If you'd like to travel the World but don't have the time, or indeed the money, to do so, then perhaps the National Geographic: World Journey Screensaver can help.

National Geographic: World Journey Screensaver brings the World to your desktop, displaying a number of high quality images of scenes from around the globe. Among the gorgeous vistas on show are the Taj Mahal, the Sydney Opera House and the Sahara desert.

The National Geographic: World Journey Screensaver manages to cover a really diverse range of places through its photos. Unfortunately though the photos are all branded with the National Geographic logo.

Nevertheless, National Geographic: World Journey Screensaver is an essential addition to your sceensaver collection if you're a travel fan.

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If you like art in general and impressionism in particular you can't miss the Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver.

Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver includes more than a hundred paintings created by the famous French painter. The selected works belong to his several different periods, showing his artistic growth and his transition between impressionism and cubism.

Some of the paintings included in Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver are A Modern Olympia, Pyramid of Skulls, The Large Bathe, Card players, House and Farm at Jas de Bouffan, The Blue Vase and others. It's quite a good selection, though the screensaver doesn't allow you to remove transition effects.

Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver features more than a hundred paintings by Cezanne which you can enjoy on your PC when idle.

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If you haven't been introduced to the official mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, here's your chance.

If you didn't know, the Chinese have decided to go for several mascots instead of one known as "Fuya". Each of the 5 mascots (to symbolize the 5 Olympic rings) mascot is pictured in a different pose, outfit and colour. Fuwa also apparently embody the natural characteristics of four of China's most popular animals - the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow - and the Olympic Flame. The macots are Beibei (gentle and pure), Jingjing (makes children smile), Huanhuan (symbolising fire and the passion of sport), Yingying (swift as an antelope symbolizing China's landscape) and Nini (joyful and innocent as a swallow).

In this Beijing Olympics themed screensaver however, the mascots are not featured for some reason. Basically, you've got a green landscape that's constantly rolling along with the time and a countdown to the Olympics in the top left hand corner. It seems to be depicting some kind of green paradise although how the Olympics is contributing to this I'm not sure. The fact that all the text is in Chinese is a bit annoying (come on organisers - I thought this was supposed to be the most international sporting event in the world!). The installation process however is remarkably fast - it takes literally 1 second to make it available in your screensaver selection box in the control panel.

Get into the Olympic mood and celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympics in green style with this stylish screensaver.

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If you haven't been introduced to the official mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, here's your chance.

Unusually, the Chinese have decided to go for several mascots instead of one known as "Fuya". Each of the 5 mascots (to symbolize the 5 Olympic rings) mascot is pictured in a different pose, outfit and colour. Fuwa also apparently embody the natural characteristics of four of China's most popular animals - the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow - and the Olympic Flame. The macots are Beibei (gentle and pure), Jingjing (makes children smile), Huanhuan (symbolising fire and the passion of sport), Yingying (swift as an antelope symbolizing China's landscape) and Nini (joyful and innocent as a swallow).

In this Beijing Olympics mascot themed screensaver you've got Jingjing who's supposed to be the cuddly fun one of them all. The lotus designs in Jingjing's headdress, which are inspired by the porcelain paintings of the Song Dynasty (A.D.960-1234), symbolize the lush forest and the harmonious relationship between man and nature. Jingjing was chosen to represent our desire to protect nature's gifts -- and to preserve the beauty of nature for all generations.

Get into the Olympic mood as these fun mascots jump out and grab you in celebrating the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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If you haven't been introduced to the official mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, here's your chance.

Unusually, the Chinese have decided to go for several mascots instead of one known as "Fuya". Each of the 5 mascots (to symbolize the 5 Olympic rings) mascot is pictured in a different pose, outfit and colour. Fuwa also apparently embody the natural characteristics of four of China's most popular animals - the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow - and the Olympic Flame. The macots are Beibei (gentle and pure), Jingjing (makes children smile), Huanhuan (symbolising fire and the passion of sport), Yingying (swift as an antelope symbolizing China's landscape) and Nini (joyful and innocent as a swallow).

