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YourScreen™ – It’s all Fun AND Games!

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

I posted on a sweet little personal desktop management application, YourScreen™, a while ago. They just released a new version of it – with a whole new games section. Yes, a GAMES section.

…OoOoOoh…

To this point, I’ve used the application to create custom screensavers (made up of my own personal photos that i change up all the time), rotate my wallpapers, seasonally change out my screensavers, etc. Now I’m going to be using it for something even MORE fun – GAMES!! :)

Oh yeah.

If you already have the YourScreen™ application installed, you can run a quick upgrade by clicking “Help” and then click “About”. There’s a button there that says “Update Check”. Click it and you’re golden. If you don’t yet have it – click here to go get it! You’re missing out.

OH… and Happy Gaming! :)

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My Screen Rules Because of YourScreen™!

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

You might already know – I’m a fan of pink.
Yeah, yeah… I’m osbsessed with it.
To the point where… if they made something like car tires in pink, I’d have them.

Anyway, I also love scrounging around the web and downloading pink-themed wallpapers. And, if necessary, modifying wallpapers I find online to BE pink. I started my “pink wallpaper” collection a few months ago. Well, the task of changing out my wallpaper every day, or every hour (because I like to have a fresh, fun look on my desktop every hour) got to be a huge drag. Then I remembered the sweet little application we have here at Freeze that could handle all of that for me automatically.

YourScreen™ was installed, set up, and running within minutes. I dropped about 5 of my favorite wallpapers into the rotation list area, selected to have my wallpapers swap out every hour, and viola! Every hour I had a fun new wallpaper gracing my desktop. Heck, if I wanted to – I could have a new wallpaper thrown up there every minute. I think right now I have it set to swap out every 30 minutes. That seems about right.

I also have a small (but sweet) collection of screensavers that I have gathered, and guess what? Yep. YourScreen™ manages those for me too. Any screensaver that is installed on your machine is automatically added to your collection within the YourScreen™ interface. You can then easily browse through all screensavers available on your system, click one, and immediately activate it. All the settings are available for tweaking right there, too.

You can actually throw up pictures of your kids, your dog, your family, etc. and have them rotate as a custom made screensaver, complete with transition options such as fade, the blinds effect, and a ton more. You can even play music. It’s brilliant.

Plus, YourScreen™ has a search tool built right into it so I can search for fabulous new pink wallpapers and screensavers right there.

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