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May 27, 2008

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Stay updated, even with a screen saver

Posted May. 27, ’08, 1:59 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Software

statusSaver1.jpgHere’s a nifty little app for the ten people in the world who still use screen savers: Status Screen Saver is a plug-in for OS X that places a bar at the bottom of your screen saver with badges for the icons in your dock that display the red status indicators (like Mail, NetNewsWire, or iChat, etc). To the right of the badges are numbers that reflect the status—so you can see how many new emails you have, for example, without needing to turn the screen saver off to check your dock.

You can pick which apps are displayed, the colors of the indicators, how high you want the status bar, as well as how often you want the numbers updated.

Kind of defeats the “burn-in” protection aspect of screen savers, since there are now static images at the bottom of your display—but, really, who uses screen savers for that anymore anyway?

Status Screen Saver is free and can be downloaded from the Logan Rockmore Design website.

[via Life Hacker]


2 Comments

VMR said:

Well since the screen saver is what comes up when you lock your screen, anyone interested in both knowing what their mail status is and keeping prying hands off their system would find this pretty useful.

May 27, 2008 8:40 PM
Rich said:

"the ten people in the world who still use screen savers". Okay, so VMR is one, I'm another. We're waiting for the other eight people to comment.

Everywhere I've worked, I've had to sign a computer use agreement that states I'll use their equipment computer responsibly and securely.

May 28, 2008 1:06 PM

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