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The Time Machine Screensaver
by Simon Kerbel Apr 17th 2008 at 6:00PM
Sure, you make fun of the chintzy Time Machine animation when you're out to sushi with your geek friends, but secretly you adore it. When the night is late, and it's just you and your Mac, you turn on Time Machine simply to gaze longingly into its starry goodness.
But don't you wish that you could just get that pesky Finder window out of the way, so you could stare into the full, unadulterated Time Machine backdrop? Well, we've got the next best thing, friend: the Time Machine Screensaver.
The Time Machine Screensaver is a Quartz Composer Movie that is pretty much an exact clone of the Time Machine animation. To install the screensaver, you can drag it onto the Screen Saver window, or put it into your default Screen Saver folder, or copy it to the Screen Saver alias included with the download. Once you see it in your Screen Saver preferences, select the Time Machine Screen Saver, and off you go.
Now, it's just you and the Time Machine. Face to face.
If you want something a little more "Leopard" themed, with the colors from the default Aurora desktop picture, you can download it from the Time Machine Screen Saver discussion forum.
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Samuel said 6:24PM on 4-17-2008
Does anybody know of a screensaver that will just show a website, full screen - its impossible to find
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Josh said 8:36PM on 4-17-2008
For those of you with older machines or aren't keen on your fans turning on, this isn't for you. Been using it for a month or two (whenever it was released and posted on MacThemes) and my MacBook runs it just fine but it has problems after about 10 minutes or so of it being on where the fans come on and it gets quite hot/loud.
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