Enough with this absurd, irrelevant and pedantic rant about screensavers not being necessary anymore. WE KNOW THAT! Who doesn’t here? It is hammered everytime a screensaver or screensaver maker is offered. By the way, we French don’t call them screensavers (économiseurs d’écran) anymore, but standby screens (écrans de veille) which is exactly what they are now. So call them standby screens, if it can help, and feel free to use them! In my life I distract a certain -reasonable - amount of time for totally useless, unproductive, uneconomical activities like art, culture, friendship, leisure, and… yes… fun, mere fun, desperately purposeless fun. I expect the same from my computer, which is supposed to reflect me.

Regarding the energy waste issue, videogames certainly play a more important part in global warming than screensavers! And why would it be more noble, respectable, trendy, geeky, to spend hours machine-gunning zombies or aliens than minutes looking at little rabbits making leaps in a meadow? (Not my personal choice, but protecting the galaxy from invaders is not either.)

I personally create my own screensavers with animation or slideshow programs, some of them found here, and I use a manager to start them randomly after 5 minutes of no activity. It is the amount of daydreaming I authorize myself before being gently reminded, by music and photos or images of my choice, that it is time to stop staring stupidly at my idle screen, and focus again. And you know what? sometimes, I admit, I would spare a few more minutes watching, during which you won’t even make me feel guilty about this “useless” extra energy consumption, as I sort my garbage, use the public transportation system etc. And the hell with the difference between CRT screens, LCD screens and whatever they can be made with!

Specifically about today’s giveaway, main new features to justify the upgrade for those who already have ASM from last giveaway of version 3.1.5:
- a zoom (called ”navigator”) to work more precisely with brushes;
- the support of text;
- a new smoke animation, improvement of the lightning animation;
- 5 new brushes: radial wave, zoom, rotation, stream, bend, plus an improvement of the drift brush.
Etc.

ouialaraison  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+193)

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Well, to begin with, my computer is always on. I personally enjoy the screensavers. There are times I just sit back to watch them while reading a book. I'm not expecting a fireplace, or a beach view, or a koi pond, or any other number of things, anytime soon, and I sure don't want to see the same desktop every single time I walk by the computer. So I enjoy a good screensaver as well as the kids. That being said, this program is fun and really simple. There is no need to downgrade it or belittle the company for making "useless" programs. Which it seems you all seem to love doing. If you don't like it, who cares? If you shut your computer off to save money, who cares? If you don't try the program, don't download it. Don't talk about it, don't complain about it, don't down vote it. Honestly that just shows you being ignorant. Is it really so hard to close a tab or window without complaining about something you don't or won't use? Since I'm one of the few, GOOD JOB Desktop Paints! Terrific program that is fun to use.

Levitiquetus  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+63)

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This GAOTD is a pretty good software for animating static photos and building screensavers, but I'm afraid that it's also pretty much useless!!

In fact SCREENSAVERS are no longer necessary nowadays...this is why:

http://www.howtogeek.com/128644/htg-explains-why-screen-savers-are-no-longer-necessary

So I can't figure out why there are still developers out there who stubbornly try to sell useless software like this GAOTD charging 30 bucks for that (and I also wonder why screensavers are offered here at least once a week).

BEST FREEWARE ALTERNATIVES???

Well, as far as I'm concerned, there are just a few ones on the market maybe because screensavers are so useless and resource hogs programs that any developer out there is interested to waste his time by offering a piece of software like this GAOTD for FREE.....LOL!!

Anyway, joking aside a good FREE alternative may be the superb freeware "JetPhoto" (actually it does much more than making screesavers):

http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/home

Just take a tour here to see what this amazing FREE APP can do for you without charging you a dime:

http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/?s=jpstudio_0

Live Demo:
http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/?s=demo

Full Tutorial:
http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/?s=product_studio

See also:
http://dottech.org/103187/windows-how-to-create-custom-screensavers-and-photoimage-slideshows-with-irfanview
http://www.instantstorm.com
http://www.gphotoshow.com/gpshow_free.htm
http://www.gphotoshow.com/cube-photo-show-free.htm (turns your pictures into 3D screensavers)

My 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 cent for screensavers!!

Giovanni  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+28)

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I've been playing with the animated wall paper maker given away a couple weeks ago (also made by DestopPaints), and it's rather fun... my kids love it... and so I was curious when this one said, "By ordering “DP Extension Pack”, you get a personal permanent key for today’s Giveaway of the Day program."

The special deal is a webpage made just for us with the program half off and the add-on an additional $8
(For a grand total of $23) - it's almost as much as buying the program for full price.

From this site:
For this occasion only, this add-on comes with a FREE full license for Animated Screensaver Maker.

From their site:
Special Offer for GOTD Users ... DP Extension Pack + lifetime license for Animated Screensaver Maker for half the price


*FREE does not equal *HALF PRICE WITH OTHER PURCHASE

It's a fun program, and when I seen the deal here, I was thinking I might buy something. What is going on?

Robert Reilly  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+24)

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A BIG thumbs up for Levitiquetus! Nicely put and I totally agree with you! Screensavers are not useless, they are great relaxers. I love to sit back and watch all the intricate goings on. Thank you GOTD and DesktopPaints!

Dianne  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+24)

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