Do They Offer this for Mac?

Amie

Amie

Mac Convert for Life
Not sure why "Macworld" magazine even published this site as one of their favorite sites for desktop images (it's for Windows), but I really like this animated desktop. Does anyone know if they offer this (or one similar) for Mac? Or, if you know of ANY free animated desktop images for Mac, I would be grateful if you would post the link(s).

Thanks so much! :)

Oh, almost forgot! Here's the original link I was talking about:

http://register.freeze.com/download/index.aspx?sx=b7158553-c906-4e9c-b47e-b7cf469e0db5

P.S. Don't worry, when you click the link it will not download anything to your computer. It's just a preview so that you can see what I'm talking about.
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm looking for freeware (like the one in the link I posted), not shareware. Thanks!
 
Backlight 2 is a cool freeware app that lets you run ANY standard OS X screensaver as a desktop background.

There are also some apps that will let you play QuickTime movies as desktop backgrounds, but I've never used them much. That's just too CPU-heavy for a desktop background, IMO, so I stick with either static images or relatively simple screensavers (Apple's Pictures screensaver works very nicely).
 
you can use the 'cycle desktop pictures' setting to feign animation. put say, 4 images of an animation in there and set it to update every 5 seconds.
 
Amie said:
Not sure why "Macworld" magazine even published this site as one of their favorite sites for desktop images (it's for Windows)...
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Probably because their "wallpaper" section contains JPEG files that work beautifully as Mac desktop pictures - and because they liked some of them. What you call an "animated desktop" wasn't what they selected the site for, it's actually a screensaver developed for Windows. Most such sites cater primarily for Windows users (after all, those *do* make up over 80% of all computer users, we're told...), but the actual desktop pictures quite surely work on Macs and linux machines as well, since they're simply JPEG files.
 
well, it's actually more, i guess. but 80% is already enough to make my point. ;)
 
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