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Giant Flip Clock Desktop: Fliqlo Screensaver on Speed

You might have seen the Fliqlo Screen Saver in our 10 Best Looking (Free!) Screen Savers roundup. You might even have it already downloaded and flipping for you while you're away from your desk (or it's miniature iPhone version, like your Unplggd editors do). But on Flickr, we found this desktop customization that brings flip clocks to your regular desktop, along with enough widgets and whatchamacallits to keep you busy all afternoon...

Projectvirus creates a smart, dynamic desktop HUD (head-up display) that prominently displays a desktop-sized flip clock front and center, an aesthetic favorite of our readers.

That big old clock is pretty cool by itself, but projectvirus went one step further by embedding small pieces of information along the edges of the clock, including the date, weather conditions, system monitor, and music playback info. The whole setup is accomplished using the following free, popular desktop customization tools:

Snackr for the scrolling RSS feed
Rainmeter for moxaweather, HUD vision horizonal calendar and enigma system stats
CD Art Display to display music information from iTunes
ObjectDock for a windows dock

Comments (1)

Hmmm... something about this rubs me the wrong way. As a user, and lover of the fliqlo screensaver (replacing one of my dig labs' savers), I enjoy the aesthetic or the clock, but it has a time and place (pun intended) And I don't think a huge one smack in the middle of you screen as you're using is not the place. It has this sort of "Don't you have somewhere to be or something else you should be doing!?" feel to it.

Dig the news feed, weather and minimalist media player, however I think the clock is a bit much.

posted by urbanminstrel on December 1st 2008 at 1:30am
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