Some Other Stuff
- ScreenSavers For Mac OSX
Early 2005, I wrote two simple Cocoa Screensaver for Mac OSX.
Basically, they just display the photos from one of your directories... but they do it with "style" :-D
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1) PostCardSaver :
Display the photos one by one, on top of each other.
The idea is to give the feeling that you're looking at a desk while throwing photos on top of it, one after the other.
Features :
- slight random rotation of photos ON/OFF
- white border ON/OFF/Adjustable
- display on current desktop ON/OFF (i.e. do not wipe screen clean before running the screensaver)
- include sub-directories
- adjustable display time
- adjustable number of photos to display before cleaning the screen
- 4 different size of photo scaling
Screenshot : here and
here
Download:
- Source Code
here
- Binary for OSX 10.3
here
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2) PostCardPanelSaver :
Does pretty much the same as the above screensaver, BUT... display more than one photos at each iteration.
The idea is to give the feeling that you're looking at a panel on the wall, with photos pinned on it.
Features :
- same features as the above screensaver
- Adjustable number of photos of each size to display
Screenshot : here
Download:
- Source Code
here
- Binary for OSX 10.3
here
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
- These softwares are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). They come with NO WARRANTY.
- A copy of the GPL text is included in the above files.
- These were my first applications in Objective-C (apart from the classic "Hello World").
BUT... don't panic, I've got some experience with other languages (C++, Java, etc...) so these screensaver should not have too many bugs... I hope :-D
If you find bugs, write fixes, or improvements to the code and would like to share them, please drop me a mail.
Last but not least, many thanks to Seb for the discussions and ideas on this little "pet-project".
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