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My name is Kenneth and I write cool Mac and iPhone software. This is my personal weblog where I post about stuff I find interesting. I usually write about Mac development, the business of shareware and the Mac community in general.
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Introducing Econ, the screensaver that uses you icons!
Note: This screenshot is UGLY. Screen capture just wouldn’t capture a smooth image…
Click on the screenshot to get a nice QuickTime preview of the screensaver.
Econ is Leopard-only and requires a decent graphics card & CPU.
Download Econ
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good job. Just that some of my icons not shown in it.
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If it scanned ~/Applications as well as /Applications i’d love it.
This is really interesting
This screensaver is chibby !!!
I hope You’ll do it for Tiger
This cute screensaver will surely never be available for Tiger, as I suppose it uses Core Animation which is only available for Leopard.
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Nice saver, I like it thanks. Sometimes I forget just how many little apps I have dotted around that I am never using.
One question though, how do you manage to grab a shot of the screensaver before it drops back to the desktop?
@Louis: there’s two ways:
- Timed screenshot (grab.app can do this)…
- Video recording of the screen (Snapz Pro X or iShowU can do this). This is the best way. You can then extract a still from the video with QuickTime Pro
Thanks
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just to let you know, a screensaver that did exactly this - presenting smooth flying random icons of your installed Apps -
is included in Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma) - it stays there until 10.1.5, but it gets erased after the Upgrade to X 10.2 Jaguar.
That screensaver in Puma, it is 100 % copyrighted and made by Apple, it looks EXACTLY like your screenshot, but runs on any Ati Rage Card with only 16 MB Vram, which were common back in 2001.
I would call this Project a shameless ripoff and I will imediately notify Apple to compare this with the screensaver they have made, which was and still is their intellectual property.
OS X ( even the very first Beta ) is not anbandonware which one can rip,copy or modify or implement old features into newer editions by claiming that it is “something new”.
Good Night from Germany.
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