: you can size it up or down without losing any definition.
Disclaimer: the Tyrrell images I used in this article were found on the internet; I believe they are public and it’s legal to use them. In case I went wrong, please just contact me with full ownership credentials and I’ll promptly remove them.
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/customizing_your_screensaver
When the company I work for gave me a personal laptop for the on-call service, I christened it “tyrrell”, naming it after the Formula 1 team that was was bought by British-American Tobacco and raced its last season in 1998. If the name of this team doesn’t ring a bell, then you may remember the Tyrrell P34 car, known as “six-wheeler”: the one and only six-wheeled Formula 1 car to race in the World Championship. If you still don’t know what I am talking about, don’t worry! It’s not that important as far as this article is concerned.
Anyway, I decided that I wanted a Floating Tyrrell screensaver, with the team’s logo floating around on the screen. Doing some research on Google, I found that what I needed was a file in the /usr/share/applications/screensavers directory, and that Floating Ubuntu’s configuration file was ubuntu_theme.desktop. Now if you look into the file you’d easily guess what you need to do to customize the screensaver with an image of your choice:
You just need to change the Name, Comment, and the image path in the Exec line. Since you need administrative rights to do that, you’d better open a terminal (in menu Applications→Accessories→Terminal), type the command sudo -s and insert your administrative password. After doing this successfully, you’ll have a root shell, so behave!.
Once you have a root shell, you need to create a new file for your screensaver. I suggest to do it this way:
Now we have a new tyrrell-floaters.desktop file that you can customize at will. Type gedit tyrrell-floaters.desktop to open the file in the text editor. My tyrrell-floaters.desktop file is below:
Now go in the System→Preferences→Screensaver menu, and find the “Floating Tyrrell” item in the “Screensaver theme” column. Click on it and you’ll get a preview of your customized screensaver. Yes, you’ve finished already!
One small note at the end: I used a raster, JPEG image. You’ll get better results if you use vector images, e.g. images in the SVG format (Scalable Vector Graphics) that scale without deteriorating in quality. For example, the image used in the Floating Ubuntu screensaver is an SVG: you can size it up or down without losing any definition.
Disclaimer: the Tyrrell images I used in this article were found on the internet; I believe they are public and it’s legal to use them. In case I went wrong, please just contact me with full ownership credentials and I’ll promptly remove them.
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/customizing_your_screensaver
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Microsoft sues creator of spyware screensaver
Microsoft today said that it has filed suit against the creators of a "notorious spyware program" which recently also had been the targeted by the Federal Trade Commission. Microsoft said that "Timothy P. Taylor and others" used celebrity screen savers and "other seemingly benign programs" as trojan horses to secretly install unwanted software on computers of Internet users.
According to a press release, Microsoft seeks damages from the spyware distributors based on the rules set by the Washington Computer Spyware Act and the Washington Consumer Protection Act.
Microsoft said that Taylor's screensavers showed pictures of well-known celebrities such as Jessica Simpson. Once installed, the software "called home" and downloaded numerous other programs that "bombard users with unwanted pop-up advertisements, track users' Internet activity, redirect their Internet browsers to unwanted pages, add icons to the Windows desktop, and change the users' Windows Registry settings."
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/29746/118/
According to a press release, Microsoft seeks damages from the spyware distributors based on the rules set by the Washington Computer Spyware Act and the Washington Consumer Protection Act.
Microsoft said that Taylor's screensavers showed pictures of well-known celebrities such as Jessica Simpson. Once installed, the software "called home" and downloaded numerous other programs that "bombard users with unwanted pop-up advertisements, track users' Internet activity, redirect their Internet browsers to unwanted pages, add icons to the Windows desktop, and change the users' Windows Registry settings."
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/29746/118/
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