Dec 11
With leopard you have the ability to display a Mosaic screen saver from a group of pictures.
It’s a little bit hidden, just follow these steps:
-open system preferences
-switch to Desktop & Screensaver
-open the screensavertab
-select a picturefolder on the left
-under the previewwindow you can select mosaic as displayoption.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Er, this only works with iPhoto if I’m right??
December 11th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
I believe you can select any folder on your filesystem as long as there’s photo’s in there
December 12th, 2007 at 4:09 am
And how do I reset the contents which are built at the first start?
Where do I find the file or the prefs?
December 12th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Super great feature, I love it! thx
December 12th, 2007 at 9:28 am
You can add every folder you like, the preinstalled Folders are no real folders they can be found as screensaverfiles at HD-System-library-screen saver
December 12th, 2007 at 10:04 am
“Hidden?” It’s one of the more heralded features of Leopard. It’s been mentioned on nearly every Mac OS X web site, blog and forum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTdj8IBtV8M
December 12th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I’m sure many users don’t know about this feature because many of them never used the slideshow as screensaver just like me. With the switch to leopard they don’t look for new features at something they never used. I would not go so far to say it’s one of the more heralded features of Leopard, I’ve never seen it on a mac OS X website. If you knew about it good for you if anybody seen this for the first time because of this post, good for him.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Ok, the prefs-file I was looking for is named com.apple.iphotomosaic.plist. This file represents the contents of iPhoto-library. You cannot build a mosaic with only fotos of a specific folder. I’m working on it….
December 17th, 2007 at 1:08 am
That’s pretty awesome! Thanks for that find. I love it!