If you think about it is a strange thing, screensavers, born to be protective shields of expensive computer monitors, today, with the evolution of screens, they are useful as a brick of the Berlin wall. But just like the value of that old brick, the screensaver has managed to retain its charm. If you search for screensavers on Google you get millions of results but 90% of these lead to, sometimes to terrible viruses, other times to paid programs, even quite expensive, which can reach up to 20 or 30 Dollars! This is because they are beautiful, everyone likes them and, for pure aesthetic taste, they are installed on all computers in the world.
Precisely because of this difficulty in finding beautiful and free ones, we see, once again, some of the best animated screensavers, this time looking for the most useful ones, which show the weather situation, the weather, the cities of the world, photos and images, watches .
1) On how to create a screensaver with photos, images and animated effects I had already written an article that included several solutions including the excellent Google Photos Screensaver which is located within the Picasa program. This screensaver not only allows you to run photos that are on your computer but also those of any image website, using the RSS photo feed.
If you like high-resolution quality images, the choice of images taken by Flickr, brought to the screen by the Loopy screensaver which shows the most recent uploaded on the most important photography social network, can become excellent.
2) Among the most useful screensavers in the world we cannot forget , an animated 3D screensaver very nice to see, which, if used by a computer connected to the internet, allows you to participate in the research of Stanford University, for Cancer treatment by giving a small part of the power of your computer. This type of donation is quite common especially for scientific projects that need a lot of resources to work.
In another article, there are other science projects to support by donating cpu via the screensaver.
3) For your own use you can use a clock screensaver .
Among all those that exist I particularly liked World Clock which shows a clock with hands where every hour, minute and second is written in letters.
4) Analogy is also exceptional, similar to World Clock but more clear and understandable because it is made in numbers.
5) The Polar Clock is also beautiful, showing a round clock where the progression of seconds, minutes, hours, days and months is shown graphically in a colorful way.
6) Fliqlo, on the other hand, is a traditional watch, aesthetically beautiful to look at, with large numbers showing only hours and minutes.
7) Dropclock instead is a digital clock with numbers that fall into the water, very nice to see and to use as a screensaver.
If you want something more besides the watch, we have two very useful and beautiful choices to look at.
8) City of the world is a beautiful screensaver that shows the rotation of the Earth in 3D, as if it were taken from the satellite, with sun lighting that varies according to the time of day (depending on the time detected on the computer) and that, turning, highlights all the cities of the world, capital and otherwise, with an indication of the number of inhabitants and the current time . One can remain hypnotized in following the movement of the Earth and reading the names and information for each city.
9) InRumor is more than a watch, it is a real agenda with a weather station to keep on your computer as a screensaver. The screen is divided into 4 parts, one with the clock, one with the calendar, one with the measured temperature and the forecast of the time (forecast) and a fourth with the scrolling of news from the InRumor.com website. To select the temperature of your city you must put the system Italy and choose the city with the English name (such as Rome, Milan, Naples and so on).
10) YoWindow with the weather forecast on animated background is a wonderful screensaver that shows a window on a well-designed countryside landscape, where the sun follows the real external situation .
Here too the city where you are located is selected and the landscape changes color and light according to the movement of the sun.
Depending on the real time then the weather situation changes and, for example, if it rains, it also rains on the screensaver.
The background image can also be changed by downloading a different landscape.
Obviously there is also the forecast of the weather .
YoWindow can also be tried online without downloading the screensaver.
11) For lovers of space effects, Soho Screensaver shows the graphics of what happens on the Sun with images that change almost in real time distributed by the solar observatory.
12) Acquarium Clock instead is a clock with hands placed inside an aquarium with fish.
13) Finally, they are nice but, as I saw them, impractical, the screensavers with the News, to see, in real time, what is happening in the world . In reality they would also be useful and nice to see only that, being American, they must then be configured to read the feeds of Navigaweb.net, blogs and online newspapers.
Among them are MappedUP which shows the news on the world map by illuminating the geographical point from which they come.
RSSMore can read any rss feed to show chronological news from favorite websites.
For those who love to read the news on Twitter there is Twingly, a 3D screensaver on which to read Tweets from all over the world, in realtime.
14) Hypnotic screensavers are of no use but still look good.
15) Free animated screensavers with 3D aquariums, Matrix and custom backgrounds are not easy to find for free but, on another page, there is something to download.
The list goes on with the best free and 3D screensavers for Windows PCs
