After installing, setting up and checking out over 50 Mac Screen Savers (!!!), we’ve narrowed our “best of” list down to our favorite 7. Each of them has been tested to ensure they work in the latest version of OS X (El Capitan, 10.11). They are all free and rather unique from each other.
Handy for quickly locking your screen (when your mac is configured to lock with the screensaver) ScreenSaver Start is a useful addition to any mac users productivity toolkit. Useful for quickly keeping prying eyes away from sensitive information. Full Playlist: -Watch more How to Use a Mac videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos. 1280x1024 CIA Screen Saver by profet on DeviantArt. 1680x1050 CIA Screensaver Download Mac. 1920x1200 CIA Central Intelligence Agency crime usa america spy. Mac OS X screen saver of the DEFCON globe. Developer: Ambrosia Software: version: 1.0: license: Freeware: updated. A screen saver that shows a procedurally generated city nightscape. Developer: Mikael Eiman: version: 1.1. CIA Screensaver. Quartz based screensaver featuring a rotating CIA logo. Developer: Mathias Andersson. Yes, screen savers are fun to look at for a few seconds, but those animations actually used to serve a purpose beyond simple entertainment. In older CRT and plasma monitors, and even newer OLED ones, leaving a static image on the screen for an extended period of time could create a burn-in, i.e., a burned in image that you'll vaguely see for a limited time (as in image persistence) or permanently.
Play classic Nintendo games from within your screen saver! This one is so awesome we wrote an entire guide on how to install and set up UberNES (link will open in a new tab/window).
You can “jump” right into games and play them from where they left off in the screen saver. Or start from the beginning.
Download: UberNES
This one is a replica of your iPhone’s “Lock Screen”. It displays the time and a (slow) moving background image, in addition to the ‘Slide to Unlock’ bar that we’re all so familiar with. As it happens, we have a whole bunch of the iOS 9 Wallpapers and Lock Screen images for you to download and use to make this screen saver even more realistic.
You can customize the screen saver in quite a few ways, from changing the wallpaper to formatting the time and text.
Download: iOS Lockscreen Screen Saver
Skyrocket is remarkably hypnotizing. It’s a never-ending “fireworks show” that takes place in a football field. Imagine yourself on a flying-carpet, zooming through a fireworks-filled night sky.
Download: Skyrocket
The name pretty much sums it up. Your monitor(s) will turn into giant “Apple Watch” clocks, which actually look pretty cool, especially when displayed on a large screen in a shared area.
Download: Apple Watch
If you like Apple’s built in screen saver “Flurry” – Flux is for you. Flurry was my go-to screen saver for years – until I discovered Flux. It’s more colorful and has a whole slew of Options you can tinker with.
Download: Flux
Euphoria is one of those “fractal/geometric” screen savers. With a whole bunch of presets and the ability to customize everything, it’s my favorite of that type.
Download: Euphoria
This one has amazing possibilities if you’re willing to do some research and a bit of trial-and-error testing. In a nutshell, Webview allows you to view webpages, including “live updating” sites, as your screen saver. Visit the Webview’s home page for a list of sites and URLs that work really well with Webview. It’s easy to customize and add your own web sites. My favorite way of utilizing Webview is to use this URL:
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?pn=p1
and get a constantly updated list of what’s trending on Google.
Download: Webview
Gone are the days when people used to set photos or pictures as a screen saver on their Mac. Now you can use a video as Mac screen saver.
Earlier, Mac users could fetch photos from the Photo Library to set them as the screen saver. Then Apple surprised Mac users by allowing them to get Apple TV aerial views screen saver. And now, the latest thing is you can set up a video as your Mac screensaver.
How to Use a Video as a Mac Screen Saver
To make this happen, you need to visit this website and download SaveHollywood on your Mac.
Step #1. When SaveHollywood.dmg is downloaded on your Mac, open the file.
Step #2. A dialog box opens with SaveHollywood file and a Read Me document. Double-click SaveHollywood file.
Step #3. You will be prompted to install the file on your Mac. You will also be asked if you want to install just for you or all users. Select either option and click on Install.
Now it is time to use your favorite video as Mac screen saver.
Usually, screen saver settings get opened during the installation of SaveHollywood; if this doesn’t happen, you can launch screen saver settings by clicking on Apple icon → System Preferences → Display (Desktop) & Screen Saver.
Step #4. Now click on Screen Saver section. A side menu appears with some screensaver options. Scroll down to the bottom and you will find SaveHollywood; click on it.
Step #5. “No videos” screen will be shown; under this black screen, now click on Screen Saver Options…
Step #6. A new dialog box appears with some options to select movies, size, frame, background, audio, volume, displays, etc.
Click on “+” sign from the top.
Step #7. Another window opens to select video; note that you can add more than one video.
Step #8. As mentioned above, you can adjust the settings for your video as per your choice.
Finally, click on OK button and start using a video as Mac screen saver.
The video will begin to play on the Desktop & Screen Saver window. From the same window, you can select minutes the screensaver videos start after.
Following this, when your Mac screen remains idle for specific minutes, the screen saver video will begin to play. Just press the space bar to get rid of the video being played as Mac screen saver.
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That’s all folks!
Signing off…
SaveHollywood is an easy way to set up videos as Mac screen saver. To my mind, this tool is quite useful for users, who doze off in front of their Mac.
A video with high sound will work as a wake-up alarm. Fun apart, SaveHollywood is a brilliant way to keep yourself motivated by some fantastic videos in office. At home, you can use videos of your family.
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