My Living Desktop is an application that allows you to put animated wallpapers on your desktop in order to give an original look to your Mac.
My Living Desktop comes with beautiful built in videos featuring beautiful scenes, but you can easily add your own footage also.
It is recomended to shoot the scenes you want to include in My Living Desktop using a High Definition (HD) camera. This is very important if you intend to view your scene on larger screens. You can use lower quality Standard Definition (SD) footage, but the final scene will look pixellated or blurry.
There are 3 steps when importing your own footage into My Living Desktop. Each step attempts to maintain the highest video quality possible without overburdening your computers CPU resources or hard drive. There is a balance between video quality, file size and CPU load.
Here are some key features of "My Living Desktop":
Lights, Camera, Action:
· With its video importer, My Living Desktop lets you import your own movie scenes. That's right, you're very own creations center stage as your Mac's desktop and as your screen saver. How cool is that? Imagine your home movie segments, movies of your friends, or even a recent vacation right on your desktop. The possibilities are endless.
Software With Impeccable Manners:
· My Living Desktop automatically turns itself off or mutes its sound at appropriate times. If, for example, you decide to listen to music, My Living Desktop automatically disables and/or mutes itself when iTunes is launched. When you quit iTunes, My Living Desktop turns back on. You can easily designate applications for which My Living Desktop disables or mutes.
Many scenes to soothe your mind, body and soul:
· My Living Desktop comes complete with over 3 dozen stunning, high definition movie videos.
Serenity Now:
· With its Automatic Serenity Break feature, My Living Desktop helps you stay in tip top mental form.
Serene Green:
· My Living Desktop is one smart cookie with battery power. It knows how important battery power is to your laptop. So when you're in battery mode, My Living Desktop can automatically disable itself to conserve your laptop's precious juice.
You're the Critic:
· You can easily assign frequency ratings to your My Living Desktop videos. It's your Mac and your tastes. That's why you can easily assign ratings to your videos... from 1 to 5 stars. The higher a star rating, the more often it displays when you're using My Living Desktop's random desktop mode.
From Desktop to Screen Saver: My Living Desktop Does It All:
· My Living Desktop isn't only the perfect video desktop solution, it's also the consummate screen saver.
Saving the Cycles:
· My Living Desktop goes out of its way to ensure it helps you get the best performance from your Mac. You can set My Living Desktop to reduced CPU usage, preserving those valuable cycles for your applications.
Requirements:
· G5 or Intel processor with 1GB of RAM or more
· 1GB of available hard disk space
· A high speed internet connection is highly recommended
Limitations:
· 10 days trial period.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New scenes in the Scene Store
· Better hard drive performance
· Fixes issues with Mac OS X Lion
· No longer any need to install as the Administrator user
· Scene download bug fixed
· Menubar crash bug fixed
· Uninstaller and accidental removal of the default Scene Serene Saver movie fixes
· Recent red flash bug introduced by Nvidia detected and reported
· Rare registration bug fixed