Drive yourself to distraction by turning your Desktop into a flurry of color or an active slideshow.
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Some hacks are just too cool to bother rationalizing. This is just such a hack.
Type the following into a Terminal [Hack #48] window:
- Sep 15, 2017 Let’s see how to become a Hollywood hacker in 30 seconds. How to install Hollywood hacking terminal in Linux. The tool is quite aptly called Hollywood. Basically, it runs in Byobu, a text based Window Manager and it creates a random number of random sized split windows and runs a noisy text app in each of them.
- Jul 04, 2019 The screensaver depicts a multi-colored 3D array of light trails, with each particle moving in a wave-like motion. Find My and more. The update will be available for all Mac users in the fall.
- Mar 11, 2017 On a Mac, any screen saver can be made to run as a wallpaper with just one line of code. First, you have to download and install the Google Featured Photos Screen Saver. Next, go to System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver and set the Google Featured Photos as the active screen saver. Now it’s time to run the magic code.
- Feb 04, 2017 Hey Guys this is Mac Guru and today I am showing you Aerial. Aerial is a set of aerial screensavers filmed for Apple TV and thanks to this, you are able to set them as screensavers for your mac.
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Now lean back, press the Return key, and prepare to be amazed. No, you're not imagining things; that is indeed your preferred screensaver running right smack dab on your Desktop, behind and between your running applications (see Figure 4-34).
Mac Hacker Screensavers
Figure 4-34. The screensaver running as desktop
Probably the most useful part of this hack is turning it off and returning your Desktop to its unchanging self. To do so, type Control-C in the same Terminal window from which you started the screensaver running.
While any of the screensavers will do, perhaps the grooviest is Flurry, shown in Figure 4-34. More serene, but no less impressive, is one of the slideshows: Forest, Cosmos, or Abstract. Of course, a homemade slideshow composed of snapshots in your Pictures folder will keep those near and dear to you even nearer.
Cool Hacker Screensavers
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Animated Hacker Screensaver
As you might expect, there are a number of freeware apps (http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_Filter=MacOSX&search=screensaver+desktop) available to turn the desktop screensaver on and off without needing a visit to the command line.