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Download Bing Australia Cute & Charming Screensaver

If you like wildlife, you will certainly like the new Bing screensaver available today for download on Windows computers, namely the Bing Australia Cute & Charming pack. It is based on a series of high-resolution images that present animals in their natural habitats from all over Australia. Bing imagery has been...

28 January 2012
05:55 GMT

Free Office 2010 Getting Started Screensaver

Office 2010 has been around for quite a while, over a year in fact, but it’s only now that Microsoft is providing customers with a screensaver designed to help them get started using the latest iteration of the productivity suite. Office 2010 Getting Started Screensaver is available free of charge from the Mic...

14 July 2011
10:01 GMT

Screensaver Triggers Microsoft Security Essentials Scan

Even if this is not included among Microsoft Security Essentials’ scheduling plans, there is a way to trigger the application to update its virus definitions and perform a system check whenever the computer is idle.Security Essentials Screensaver can help you with this. It is designed to trigger Microsoft Secur...

14 October 2010
13:51 GMT

Customize Your Desktop with a Push of a Button

The desktop is one of the most important parts of your operating system. It works like a bridge between all your applications, files and folders and serves as a support for your shortcuts or other widgets. A handy feature is the fact that you can customize it according to your needs. You can change the background pic...

22 November 2009
09:31 GMT

Add Some Zen to Your PC

There was a time when screensavers were used as a protecting measure for monitors, displaying an animation because a static image would remain carved on the tube. Now they are used merely due to the fact that they look good and give your computer screen a distinct appearance when in idle mode. Yes, nowadays the scree...

27 January 2009
12:31 GMT

Burn Your Desktop When You Are Away

The first screensavers appeared on the “scene” to protect CRT computer monitors, similar to television sets, from crashing. After that, developers thought about images that moved against a black background, interesting images that would change position on the computer screen, which would be a much better ...

2 January 2009
05:31 GMT

Explore the Beautiful Earth on Your Desktop

I have always believed that there is too much desktop space that remains unused, unless you like crammed places, which I don't. And since I am that kind of person who tries to find a solution to every problem, I started looking for functionality for my desktop background, one that wouldn't eat up my barely ...

6 November 2008
04:01 GMT

Legitimate Screensavers Used in Malware Attacks

Malware writers turn to all kinds of techniques in order to trick people, infect their computers and reach their goal, no matter if we're talking about stealing some data or just luring them on malicious websites. As part of their latest attempt, attackers who built rogue security applications even implemented l...

29 May 2008
16:51 GMT

Top Pranks for Your Workmates

Working for a famous company is great, especially for those who enjoy their job and do whatever they like. Most employees are grouped in teams, specialized on certain aspects of their job, working together in order to improve productivity and get better results. Because of that, monotony is just a matter of time so i...

19 April 2008
13:13 GMT

Hack the Windows Vista Aurora Borealis

Windows Vista goes a long way when it comes to personalization options, but for some reason, Microsoft has stopped short of allowing users full control over the customization of the screensavers that ship with the operating system by default. One of the screensavers that is built in Windows Vista is the Aurora. If yo...

30 April 2007
11:16 GMT

Google Pack Updated and Available for Download!

Google Pack, the suite of freeware utilities for any computer, was updated again with several attracting features. As you might know, Google Pack is a free collection released by Google that contains numerous useful applications designed by the search giant and offered by other companies. Today, Google announced seve...

28 March 2007
02:33 GMT

Corners Of Nature

Screensavers as an idea are more and more apart from what they were created for. And I stand for this taking into account two different reasons although both of them concern safety. The first one is about the safety of your monitors and especially the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) ones. When a CRT screen displays the same i...

27 March 2007
12:57 GMT


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