Any Screensaver experts out there

[mcrossley]

Are the clouds in DTE 'live' or just a static overlay?

[serowe]

Not live in the true sense - you control how often you download the cloud overlay. As I said - it's basically an image which is used as a desktop background. I understand the distinction between this and a truely live background but, if you think about it, even a weather background I wouldn't want updated as an overall image more than once every 5 minutes or so.

Having said that - FreeWx has a full screen page that cycles through the various weather data in various pages - it is an applicaiton so would be quite easy to write and run if oyu wanted something to runwhen the computer isn;t in use. The reason I liked FreeWx's version was that it used LARGE letters to display the informaiton and was thus visible from many etres away from the screen.

[Gina]

If I want a series of photos or a video on the screen I just run a slideshow or video player full screen - job done Turn off the system screensaver or screen standby though or your display will disappear.

[Charlie]

Silly question - did you try a Google search? I tried "how to create a screensaver" and got a long list of hits including this product: http://iscreensaver.com/ There seems to be a free trial.

I'm betting there is an open source project if you poke a bit as well...

[steve]

Cumulus Realtime will go full screen any way, so I'm not sure what the point would be in having it as a screen saver? I may look at different ways of running it when I eventually get back to it, Silverlight is becoming very flexible.