In this Beijing Olympics mascot themed screensaver you've got a grey background which cycles through a silhouette of various sports while in the foreground, the colourful mascots also appear at various intervals in different poses. There's also a countdown in the top right although it's not clear what for because all the text is in Chinese (come on organisers - I thought this was supposed to be the most international sporting event in the world!). It's likely that it's a countdown until the start of the Olympics thought. The installation process is also only in Chinese although it's quite obvious how to install it.

Get into the Olympic mood as these fun mascots jump out and grab you in celebrating the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Vincent Van Gogh Painting Screensaver displays 118 oil paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh is deemed by society to be one of our greatest and most successful artists.

All of the oil paintings in the screensaver are taken from the real masterpieces rather than from art reproductions. PaintingAll Art Gallery Van Gogh Art Screensaver will remind you about the famous oil paintings of Van Gogh like the Starry Night, The Sunflowers and Irises. Just put it on your screen and get the power of art from the picturesque masterpieces!

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Endless Slideshow Screensaver is really two programs in one and allows you to make the best of your photos while you are away from your PC.

Firstly, it allows you to display your photos or any other pictures from local or network folders in a slideshow mode with lots of cool transition effects, customizable delays between pictures, and a few other basic tweaks. Secondly, it can automatically download your desktop wallpapers from the Internet and display them in a slideshow along with your pictures. Simply select the kind of wallpapers you want to see and the program does the rest. The choices are rather generic and a bit cliched such as Nature, Animals, Animation, Cars etc but it does refresh regularly although after a while, you'll inevitably see the same old pictures repeated over and over. You can refresh pictures by pressing a key at any time although the problem with this is that if it's in screensaver mode, pressing a key wakes the computer from it's sleep and could end up abruptly ending your slideshow presentation.

With support for all major picture formats (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP) and automatic downloading of pictures, you can be sure that Endless Screenshow Screensaver will provide hours of screen saving entertainment.

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We all know this multiple Emmy Award and Golden Globe award-winning TV series carried out during six seasons from 1998 to 2004. Noted as the most important television show for fashion and its industry, it tackled socially relevant issues, often specifically dealing with women in society in the late 1990s, and how changing roles and definitions for women affected the four main characters.

For all the millions of fans of this fantastic series, here’s the official screensaver which will bring to your desktop all the allure of the four stylish women, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda and that feeling of friendship, love and disillusion-illusion, that appealed to so many of us. Just set the slideshow rate, something like 5 seconds, and when you see a picture you particularly like, click the ‘set as wallpaper’ option. If it doesn’t work, which can happen, have a look at the collection I’ve zipped for you.

This screensaver consists of twelve screenshots for the cinematic adaptation of the famous TV series with lively captures and romantic moments. You’ll love it.

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If you're a real Twitter junkie you're going to love this screensaver: with TwittEarth you'll be able to follow twits from all over the world in real time.

The screensaver is actually based on a web mash-up created by a group of developers (who are also Twitter fans, of course) just for fun. The screensaver loads up the Twitter timeline and displays it on a colorful animated globe, with cute characters representing each Twitter user.

In spite of being a 3D screensaver, TwittEarth doesn't use up a lot of resources and works fine almost on any computer. The only flaw I found was that twitts written in special characters (i.e. Japanese, Chinese) don't show up properly.

With TwittEarth you can follow live twits from all over the world in a nice 3D planet Earth that moves on your desktop while you're away.

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If you can't afford a real aquarium and all its equipment, you can at least install this virtual aquarium and enjoy the view from your computer chair.

Crawler 3D Marine Aquarium Screensaver displays a complete aquarium while you're not using the PC, turning your monitor into a tank full of sea creatures. You can choose between several aquariums and also download new fish species.

