Amazing Clock Screen Savers For Your Mac 15
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A good screen saver is a must have. It shows passers by how cool your computer is when you are away. My favourite type of screen savers are clock screen savers. Simply because they are elegant, simple and they don’t suck up your computers CPU like it is going out of fashion. Anyway, this post is going to be a collection of 6 well designed clock screen savers which you can grace your computer with. These screen savers are listed in no particular order.
Fliqlo
Based on an old style flip clock, the digits will slowly flip over as time slowly passes. Unfortunately there is no options to change any of the colours of the digits. This software is free. You can download it here, click on the left most floppy disk to get the download link.
Fractal Clock
When I first came across this screen saver, I thought it was awesome. The fractal patterns moving across the screen excited the little child within me. I then realized that the white arms in the centre of the screen told the time. It does wonders reading. Anyway, this software is free. The link goes to Apple’s download site since it is simpler to download than the developers. Download it here.
PolarClock
Out of all of the screen savers in this post, PolarClock is my favourite. Concentric colour circles move around the screen. The different lengths each have a different time values. This software is free. You can download it here. As well as this you can also have an accompanying widget to brighten up your dashboard.
World Clock
Probably the best use of words for a screen saver. As seconds pass different words are highlighted representing the time. Its not very good for CRT monitors, due to some words being constantly displayed on your screen. I have previously written about this screen saver before you can find my post here. This screen saver is free and you can download it here.
Due3
A very simple screen saver. This one displays the time in the bottom left in a funky sans-serif font. In the background a simple line moves around the screen displaying the current second. Its really simple as well as free. Download it here.
DropClock
I save the best to last. This massive screen saver, 100mb+. It shows Helevtica font slowly dropping into water. Fantastic graphics. I personally haven’t been able to try this one yet. The bandwidth cap imposed by my ISP has stopped me from downloading large files. From the videos this screen saver does look awesome. It does cost $15 and can be download here.
If you know of any other well designed and beautiful clock screen savers, or just cool screen savers in general, please leave a comment below.
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15 Responses to “Amazing Clock Screen Savers For Your Mac”
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cool
Comment By Marie on September 2nd, at 3:06 am
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Comment By Salvapantallas-relojes para tu mac | Isopixel on September 3rd, at 4:50 pm
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I have a problem with the Due 3 Screensaver, apparently it is outputing way too many log messages and it’s flooding my system with it thus causing syslogd to take up much of my CPU usage. Does anyone else have this problem with it?
Comment By K on September 4th, at 4:58 pm
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Polarclock is fantastic, but I’ve noticed it makes my fan run at a fast speed. I’ve used Fliqlo for a long time and its probably my favorite clock screen saver.
Comment By Samantha on September 4th, at 7:26 pm
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A couple of these may use up a lot of CPU, they are graphic intensive.
@K I don’t know what you problem is, you are better off asking the developers.
Comment By admin on September 4th, at 7:29 pm
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I hate to be a killjoy, but letting your screen turn off or – preferably – the computer go into sleep mode is way better for the environment/electricity usage. I never use a screen saver because of this – just set the “screen turn off” time to 5 minutes and the “computer sleep” time to 15 minutes.
The amount of energy saved by letting the screen turn off on my 20 inch apple cinema display is about equal to a 40 watt light globe. Turning off the computer and associated peripherals saves 200-300 watts of power (ie equal to 2 or 3 100 watt globes). I don’t know what that equates to in dollars but from my measurements it’s one of the biggest energy users in my house.
Comment By Ricky Buchanan on September 6th, at 11:30 am
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@Ricky. I suppose turning your monitor off is good for the environment, but not as cool as watching a cool screensaver.
Comment By admin on September 6th, at 12:19 pm
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I’m with you on the “not as cool” in the immediate term, but saving money is cool (and it’s not an insignificant sum, depending on your electricity prices) and the environment matters. Ergo, I choose immediate uncoolness. It’s OK, I never was “one of the cool kids”.
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Comment By Ricky Buchanan on September 6th, at 3:34 pm
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World Clock not works fine in spanish. at 10pm he says its 11pm
In english works fineComment By Bato on September 15th, at 9:20 pm
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As a comment, i must say that DropClock uses REALLY HUGE amounts of memory and CPU time. Maybe it will work well on a MacBook Pro top series, or iMac or Mac Pro, not on MacBook Air and MacBook. I’ve tested it on a iBook G4 1.5GB RAM 1.33GHz and it goes really really slow (in fact, it’s so slow, that when you see the minutes falling, they’ve passed out and must redraw the screen xD)
Remember, it uses huge amounts of RAM, video processing, and CPU. But it worths :)
Comment By Oscar C. on September 15th, at 9:26 pm
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@Oscar it does use a lot of CPU, your just need a fast make as stated in the requirements.
Comment By admin on September 15th, at 9:41 pm
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missing on that list:
http://clocksaver.sourceforge.net
ClockSaver
ClockSaver is a port of the Screensaver-module “KClock” found in the KDE Desktop Environment to Mac OS X. It shows a simple but elegant analog clock where you can customize the colors for the clock hands, the color for the clock scale, whether a second hand should be visible, and the size of the displayed clock.
Comment By MMM on October 4th, at 10:57 pm
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Nice find MMM. I’ll check that out.
Comment By admin on October 4th, at 10:58 pm
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I just Stumbled to this post and thought I’d through up the one I use and absolutely love.
http://www.jessonyip.com/analogy/
Comment By Wesley on October 5th, at 5:14 am
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