I don’t run Leopard, so I can’t speak for it, but the Tiger OS definitely falls short in providing cool screen savers. Sure, that squiggly 3D tentacle light beam is cool, but other than that, the options pretty much consist of photo slide-shows.
The Hills is an open source screen saver developed by Chris Kent. It depicts a beautifully rendered 3D landscape of rolling hills that you fly over in what must be a virtual helicopter. It includes options that let you change the height of the hills and the speed at which you fly, add different colored fog, and even reveal the wireframe structure of the hills.
Originally hosted on the developer’s .mac account, his bandwidth limits were exceeded, and the app was yanked. Fortunately, the good folks at Cult of Mac have stepped up and are hosting it themselves.
Screen savers might not serve a functional purpose anymore, but it’s nice to be greeted by serene rolling hills when you return to your idling Mac. Check it out.
Dude, you should get Leopard! Just sayin' is all.... Ask Moren to buy it for you.
Wot? No Teletubbies?
You don't use Leopard? Can I ask why?
I've been holding out on Leopard because I work with a lot of pro audio apps (Reason, Melodyne, Logic Pro, Apogee Maestro), and there's always risk of transition issues when upgrading to a new OS. At this point, I'm pretty sure most of these apps have been updated to support Leopard, but with everything working so well on Tiger, I have yet to feel compelled to upgrade. It will happen eventually, I'm sure. Just not quite yet...
Dude. Screen Share. That alone will make you love Leopard.
Leopard is cool, but Tiger works just fine. Some of us are still using G3 or G4 Mac's that can't run Leopard. My kids have a couple of G3 iMacs, that work just fine on OS X.2.8 and don't need Tiger.
>Ask Moren to buy it for you.
Totally agree. I saw the new MacWorld on the stand the other day, and the guy was all over the back page. We know that is premium stuff, and he is pulling down some serious coinage now. Moren should buy you a new MacBook Pro for all the things you done for him.
:D