SE-Screensaver is a free collection of screensaver themes packed inside a single installable screensaver file. Themes include several variations on the famous "The Matrix" screensaver, a 2D slideshow that can point to an image directory on your hard drive, animated fractals, analogue and digital clocks, kaleidoscopes, amoebas, snowfall, fractal trees, and others. There are nine different themes in all, many of which have several mini variations.
I rarely feature screensavers on Freewaregenius, but I like the idea of a single screensaver packed with a wide variety of themes. The various screensaver themes on offer here have one thing in common in they are all generally very well made.
My top three screensavers from this collection are as follows:
Growing Trees: this one initially seems to be, well, not that interesting, because the trees actually take a very long time to render, but the results are awesome. Works really well if you leave your computer for a very long time and come back and see a little forest (the trees they remind me of Dyson, a game that I reviewed a while back).
Slideshow 2D: although there are many screensavers that do this sort of thing (e.g. previously reviewed Photojoy, or even a built in screensaver in Windows Vista/7), this one is a nice implementation. It has thumbnails scrolling across the bottom of the screen while one of them randomly drifts upwards into full prominence.
The Matrix-style screensaver themes and variations. what can I say I loved the movie "The Matrix" and have always been a sucker for this kind of Matrix-style screensaver. There are a number of interesting variations on the theme, including flying over a Matrix-style landscape.
Wish list (or how these can be even better)
- More settings: I found myself wishing that there were more settings for some of these, such as the ability to make some of them run faster, multiple image folders for the 2D slideshow, etc.
- Randomizing the screensavers used: I wish it were possible to, say, check the screensavers I wanted from the collection and have those rotate randomly each time the screensaver kicked in.
The verdict: SE-Screensavers offers a nice collection of robust, interesting screensavers. If you’re into this sort of thing by all means check it out.
Version Tested: 1.91
Compatibility: WinAll.
Go to the program home page to download the latest version (approx 1.2 megs).
if you like that you should check this out.
http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~dastone/winxscreensaver/
They’re windows ports of linux screensavers.
I think I will try this out, since I’ve been using the same screensaver (Word Clock) for the past few months now and am due for some kind of change.
Word Clock’s great as an interesting (and super easy on the mind) way of displaying the time, so there’s still a strong possibility that I will go back to it once the novelty of new screensavers wears off.
To get Word Clock: http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/
*runs off to try shiny new thingies*
Hi all..
I recommend Flurry (windows port) and fliqlo.. The digital clock stuff looks like a rip off of fliqlo…
I hope you consider listing a few favorite screensavers that don’t require high CPU or GPU usage to render. No need to exercise your chips in the summertime if you’re not even using the PC.
actually, several of the ‘savers including in this package seem to be low impact. Nice find.
Nice selection but is there a trick to get them to work on mulit-monitor setups ?