http://www.susannaspeier.com/photography/why-everyone-hates-screensavers-and-why-cubicle-flood-is-a-screensaver-youll-actually-like/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:40:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.susannaspeier.com/photography/why-everyone-hates-screensavers-and-why-cubicle-flood-is-a-screensaver-youll-actually-like/#comment-1084 michelle Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:25:29 +0000 http://www.susannaspeier.com/?p=346#comment-1084 mostly they've gotten less popular because we don't need screensavers anymore–modern monitors aren't susceptible to "burn-in," and they actually use more energy than just the sleep screen (in addition to the spyware threat perhaps). personally i didn't have one for years until I found this brilliantly designed word clock: http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/ which is just so cool to watch that I had to have it, but it's more decorative than anything. mostly they’ve gotten less popular because we don’t need screensavers anymore–modern monitors aren’t susceptible to “burn-in,” and they actually use more energy than just the sleep screen (in addition to the spyware threat perhaps). personally i didn’t have one for years until I found this brilliantly designed word clock:
http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/
which is just so cool to watch that I had to have it, but it’s more decorative than anything.

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