Download Better Than Free Video Screen Saver

Released on = February 21, 2006, 7:22 am

Press Release Author = Camelot Marketing

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = TwoSailors.net offer a better than free video screen saver
download. Screensavers seamlessly loop and make waterfall or beach scenes appear to
continuously run without any kind of jerk.

Press Release Body = Now there is a whole different class of screensaver that uses
real video. Available from TwoSailers.net, the one common thread throughout their
entire library of video screensavers is that they all loop endlessly.

So what\'s he big deal? Well, looping is easy for artificially created animations but
incredibly difficult when looking at a video of something natural, say a waterfall
or a beach scene. Making something in nature appear to continuously run without any
kind of \"jerk\" as it begins the process over again is almost impossible. Yet the
folks at TwoSailors.net did it and according to the company, it only took them two
years to figure out how to do it.

Back in the \"old days\" when cathode ray tubes reigned supreme and flat screens were
either nonexistent or so expensive that their existence didn\'t really matter, the
screensaver was born. The screensaver back then actually did what its name said it
did, namely save screens. It saved them from the destruction that would occur when
any static image was displayed on the screen for too long a time. If that happened,
the electron beam that created the image would literally etch the delicate phosphor
coating on the inside of the screen\'s glass and leave a ghostly burned-in shadow
that would remain there forever, even with the power turned completely off.
Basically if that happened, your screen was toast. It may be interesting to note
that one of the most famous of screensavers depicted little flying toasters and
pieces of winged toast moving across the screen. Be that as it may, the screensaver
was born out of necessity.

All a screensaver did at first was to detect when your computer wasn\'t being used,
and then blank out whatever you were currently working on with a dark screen. The
problem there was that one was never sure if the computer was actually turned off or
just running the screensaver. Too many times the former was assumed and computers
everywhere were being left on all night which caused even more damage due to the
unintentional extended computer usage. To make sure that didn\'t happen, the next
generation of screensavers displayed some kind of animated graphic image. It had to
be animated otherwise the screensaver itself would cause burn-in which was
self-defeating to say the least.
For complete story please go
to:http://www.computeramerica.com/content/columns/craig/2006/2006-02-20.htm


Craig Crossman is a Knight-Ridder newspaper columnist writing about computers and
technology. He also hosts the nation\'s longest running nationally syndicated radio
talk show on computers and technology, Computer America, heard on both the Business
TalkRadio NetworkT and the Lifestyle TalkRadio NetworkT, weeknights at 10PM Eastern
time. In South Florida, you can hear a rebroadcast of a selected Computer America
show each Sunday evening at 8PM on WJNO 1290AM.


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