Screensaver "Electric sheep" to create abstract animation using morphing etc. Although somehow understood from the name, it seems that it was made as a tribute to Philip K. Dick SF novel "Android ...

A screensaver is a function that displays an animation when a PC is not operated for a certain period of time. Windows and Macs come with a screensaver as standard, and many Linux distributions ...

Screensavers have always walked the line between fun and useful. If you use your computer all the time and usually don't leave it idle, you'd never even see a screensaver.

I tried using the My pictures slideshow screensaver built into WinXP, but it just shows the picture without any animation. I also tried installing a screesaver program & it did the same thing. Is ...

Suppose that instead of usual desktop wallpapers or a standard monitor screensaver there were your present for St. Valentine’s Day? Elefun Multimedia company, engaged in thematic screensavers and ...

The rest is screensaver history. PC users’ eyes would glaze over watching the oddly hypnotic animations for years, ironically prolonging the lifespans for many of their monitors in the process.

So, they get to make screensavers, animation clips and videogames with the help of expert tutors, all of whom are trained primary or secondary school teachers.

Jake Wallis, a BA (Hons) Digital Animation student at South Essex college in Southend created a design which is now being used on every student’s computer as a screensaver.