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Use Apple TV’s awesome screensaver on the Mac

Aerial screensaver
If you have an Apple TV, you know the screensaver they have set up is just awesome. It’s a flyover video of various locations throughout the world, and the footage is gorgeous. Now you can have the exact same screensaver on your Mac!

Download Aerial here and you’ll be good to go.
Aerial screensaver options
Aerial has 10 cities throughout the world, and offers a day and night flyover of each which you can turn on and off in the screensaver options. If you have multiple displays, Aerial will allow you to show different screensavers on each display if you wish.

Aerial is free and requires macOS Mavericks and above.

Apple Watch screensaver for OS X

Apple Watch screensaver

If you like having new screensaver on your Mac, grab this Apple Watch screensaver from Rasmus Nielsen. With 5 different watch faces and 15 color combinations to choose from, it’s Retina-ready, free and looks beautiful. You can download it here.

Free application icon screensaver

While the true usefulness of screensavers can be debated (screen burn-in for the most part is a thing of the past), there’s no debating that they’re just plain fun to look at.

Econ uses the icons in your Applications folder to create a nifty screensaver of the icons flying through space. The video above is rather choppy, but the actual screensaver is quite fluid, and looks awesome on a large screen.

Cool OSX clock screensaver

I came across this screensaver the other day and thought it was so cool I couldn’t wait to share it. Analogy, from Jesson Yip, is a typographic clock that presents an everyday object with a fresh twist.

The screensaver looks just like what you see above, and also offers an inverted version on a black background, which you configure in the screensaver prefs.

Prevent screen dimming, screensavers and sleep on your laptop with Caffeine

If you work on a MacBook or MacBook Pro you probably have the laptop set to sleep after a certain amount of time, and the screen to dim after a certain period of inactivity, in order to save battery life. The problem is that sometimes the dimming or sleep feature activates at an inopportune time – such as reading long documents or Web pages. You could adjust your EnergySaver preference settings, but that’s a pain – and if you forget to switch it back, your battery drains even faster. Enter Caffeine from Lighthead Software. This free piece of software prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Caffeine is easily activated by clicking the menubar icon. Another click deactivates it. You can also tell Caffeine to turn off after a specified number of minutes by Command + clicking on the icon. A checkbox in the preferences sets Caffeine as a startup application, so it’s always there when you need it. I recently started using Caffeine on my MacBook Pro and love it. It’s a one-trick pony, but it does the trick very well.

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