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Screen Saver:

 

The Screen Saver below is PC compatible only.

Screengrab for one of screen saver's 20 screens

Run the installer from here.
(Now check your Display Control Panel)

A shareware Mac Screen Saver (called Pixel Gallery) can be downloaded from: www.ibrium.se/macdim

Use the instructions below to help you configure the Mac screen saver to display MrSID images:

It is possible to create a slide-show of your favourite SID images and display them when your computer is idle using a screen-saver such as MacDim. This is what you have to do:

  • Download MacDim if you have not already done so.
  • Download the module. This is a US$5 shareware MacDim module that displays a slide-show.
  • If your browser did not automatically unpack the downloads, follow the instructions on the download page.
  • Install MacDim by dropping it (not the whole MacDim folder) onto the system folder icon. The Finder will put it in the right folder (Control Panels).
  • Restart your Macintosh. After it is restarted, you will need to configure it.
  • The MacDim Modules folder can be put anywhere on your hard disk. You should copy the PixelGallery folder into the MacDim Modules folder.
  • Open the MacDim control panel.

    Click on the program launching settings icon (2nd icon down), then click on the document icon to choose a module to run. This brings up the standard file dialogue; navigate to the MacDim modules folder, and select the PixelGallery icon from within the PixelGallery folder.
  • Now create a folder (anywhere on your hard disk) and put all the pictures that you want to be displayed by MacDim/PixelGallery into it. PixelGallery can display PICT, JPEG and TIFF files. To incorporate SID images into the slideshow, you first have to convert them to TIFFs.
    To do this, double-click on the SID files of your choice, then choose Save as TIFF... from the File menu. Navigate to the slide-show folder that you created previously.
  • The final step is to tell PixelGallery where to find the folder that contains the pictures you want to be displayed. To do this, open the MacDim control panel, select PixelGallery in the list of installed modules, then click on the Preferences icon (3rd one down, 2nd column).

    The PixelGallery preferences dialogue is displayed. Click on the folder icon in the bottom left, nagivate to the slide-show folder and choose a picture file (any one will do). Click on return, then close all the windows.

The next time your Macintosh is idle for the period specified in the MacDim control panel, the slide show will run and your pictures will be displayed.

Happy viewing!