When Microsoft did away with a whole bunch of screen savers in Windows 7, it really ticked off a lot of people – yours truly included. Most ‘full’ desktop Linux distributions come bundled with at least 50 screen savers (and even over 100, depending on distro). Some are great and some not-so great, so here are my picks for the top 20 Linux...

Summed up, the screen savers in Windows 7 suck. Big time. For most of them, which are darned few, when you try to customize them, you get this:This is, in fact, a lie. You do have the ability to customize these. However the way in which it’s done requires registry hacking. For example, how to do this for “Mystify” is here, and the process is...

“Screen saver” style imagery is nothing new on television sets as the sets and console DVD players themselves have had them for years. However they’re all boring. The most you’ll see is the logo of the company who made the DVD player or television and not much else, if anything. Using Windows Live Movie Maker Beta, it’s easy to...

Two web sites that are all about eye candy for for Linux are KDE-Look and GNOME-Look. You get your pick of the litter when it comes to.. well.. everything in a desktop environment using Linux. Wallpapers, themes, styles, window decorations, icons, cliparts, system sounds, splash screens, bootsplash, VLC themes, Xine themes.. the list goes on and on and on. So if...

Electric Sheep is a screen saver application. If you’re the type that likes cool looking 3D  style animations, this software is definitely for you. The single coolest thing about Electric Sheep is that people are submitting new “sheep” all the time. What this means is that someone will upload a new 3D style pattern for the screen saver and...