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The one that mystifies me, is why Apple pulled their original Dubai At Night screensaver[0]. [0] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=766810966790684 (This seems to be the only place to find it online).
I was in a room of Apple TV engineers when the screensaver of I-110 in LA came on. Everyone agreed that it caused mild anxiety. I'm glad I don't see it in the rotation anymore. https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-scre...
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> the static desktop OS background Eons ago, there was a (paid) 3rd-party program for MacOS Classic that would give you a slideshow desktop background. The images were of the Golden Gate bridge, and were a timelapse over the course of a day. The changes were (afair) synced to your local solar time, so 'sunset' in the desktop background would line up with your local sunset. I'd have to search to find the name of the p…
Well, it's not for MacOS, but software to run animated wallpapers exist for Windows. One example is the very popular WallpaperEngine [0]. Another cool one (and open source) is Lively Wallpaper [1]. Selfless plug: I've also developed and released LumoTray [2] which is a wallpaper/screensaver manager for windows with some other extra features but without any animated wallpapers except slideshows as I still find it a bi…
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Debatable. They're visually too busy and noisy to see all the time.
I think laptop users rarely see much of their wallpaper, and that’s a significant fraction of users. You could even argue that, if you see your wallpaper close to “all the time”, your monitors are larger than you need most of the time.
Sometimes I'll keep an empty workspace up just to declutter and focus on something on the other monitor.
These were the best ones IMO: https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6ImlFY2hqYStNSno4Z0dBcGY... https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6IlZ2N1R4bVpXYm9DVTRPS3l...
The fish one on my 2006 white plastic macbook takes me back.
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My Apple TV shows downtown LA.
Looks like there's five active Dubai screensavers. The one parent was talking about is missing. https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-scre... also https://aerial-videos.netlify.app/ https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D011_C010_PSNK_DENOI... https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D008_C010_PSNK_v21_S... https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D002_C003_PSNK_v04_S... https://sylvan.apple.com/Vid…
"Used to" because it looks it's not updated anymore since around 2 months :(
Was thinking of re-creating the same "open-source" version of it, that would pick and show art from museums around the world every day [2].
Would some of you be interested?
And if by chance you're reading me Jimmy - I love the app and would be happy to help maintain / curate it!
[1] https://www.artdiario.com/
[2] a ton of museums provide free access to their art, such as the National Gallery of Art - https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html
The executable is inside the screen saver application package.
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS
./ScreenSaverEngine -background
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System 7... it didn't become Mac OS until 7.6 or something, and then Mac OS 8 came out very soon after that.
Also conveniently made sure that clone manufacturers (who only had a license for System 7) didn't have a modern Mac OS anymore.
I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #000 true black wallpapers to hide notches and camera holes, it can feel very difficult. Search engines don't yield good results for 4k or 5k images, and a lot of the hi-res wallpaper sub…