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Thursday, November 21, 2002
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Run a screensaver as you desktop background on Mac OS X -- Comment()
You can run a screensaver as a background image of your desktop in Mac OS X. I tried this with the Marine Aquarium screensaver, and it works beautifylly! (At least on the the 1 GHz PowerBook G4.) The desktop can be a bit distracting, though. Running the Marine Aquarium screensaver as background with the max number of fish seems to take about 50% of the cpu capacity, so this is probly not a good idea while doing some cpu-intensive work on the PowerBook. Running a built-in screensaver as background, for example Beach or Forest, takes only a few percent of the cpu capacity (2-6%). By the way, when using Marine Aquarium as the screensaver (with other application running) on my 600 MHz iBook I get about 10 frames per second. On the 1 GHz PowerBook G4 I get 60-90 frames per second.
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Here is recommended reading list based on the links on this weblog. This Newdoor tool was developed by Mark Pilgrim. Nice work!
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I added some details to the review of the 1 GHz PowerBook G4: comments about the fan noise, and experiences of attaching an external FireWire hard disk to the PowerBook.
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