Francesco Mugnai

I’m 31 years old. I’m a designer. I’m a teacher. I’m an ACE Adobe. I’m italian. I’m sagittarius. I live in florence, Itay.

27 free eye-candy and hypnotic screensavers for mac and windows

You know that if you have an LCD you don’t need a screensaver and you can even reduce the lifetime of the display (according to wikipedia) but sometimes a nice and minimalist screensaver is difficult to refuse.

In any case below you have a collection of the best 27 free eye-candy screensaver you can use in your mac or pc.

ClockBlock (win, mac)

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PolarClock (win, mac, iphone)

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Arc (win, mac)

digg_screensaver

Fontpark 2.0 (win, mac)

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The Hal Project (win, mac)

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geektool

Mega Roundup of Geektool scripts + inspiration gallery.

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If you have a mac you have to try it.
Geektool is a (great) little app to show some informations directly on your desktop using UNIX code.

You don’t know Unix? No problem, after the jump you find the code you need to do what you want (how to display the external IP, Recent music Plays, the Weather, how to display comics and so on…) .

The only bad thing is that the last version of geektool is not officially available for Leopard (just for Panther or Tiger).
If you have Leopard, i know that for someone it works and for someone it doesnt. So, if you want, try at your own risk.

In case you can have a look at this nice tutorial for beginners.

Full list after the jump…

25 great free resources for making charts

Here you have a new roundup about a bunch of great tools for making charts and graphs.
You can choose between web generators, flash,  javascript libraries, Silverlight or PHP classes.

At the end of the post you find also 3 tutorials to make pure css bar graphs and another one for Adobe Illustrator.

JS Charts (JavaScript based chart generator)

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Protovis (visualization toolkit for JavaScript)

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Visifire (open source data visualization components powered by Silverlight & WPF)

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pChart (PHP class oriented framework)

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Ejschart (Javascript)

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XML/SWF Charts

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Some statistics about this blog. Safari is growing fast….

If you are interested, here you have some statistics about this site.
Few charts about browsers and operating systems.

In the last year, about half of you who read this blog, use Firefox. A good percentage also use IE.
But in the last two months (after the release of the new versions of Safari and Chrome) something has changed.
Firefox is always the king but Safari is growing really fast and Chrome is finally over the 3%.

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more after the jump…

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