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After your computer sits unused for a certain amount of time, a special program called a “screensaver” runs. It may display anything from a beautiful animation, to some bland, bouncing text. The purpose of these screensavers is to, well, save your screen. They help prevent screen burn-in, which is a sort of ghost image caused by pixels displaying the same color over a long period of time.
A slideshow screensaver does not qualify, in my book, as an interesting screensaver, even if it is a slideshow of some amazing pictures of Machu Picchu. What follows is a list of some of my favorite Mac screensavers, in no particular order. All screensavers have been verified on my Mac OS X 10.9 system (and most should run as far back as 10.6). Download Beautiful 3D Screensavers for Windows and Mac OS X. Decorate your screen with Aquarium, Animals, Nature, Space, Christmas, Halloween and Sci-Fi screensaver themes 3D Screensavers, 3D Live Wallpapers and HD Background Images for PC and Mac computers, tablets and smartphones.
Today, screensavers are usually used for entertainment or aesthetical purposes. If set to, they may be followed by a login field when activity is sensed. This provides a layer of security.
Screensavers are often downloaded in one of two forms. One being a .saver file, and the other an installer package. To install the former, double-click the .saver file. You will be prompted to install the screensaver. To install the latter, simply double-click the installer and click through the installation process.
Anyways, here’s a list of twelve cool screensavers for Macintosh. Enjoy!
Hyperspace
Fly through hyperspace and shoot through wormholes with this beautiful screensaver.
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Soundstream
Lively flurries of color dance around the screen in response to sound input.
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Skyrocket
Enjoy a beautiful virtual fireworks show while your computer is asleep. Complete with city, stars, and moon.
Download it HERE
Solar Winds
Colorful particles fly around the screen in a mesmerizing pattern.
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Plasma Tunnel
Fly through an endless plasma tunnel with colors of your choice.
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LotsaWater
As you can see above, your desktop will look like a virtual pond during a light rainstorm.
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LotsaGlass
A big, morphing blob of liquid glass.
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Jack-o-lantern
Perfect for Halloween, this screensaver will display many carved pumpkins. You can even make your own design!
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Helios
Colorful, bubble-like forms float around while particles fly through and around them.
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Flux
Colorful strange attractors glide around the screen as the view flies around in 3D space.
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Fireflies
Colored diamonds fly around the screen in little formations as they leave bright trails behind them.
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Electric sheep
Sleeping computers around the world are generating amazing animated graphics. Each of them is a magnificent work of art. These animations are downloaded to your computer and displayed as screensavers.
Read more about it and download it HERE
Know of any other cool screensavers that we left out of this list? Please share them with us in the comments!
Important crash fix
Some users in northern locations could experience crashes with previous versions, if using the adapt videos to your location feature, in the case where they didn't experience an astronomical sunrise/sunset during this time of the year (users from Norway and Finland first reported the issue). Thanks for your patience, this bug is fixed in 2.3.2 and up.
A new weather API
Aerial now uses OpenWeather as a provider for its weather data, replacing the previous API that is no longer available.
I want to thank OpenWeather for their support of Open Source as on top of being able to show your current conditions, Aerial will *also* be able to show various forecasts:
More information is available from their API and based on interest, some new features should arrive in upcoming versions.
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You will also notice new color icons. On macOS Big Sur, Aerial now uses Apple's SF Symbols color icons. They will look sharper and they automatically adapt to the size of the font you pick in weather's settings.
Better message options
Messages can now be multi line, and for the most complex scenarios, Aerial can periodically display the output of a shell script.
Still new, extra videos
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After having introduced 20 extra videos in 2.0, Joshua Michaels & Hal Bergman listened to feedback and went back to work on improving them. With Aerial 2.2, you will get updated versions of those videos, many have been slowed down so they feel a lot more natural amongst the other Aerial videos, and they also have seen some optimization on video compression so they have better quality and take even less disk space ! A huge shoutout to them for their effort on this.
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If you enjoy the updated videos, please consider supporting them by checking the video packs they have created especially for Aerial on their website, those too have all been updated with better compression and slower paced videos.