Free screensavers software for mac

Mac logo screensavers 1.0 offers you a convenient collection of 4 free animated Mac logo screensavers which is created using iScreenMaker. The animation is just a simple fade in and fade out (for those who like something a bit more minimalist).

The GL Screensavers package contains 5 OpenGL 3d screensaver modules ported to Mac OS X from the XScreenSaver distribution. To install them, open the "Modules" folder in the disk image and copy the files in that folder to the "Screen Savers" folder in the "Library" folder of your home directory. (Create the "Screen Savers" folder if it does not exist). After you do this, the screensavers should appear in the "Screen Saver" pane in System Preferences. Additionally, all the screensavers have been verified to run well in SaverLab. For best results, Mac OS X 10.1 or later and an OpenGL accelerated graphics card are strongly recommended.

The following is a brief description of each screensaver module:

Impossible Cage: Displays a rotating cube whose edges cross each other in a physically impossible manner.

Circuit: Displays moving and rotating electrical components such as resistors, chips, and LEDs. You can configure the number of pieces and whether they spin as they move.

Infinite Stairs: Displays and rotates a staircase whose stairs appear to be constantly ascending.

Moebius Ants: Displays a Moebius strip with ants marching on it. Configuration options allow you to display a solid or wireframe strip and to hide the ants.

Rubik: Displays a rotating Rubiks Cube which repeatedly shuffles and solves itself. You can configure the number of random moves made when shuffling, and change the size of the cube up to 8x8x8.

By default, on multiple monitor systems only the main monitor will run the screensaver; others will be blank. If you check the "Use All Screens" checkbox which appears in each of the configuration sheets, the screensavers will run on all screens. Generally you should not run on all monitors unless all of them support OpenGL acceleration.

iTunes keeps information about how often a song was played, but this information is not correct if it still plays my music when Im away from my Mac.
So this application will run silently in the background and watch for the screensaver. If the screensaver starts and iTunes is playing the playback is paused. As soon as the screensaver stops the music plays again.
This application was made in Realbasic in only 10 minutes. Some classes from the MBS Realbasic Plugin helped:
First we have a subclass of the CarbonApplicationEventsMBS class which receives an event from the system whenever an application is launched.
Using the ProcessMBS class we check whether the launched application is the screen saver and whether iTunes is running. In case iTunes runs we stop the music using an AppleScript which is compiled and executed using the AppleScriptMBS class.
In the event handler for terminating applications we check if this is the screen saver. In case the screen saver quits we tell iTunes to play again.
This application has no interface and it will quit if you log out but if you want to quit this app without logging out you can use the Process Viewer to quit the process.
Enhancements:
- Moved project to Realbasic 5.5 and newer plugins.
- Fixed problem with users of Script Debugger from latenightsw.com.

Since there seem to be so many ex-BeOS users moving to MacOS X, I decided to start bringing some of BeOSs screensavers along for the ride.

MaxScreenSaver 1.1 is recognised as a cool, marvelous freeware screensaver for the Macintosh including many modules from the popular UNIX screensavers xscreensaver and xlockmore.

Requirements: PPC

Swirl is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X.

Swirl is a quick port of the X-Window Screensaver.

To install the ScreenSaver, drag the Swirl.saver file into the ScreenSavers folder inside your Library folder or into the ScreenSavers folder inside the System Library folder.