I especially liked the fact that 3D Marine Aquarium Screensaver displays some information about each kind of animal that appears on the screen; it makes the screensaver not only attractive but also informative. On the downside, you can't remove some items like the calendar or the search field, which I personally found kind of annoying.

With Crawler 3D Marine Aquarium Screensaver you can enjoy a realistic aquarium in your PC. It's a shame some elements can't be removed from the screen.

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If you are willing to give up smoking, or you would like someone you love to quit, there is hope. Free Anti-Smoking Screensaver, as the title says, is supposed to help smokers to realise that, while they smoke, they hurt themselves and others. It's a good screensaver also if you like horror movies!

In this 3D animation the smoker is symbolized with a pretty frightening skeleton who hides himself while smoking and coughing. The surrounding environment also doesn't look that good - it's a sort of a nightmare fscenario.

Technically speaking the animation is smooth and 'impressive'. Whether it is also effective, you will have to tell; I can just say it takes a lot of resources to run and when you move the mouse it doesn't respond immediately. In summary, I would use it just to scare a smoker, but not as an everyday screensaver.

Here's a screensaver you can install or send to your smoker friends as another way to effectively deliver your 'stop-smoking' advice.

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My sister loves cats. She's got four or five of them and she treats them just like her own children. I'm sure she and other cat lovers like her are going to love this screensaver.

Cat Licking Screensaver could be defined as the sequel of Screen Clean Screensaver, where a not very good-looking dog carefully cleaned your screen with its tongue. Now this cute cat is in charge of the same task and licks the whole screen without leaving a single area untouched.

The screensaver is very easy to install and features a simple settings menu where you can disable the licking sound if you don't like it. Even mute, the images are still very funny to see and the cat looks very realistic, although there's only one model included and no option to choose among several cats. Anyway, maybe it's because I prefer cats to dogs, but I like this screensaver better than the dog one.

Cat Licking Screensaver is a cute, funny screensaver that will appeal to all cat lovers.

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If you're a true Formula 1 fan you probably show off your support at all times. With the Formula 1 2008 Official Artwork Screensaver you'll be able to display this feeling on your computer too.

This screensaver is an official Formula 1 product featuring a collection of drawn Formula 1 cars, one for each Grand Prix. They are designed in a simple, almost minimalist way, in several shades of gray on a white background.

The drawings also include the date for each race as well as the main sponsor, which makes it seem a bit ad-ridden but, being the whole Formula 1 show an advertising platform on its own, I guess it's something F1 fans will be able to endure.

Show off your love for Formula 1 races with this simple and elegant screensaver from the official Formula 1 Championship website.

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I always wanted to be a breakdancer but nowadays this is about as close as I will ever get. My dreams of being in a Jason Nevins video died a long time ago.

But this is not bad in way of reminding me of what could have been and whatsmore, even learn a few moves. Free B-boy 3D Screen Saver is a fun screensaver that displays a skeletal outline of a break dancer that jumps around like it's got ants in his pants. Around his moves, are trace marks so you can see exactly everything that he's done and how he's done it. So it's great for those that are simply fans of the art-form or even those that want to learn a thing or two (although I wouldn't advise trying the head stand followed by double back somersault). It's a shame that they couldn't have added some decent music and perhaps made the skeleton a real B-Boy - which can't be difficult - but nevertheless, it's a great little screensaver that gives you something a bit different on your desktop that people will certainly notice.

Very impressive moves and lots of colour combine to make this one of the better screensavers out there and a must have for B-boy fans.

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Time is undoubtedly one of our greatest enemies: we're constantly fighting against it and trying to be ahead of it, in all aspects of our lives.

So what about having a good laugh at time? Install this funny screensaver and you'll be able not only to see the time in a cute 3D alarm clock, but also laugh at its desperate race across the country. Funnily enough, this clock will eventually get so tired that it'll need to have a rest from time to time. Wish I could do just the same when I'm late for work!

