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4 unusual facts about screensaver


Fast Girl/Beware Wolf

The Limited Edition Maxi-Single included music videos for "Fast Girl" and "Beware Wolf" as well as a making of the respective music videos and a Screensaver.

Gnome-screensaver

On some GNOME-based Linux distributions, it is used instead of the framework that is a part of XScreenSaver.

Screen Savers

Screensavers, computer programs intended to preserve CRT monitors from "burn-in"

Screensaver

The first screensaver was allegedly written for the original IBM PC by John Socha, best known for creating the Norton Commander; he also coined the term screen saver.


Electric Sheep

The screensaver was created and released as free software by Scott Draves in 1999 and continues to be developed by him and a team of about five engineers.

Joan Blades

Joan Blades (b. ca. 1956 in Berkeley, California) was the cofounder in 1987 with her husband Wes Boyd of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the After Dark screensaver and the You Don't Know Jack trivia game.

Johnny Castaway

Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1993 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand.

Money Can't Buy

The DVD also included a PC ROM section which features desktop wallpapers, screensavers.

Smart Messaging

Most Monochrome Nokia handsets allow the picture message to act as a screensaver.

Starfield

3D Starfield, an effect simulating forward movement through Outer space amidst a field of stars; included as a screensaver with some versions of Microsoft Windows

The Forever Changes Concert

There was a two-CD re-release in 2007 under the name of The Forever Changes Concert & More, which features extra songs, a live video of Alone Again Or, band images and a screensaver.


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