Description:

This small application allows you to display a screen saver as a desktop picture.

Reviews:

CoolBackground was quoted in some computer magazines:

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Demo:

You can download a video showing CoolBackground 2.0 in action. (630 ko, mp4 format stuffit). Or you can see the video in live (860 ko, QuickTime format)

Required System:

CoolBackground runs only on OS X 10.2 or later with Quark Extreme activated (works better). It's CPU intensive; it is advised to use this application only with high-powered machines. ;-)

New:

• 2.5 ,version, 05/08/2005: 10.4 Tiger compatible, no longer 10.3 compliant. Know Bug: on some configurations animated desktop will stop on real screen saver launch. As CoolBackground is now open source feel free to help me to fix this.
• 2.4 ,version, 12/01/2004: sleep gestion. Use of the sleepwatcher deamon to handle sleep and wake up. Coolbackground is now open source. Feel free to contribute to CoolBackground.
• 2.3.2 version, 12/23/2003: japanese localisation. New localization system using patches to make new localized versions.
• 2.3.1 version, 12/09/2003: fixed a but which prevented Marine Aquarium to work with Coolbackground.
• 2.3 version, 10/22/2003: CoolBackground is now Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) compatible and G5 optimized. I hope the CD/DVD bug is now fixed.

Download:

You can download version 2.4.

You can also download the source code.

Old versions can be downloaded here.

Of course CoolBackground remain free but if you like it you can contribute it will always be welcome.