Really useful screensaver?

[Fat Tone]

I just installed a Casio screensaver (because I just ordered a really fancy Casio watch and was browsing the site). It shows the time & date! Woo!

Just wondered if anyone knows of an interesting/useful screensaver (apart from SETI, FAH and the like)?

I guess what would make it useful is a collection of news items, a calendar, maybe an embedded calulator (obviously it wouldn't quit in the normal way), joke of the day, interesting links...who knows?

Cheers,

T.

[GNEP]

Our standard one at work (which we can't change...) is a map of the world which shows where it is day and night - and also the time at our key office locations (London, The Hague, Houston, Singapore and some others). Oh and the local time and date in big letters at the bottom.

[az]

Does standby mode count? It's useful in that it really saves your screen, and power to boot!

Anti-Virus screensavers? (Or rather, anti virus scanners that run when the screensaver is activated)

AZ

[bsdgeek]

Re: Really useful screensaver?

Off Topic:

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Originally posted by Fat Tone
Just wondered if anyone knows of an interesting/useful screensaver (apart from SETI, FAH and the like)?

You should still enjoy DF without a screensaver! Just download this and use handle 5nswmnh4.

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[Fat Tone]

hehe. I've been there, done that. Never found any aliens, folded a few gazillion proteins... saving the juice now

[Fat Tone]

More useful ideas: It should cover all monitors (be at 1, 2 or even 3 ) and it could show your unread email account.

How about if it had a mode to do some or all of this on a monitor of your choice whilst you worked?

[Nowhere]

It sounds to me Fat one that Desktop Sidebar is definetely what you want (or perhaps Codename: Dashboard).
Only one downfall: this isn't a screensaver

Infoscreen could do it probably. But it will be planning forever I guess

Something usefull you say...

How about this one? (don't tell me that fireworks aren't usefull )


Too bad that Electric Sheep is available only for *nixes

Collective dream of sleeping computers...this idea sounds highly tempting to me.

edit: OMG, there is a beta of Electric Sheep for win32 on their site!
At last...too bad I can't check how bad my 115 kb/s will handle downloading the sheeps because I won't be able to play them anyway