Bike Art Screensaver Free at Cycle Chic
by Christine Lepisto, Berlin on 12. 9.07
We love Copenhagen Cycle Chic for showing cyclists in the European style: all dressed up with everywhere to go. Now we love them even more for creating and sharing this beautiful bike art collage to enjoy everyday as a screen saver. My favorite is the Cycles Perfecta by the Czech Art Noveau artist Alphons Mucha. Tell us which is your favorite in the comments.
Does anyone have the download link for the screensaver?
===auth. note===
With apologies, Josef, the link above is fixed now. Thanks for letting us know.
Screen saver? How is that treehugger?
Screen savers use unnecessary energy, especially with LCD screens, and there is no chance of burning out.
They are an obsolete relic of the CRT, that sucks up energy when a monitor should be shut off.
Free? Hardly. That image might cost you $25 to $75 a year. Using one of those cool images for a desktop background is one thing, enabling a screen saver is another.
Please don’t use a screen saver, they are unnecessary and use energy. Let your screen “sleep” instead. My laptop uses more energy (53 watts) running a screen saver than doing any normal task. If everybody let their screens sleep instead, the savings would be staggering, see:
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=pm_mmd.pr_pm_mmd
Screen savers suck. Energy.
It can be a desktop image.
I was surprised at some of the details:
Bib the Michelin Man balloons into king kong ?
Have circuses (curci?) and/or street performers been a major way to introduce audiences to novel personal technologies?
Fly down the yellow brick road to knowledge, liberty, and ecstasy?
Flying heads? (heads will roll?)
I guess dogs have chased bicyclists as long as there have been bicyclists.
OK, it would appear that both this author and the cycle chic folks have lazy English, or perhaps we are so far past the olden days when bouncing images used to prevent phosphor shadows that we have forgotten this archaic practice.
These commenters are exactly correct: use this lovely image as a screen background so it is the first thing you see when you wake your computer up, but put use your power management to put your computer to sleep or turn it off if you take a phone call or step away for a cup of coffee.