To display a custom message as 3D text, select Custom Text and then type your message.ģ. To display the current time as 3D text, select Time. You can display the current time or a custom message as 3D text. This displays the 3D Text Settings dialog box shown in Figure 3-13.Ģ. In the Screen Saver Settings dialog box, select 3D Text as the screensaver and then click Settings. To customize the 3D Text screensaver, follow these steps:ġ. With these screensavers (and likely any custom screensavers you install), clicking Settings displays a dialog box that allows you to customize the screensaver. Better than the Windows Live Photo Gallery screensaver, imho.Two of the standard screensavers deserve additional discussions: 3D Text and Photos. Google Photos Screensaver is still fantastic. Since they’ve started focusing more on their profitable products (right move, imho), it’s unlikely that we’ll see bugs like this get fixed. Sadly, Google has known about this bug for almost 3 year now and it’s still not fixed. Not a big deal for me since I’m used to using the “Window+L” keys to lock my machine. This sucks if you like to have your machine auto-locked when the screensaver kicks in.
The solution is to uncheck that the “On resume…” box. Why? Because of the “On resume, display logon screen” option: It will cause screen flickering and not show any of the images you asked for! Unfortunately, the Google Photos screensaver has an annoying issue if you run it on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
Oh and it’s free! Get the screensaver by installing Picasa, Google’s awesome photo manager: (The Google Photos screensaver used to be part of the now defunct “Google Pack”.) As you can see from the settings image above, it can load images from the web, rss, or your local machine. I really like the Google Photos Screensaver because of it’s excellent visual effects options like the “ Ken Burns effect” aka “ Pan and Zoom“:Īnd it works great on dual monitors too by showing different pictures on both.
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