The Running Clock 3D Screesaver features a basic configuration menu where you can decide whether to display time and FPS or not. There's also the option to choose between 12 and 24 hour systems. Music can't be turned off though.

Running Clock 3D Screesaver is a funny way to protect your monitor with a screensaver, while having a way to tell the time with just a quick glance at your screen.

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If you're a racing fan or just love your flash cars, and can't afford one, then this is the next big thing.

This BMW S3 is brought to you in a high definition screensaver which shows the stunning car in all it's glory. The car is photographed in 3D from all angles and the screensaver camera revolves around the car revealing every contour of its tyres, spoilers and chassis. Are you a fan of Formula 1 or NASCAR? Do you feel adrenaline rushing into your veins when you exceed speed-limit while driving your car? You can also see the car put through its paces with the dials and speedometers visible in the exterior. The skyline is based on some sort of Manhattan skyscraper downtown scene which is the only drawback because it becomes incredibly repetitive as do the camera sweeps and brief burst of action the car launches into.

Still, if you're a sports car fan and would like to sex-up your desktop with something other than Angelina Joline, this is just as sexy.

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Sometimes you need something to literally scare the wits out of you to wake you up during a working day.

Ok, this is not exactly Freddy Kruger but it's a pretty cool creepy scrrensaver for horror fans or anyone that's ever watched Psycho. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be Dracula's Castle (it's a bit dark to tell) but the point is that it's well done and comes with some ghoulish sound effects which are really realistic, if a bit funny at times. This 3D screensaver whisks you around the castle and leaves your imagination to work out what's going on inside as the rain lashes down. Just be careful to turn the volume down if you leave it running in the office as the ghoulish screams, laughs and thunder strikes will annoy the hell out of colleagues.

A creepy but brilliantly designed and atmospheric screensaver for adding a bit of ghoulish fun to your day.

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GTA IV, the fourth episode in the Grand Theft Auto series, will soon be hitting game shop shelves worldwide. But while waiting for that glorious day to come, we may as well drool over the game's latest screenshots in its official wallpaper.

The GTA IV Screensaver includes snapshots from game footage and displays them on your computer as a photo slideshow. But that's not all: the screensaver will automatically connect to the GTA IV official website and download more screenshots as they become available to add them to the screensaver.

On the downside, I missed some basic configuration settings, like being able to set the time period or even choosing between different transition effects.

In all, the official GTA IV Screensaver lets you take a sneak peek at one of the most awaited games of this year and keeps you updated with new screenshots.

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Do you need to let someone from your office know terribly you fancy them, maybe without revealing your identity? Are you still so in love with your sweetheart that you need to tell them how much you love them? Or maybe you are the type of person who never says "I love you", and you would like to find an easy way to express yourself?

The St. Valentine’s Screensaver will help. Install it on your partner’s computer the night before Valentine’s day and the surprise effect will be guaranteed! Isn’t it romantic?

The screensaver is full of beautiful heart-shaped bunches of roses. Although the style of the transition effect is honestly a bit ugly, it remains a sweet thought. It's worth noting, though, that not everyone might appreciate the dominant colors in the screensaver's images: nearly all the roses are red and pink.

Warning! Do not take this as a substitute for real roses.

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The screen is probably the dirtiest component in your computer. Dust, fingerprints and other elements conspire against you and your efforts to keep it clean.

Fortunately you can now count on a very original assistant: a small pug dog which will carefully lick the screen from within the computer. The whole scene makes a fun screensaver to gawk at while your PC is idle, although the screen may not end up as clean as we expected it to be.

Screen Clean Screensaver features a quite high image quality, complemented by dog sounds. It would have been great though to have more dogs to choose from or maybe another breed – pugs are certainly not the cutest dogs.

Screen Clean Screensaver features a very realistic dog inside your computer monitor, licking your screen in order to clean it. Pity it doesn’t' include more breeds.

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