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Word Clock Screensaver: Better Than Fliqlo?

This might be the one to rival the Unplggd-favorite Fliqlo Screensaver.

This free Word Clock screen saver by Simon Heys is a typographic timepiece. It displays every single word necessary to express any second of time in the day, then appropriately highlights the words to display the current day and time. It comes in 31 languages and in block or rotary style text. See a time-lapse video under the jump...

The Word Clock is available for Mac OS X, Windows and iPhone. The screen saver is highly customizable, with typographic controls that allow you to change the typeface, leading, kerning and alignment on all the text. Position and resize the display to your tastes. Definitely an elegant, useful and cheap choice for all you typeface-freak graphic designers out there.

More information and downloads here for Word Clock and Rotary Word Clock.

Unplggd's Other Favorite Screen Savers::

Fliqlo Clock

Skyrocket Fireworks

Comments (7)

A white screensaver? if the colors flip black and white then this would be a screensaver.

posted by funstraw on August 13th 2008 at 8:06am
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Sweet I'm going to have to give this a try!

posted by ekoshyun on August 13th 2008 at 8:13am
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It appears that you can change the colors

posted by funstraw on August 13th 2008 at 9:28am
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I have been using this for a while and it is BY FAR my favorite saver. Sleek, clever, minimal, sexy - it should come standard with every mac sold in my opinion.

posted by Barrett on August 13th 2008 at 9:29am
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FligLo has/had a virus...so ANY screensaver is better lol...

posted by jamilkb on August 13th 2008 at 10:21am
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lcd screens don't burn in anymore so "screensaver" is sort of a misnomer anyway. I have all my computers set to turn off after 5-10 minutes rather than using a screen saver. That said there are some really nice screen savers out there.

posted by Antialias on August 13th 2008 at 11:41am
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Why on earth would you do this? Just set your computer to turn the screen OFF after 3-5 minutes without any use. Even with LCD's (especially the larger screens), you can save an incredible amount of power that way.

posted by sunspot42 on August 13th 2008 at 8:30pm
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