Okay, so it's over a year away, but have you thought about what wallpaper you'll be putting on your iPhone? (Funny how it seemed a poxy idea on the Zune, but not the iPhone)

Remember, 320x480, 160dpi.

I'll start it off with my preferred image:

Minimal would work.....

Probably use this.

Here's mine.

Hehehehe...

Phahah, wouldn't that piss you of off after a while?

What about a live motion screen saver ? For either iPhone - or iPod Video 5G ?

Yeah, like Backlight for the iPhone (after all, it is OSX, isn't it?

I find a 'backsaver' such as "GLMatrix" running at 30% Opacity, on top of a Matrix background creates a look that is both creepy and amazing.

Perhaps I should take a screen-movie thing to elaborate on that...

Yes, I think you should. Also how do you adjust it to be 30%?

Backlight 2.0, available at http://freshlysqueezedsoftware.com/products/freeware/ will play your screensavers as your desktop background at any opacity (from 1 to 100%).

With Backlight running the "GLMatrix" screensaver (freeware, part of the 25.3MB dmg from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/) at the said opacity (30%) [changeable in the preferences accessible from a drop down menu from its icon on the menu bar] and above certain desktop backgrounds (such as "Mactrix", available at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2313754/), the colours and brightnesses match almost perfectly and the resulting effect is as if your entire desktop background was experiencing the Matrix's "Digital Rain" effect.

I cannot post the actual screensaver I have mentioned because it is 400KB as a zip file and thus exceeds the forum size limits.

Anyway, I hope this explains things a little.

Also, I hope that the iPhone will support such things as this.

So does the Backlight app open as an application or does it build into sys. preferences?

Thanks for the quick reply!

But Pirate - BackLight is for your computer screen, is it not ?

You were in the middle of discussing screen effects for the iPhone no ?

(and at that - for Jaguar and Panther only)

cw

Backlight runs on OSX 10.2 and more. It currently runs fine (as an application that lives in the menu bar) on my Intel iMac (early 2006). Your mention of a "live motion screen saver" got me thinking that if programs like Backlight run on the full OSX, then perhaps they can run on the iPhone.

After all, what programs like backlight do is execute the following terminal command which is supported in (so far) ALL forms of OSX after Jaguar:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

Don't include the break in the line (all on one line).

Whichever screensaver you've chosen in System Preferences now appears on the desktop, under your windows and icons. To stop, hit Control-C (in the Terminal window) to terminate the process.

I have found widgets that execute the same command... it shouldn't be long before a widget is created for the iPhone that can do the same thing.

Anyway, I like this simple background to show to friends:

Actually, now that I come to think of it [and I do], one could put a screen saver onto an iPod Video 5G, but then again - I'm not sure this would work though, as I haven't got an iPod 5G to test it on, and then again, it may only work if the iPod Video 5G were connected to one's Mac whilst charging in the Dock - however - I digress...

1. First, make sure your iPod has hard disk mode enabled.

2. Create a folder on your iPod 5G and name it: Demo Mode

3. In iTunes, find a video you really like, make a copy of it - and rename it to: Demo

So.... if you have it plugged into your Mac - in the Dock, leave everything alone - (like don't play anything in iTunes either) and after a few minutes, that video you renamed as: Demo should start playing on your iPod 5G screen on a permanent loop.

Hell - you could even create your own custom animation in something like Adobe After Effects and then save it as an MP4 to iPod settings, and add it to your iTunes video list.

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