Top10 ScreenSaver

1. Jack O'Lantern

In this screen saver, you can turn gloomy pumpkin lantern into your mac screen saver. Interestingly here you can carve your PNG transparent and make your lantern to be displayed on your screen saver.

You can also find Apple logo as one of the default carving templates provided.

2. Screensaver X-Galaxy

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Screen saver built with a Leopard's nebula concept.

3. Plasma Tunnel

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By watching this screen saver, you will have a feeling of being taken into the depth of the water tunnel.
You can customize the color of the tunnel's wall also.

3. Flux

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Mac OS X Screen Saver that uses the movement of spheres to create a stunning, colorful composition.

5. Solar Winds

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Flurry-like Mac OS X screen saver.

6. Fireflies

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The most colorful Mac screen saver that I've ever seen for now.
More colorful than Flurry screen saver.

7. The Digg Labs

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The Arc of Digg as your Mac screen saver.
Everyone should have known about this already.

8. Flickr Shuffle Screen Saver

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This screen saver can load your favorite photos from Flickr,
shuffle them, add customizable transition effects and display them as your screen saver.
It's worth a try. Really.

9. Time Machine Screen Saver

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This Time Machine screen saver combines the Time Machine space time warp and your trustworthy RSS reader, making it so much of convenience (and awesomeness) for reading your RSS while also running your screen saver.

10. MovingPhotos 3D Screen Saver

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An absolutely beautiful screen saver.
This screen saver gives you the freedom on choosing your pictures folder and then works on it to create animation of photos flying around, constructing a virtual building.
This is a must have screen saver.

Top10 Tips

1. Diagnose MobileMe Sync Glitches:

If MobileMe syncing never seems to work right (and it never has for me) you can check what went wrong by holding the Option key and clicking on the Sync icon in the menu bar.
A menu will pop down showing what synced and what didn’t.
There’s also a link to Sync Diagnostics and you can reset sync system without having to open System Preferences.

2. Sync Google and Yahoo Calendars:

You can easily import your Google and Yahoo calendars into iCal.

In iCal, go to the iCal menu and hit Preferences.
Select the Accounts tab hit the Plus sign under the Accounts box.
The dialog box that pops up will allow you to log into your Google or Yahoo accounts by entering your email addresses and passwords.

3. Auto Text Correction:

If you always make habitual typing mistakes like “don;t” instead of “don’t,”
go to System Preferences>Language & Text.
Under the Text tab you’ll find a list of text substitutions.
Hit the + sign at the bottom, add your most annoying mistakes, and Snow Leopard will automatically correct them.
Only works in certain apps like Mail, iChat and TextEdit.
Unfortunately it corrects fun mistakes like “teh” for “the.”

You can also add shortcuts like “tyl” which will type out
“Thank you for your letter but this isn’t my department.
I refer you to my esteemed colleague, cc’ed here,” and so on.

It will also fix curly quotes, which don’t play nice when cutting/pasting text into a webpage.

4. Shrink App Windows Behind the App’s Dock Icon:

For some reason, it irritated me when a minimized window shrunk to the Dock next to the Trash can.

Shrink a lot of windows and they would all line up on the right-hand side of the Dock, next to the Trash.

In Snow Leopard, they can now be shrunk behind the application’s icon in the Dock, where they belong.

Go to System Preferences>Dock and check “Minimize windows into application icon.”

5. Auto Time Zone:

If you travel a lot, your Mac can now detect what time zone you’re in and automatically reset the time in the menu bar.

Go to System Preferences>Date &
Time and select the Time Zone tab.
Hit the “Set time zone automatically using current location” box.

6. Force Quit With Option-Click in the Dock:

If you have trouble remembering the Force Quit key combination (Option-Command-Esc) or hate hunting down the Force Quit dialog under the Apple menu,
here’s a Snow Leopard shortcut.

Hold down the Option key while clicking an app’s icon in the Dock.
Up will pop a contextual menu with Force Quit.
It also presents a Hide Others option, which I use a lot.

Quick and easy.

7. Change Audio Input and Output:

Instead of firing up System Preferences to switch from speakers to headphones,
hold down the Option key and click the volume control icon in the menu bar.
A menu will pop down showing the available inputs and outputs.

8. Enlarge Your Icons:

Ever want to look through a big folder of pictures to find the one you want but find Quick Look cumbersome?
In Snow Leopard just choose Icon view and hit the slider at bottom right to enlarge the icons to their full 512×512 glory.
Now you can see clearly what each file contains.
Icons also give a live preview of the file – music, movies and multi-page PDFs.

9. Use Stacks as a Quick Launcher:

To quickly launch an app, put your Applications folder in the Dock.
When you click on it, it’ll pop up as a stack.
Start typing the first few letters of the app you want – say “iCh” – and hit the Return button when the icon is highlighted.
This works pretty well as a fast app launcher after you’ve tried it a few times and got used to it.

10. Easy Convert Movie for iPhones and iPods:

Movies downloaded from the Internet are always a pain to get on your iPod or iPhone.
Not in Snow Leopard.

In QuickTime X, go to the Share Menu and Select iTunes.

In the dialog box, just choose the device you want – iPod, AppleTV or Computer.
Be sure to download and install Perian for maximum file compatibility.

Top10 Widgets

1. Earth

Get the Earth Widget with live updated satellite images!

2. Rollercoaster

Wanna have a nonstop rollercoaster ride? Here we go.

3. FishTank

Get a real FishTank in to your Dashboard. You can switch on and off the Bubble Sounds at anytime - Enjoy !

4. Apps on Mac

Essential software to make your Mac more awesome… enjoy!

5. NASA TV

Watch live stream NASA TV:
- get Launch and Landing Coverage
- get complete LIVE Shuttle Coverage
- get Current Missions Reports

What’s New in this Version
- Public, Education and Media Channels added

6. Dashboard on Fire

Get your Dashboard fullscreen on Fire!
- Flip to the back and switch on or off the crackling sound effect when ever you like !

7. YouTube

Watch and Search Featured, Most Discussed, Most Recent, Most Viewed, Top Favorites and Top Rated Videos in your Dashboard.

8. Asteroid

Play Asteriods with this amazing Asteriod widget !
The Asteroid OSX Dashboard Widget is based on Gary C. Martin AsteroidsQC V0.9 Quartz Composer development.
Many Thanks to him indeed !

9. BigBen

Get the most famous clock in to your Dashboard.

10. Have a Studio!

Use your Keyboard to play the Piano, click on the Samples for some Beats and enjoy your little studio in your Dashboard! Credits to ButtonBeats.com for the Piano Synthesizer!

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1. Earth

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2. Rollercoaster

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3. FishTank

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4. Apps on Mac

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5. NASA TV

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6. Dashboard on Fire

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7. YouTube

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8. Asteroid

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9. BigBen

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10. Have a Studio!

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