Scrollable Picture Screensaver?

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Scrollable Picture Screensaver?

Does anyone know of a "scrollable" pictures/photos screensaver. We love our new mac, but one thing we miss about windows was the ability to "scroll" through the pictures on our "my pictures" screensaver using the backward & forward arrow keys.

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jun 11, 2008 4:56 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 11, 2008 5:09 PM in response to scottsimeon

I guess I don't get it. If it's a "screensaver" (something that is active when the user is not using the Mac), why is the user hitting the arrow keys to change the picture. Why not just bring up a Finder window in +Cover Flow+ view and "scroll" through ANY folder with pictures.

OR bring up a Finder window in list view, select any picture in that folder, and hit the Space bar. This will bring up a +Quick View+ window. Then, using the Up and Down arrow keys will change the picture in the Quick View window.

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Jun 11, 2008 6:30 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

not the point... i'm not looking for a particular picture. i would simply use iphoto to do that.
what i mean is, if my photos screensaver is going through the pictures (in random order), and i see one that i want to go back to (e.g., one of my 5 year old when he was 6 months old), i could (on a windows computer) go back to the previous picture simply by pressing the back arrow. you can't do that with a mac. i guess it's one of those things that steve jobs & co. either didn't think of, or didn't think was important.
what i'm asking is, are there any 3rd party screensavers out there that do this?

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Jun 11, 2008 6:37 PM in response to scottsimeon

Since touching ANY key or the mouse would inactivate the screen saver (as it should since it's a +screen saver+ ), I don't think you will find one that works that way.

(But then again, on the old +After Dark+ screen savers from the '80s, there used to be a screen saver module that was a game, so who knows...)

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Sep 1, 2008 7:33 PM in response to scottsimeon

That is exactly what I miss from my PC to my Mac. I don't think that the use of one key to look at the last displayed picture would be too much to ask.

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