The Google Screensaver is probably the best piece of software in the entire Google Pack. The screensaver displays a slideshow of your digital pictures full screen or as a collage. The collage effect gives an impression as if someone is dumping Polaroid images on your desktop over time. Google screensaver works even on dual monitor screens.
Though the screensaver installer is only a few kilobytes, you need to download the entire Google updater application from pack.google.com to install the Google Screensaver.If that is too much work for you, here is a quick tip to download a standalong google screensaver and as a bonus, this modified screensaver doesn't display the Google logo on the top right corner.Download this standalone Google Screensaver scr here and save the file to your Windows folder (generally, C:\Windows in XP and C:\WinNT in Windows 2000).
The Google screensaver is now installed on your computer. To configure your screensaver and set it as the default screensaver on your system, follow these steps:
1. Right-click on your desktop and select "Properties" from the menu that appears
2. Select the "Screen Saver" tab from the "Display Properties" dialog
3. From the "Screen saver" drop-down, select "Google Pack Screensaver" then click the "Settings" button
4. From the settings window, you can select the transition, timing, and selection of photos in your screensaver.
Picasa screensaver also lets you display a slideshow of your photos when your computer is idle but that requires you to download the ~4MB picasa installer from Google.
Google Photos Screensaver - that's the name of a new screensaver included with the Google Pack. Google Photos Screensaver replaces the older Google Screensaver which was more like an automatic running slideshow of your digital photos on the hard-drive.
The new Google Photos Screensaver is on the lines of a PhotoCasting software. It can download images from RSS photostreams and show them in a slideshow.
Google Photos Screensaver can fetch live photos from Flickr, Picasa, or any website that provides an RSS stream. You can also use it to view images from the latest events using the image stream of Yahoo! News. [By Google Blog]
Google Photos Screensaver version 2.0 is a 4.4 MB download available via Google Pack which is another 750kb.
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