Remember the days of the flying toaster screen saver? "Flying Toasters" was a must have item for any computer owner in the late 80's and early 90's.

A company called Berkeley Systems released a screen saver application called After Dark in 1989. The Flying Toasters were just one of the many different screen saver modules included with After Dark, but they were by far the most popular.



Unfortunately for us Toaster fans, the owners of Berkeley Systems, Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, sold their company to Sierra On-Line in 1997. (A year later, they founded MoveOn.org). Since then, the world has been toasterless... until now!

Thanks to the gang at UneasySilence.com, you can download a FREE version of the retrotastic Flying Toasters screen saver for Mac or PC here.

How To Install:

Windows: Drag the .scr file into your Windows directory, right click on it and select install. It should now appear in your screensaver list.

Drag the .saver file into ~/Library/Screen Savers/ (~ is your home directory)

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Have you walked past an Apple Store yet this month? If so, you might have noticed a 3D snowflake screen saver running in the display windows. The screen saver is called Snowfall and it was designed by Russell Warenboldt using the OS X Quartz Composer.

Snowfall is free, but it requires Macintosh OS X Tiger. To install Snowfall, just copy it into your Screen Savers folder ~/Library/Screen Savers/. Then open the System Preferences panel to modify the options. You can pick a solid background color and turn on the stripes to make your screen look like wrapping paper. Or pick one of your favorite photos and adjust the speed and amount of snow displayed on your screen. Here's a screenshot of Snowfall with a picture of my dog in the background.


Snowfall is a beautiful screen saver. These pictures really don't do it justice. You'll just have to install Snowfall and see it for yourself.

You can download Snowfall here (Mac PPC, Mac Intel). Don't like Snowfall? Here's another winter screen saver called SnowSaver (Mac PPC). Both Snowfall and SnowSaver are Macintosh only. PC users should check out a screen saver called Let It Snow (PC).

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