Mac3DWatch - The Official Page

Mac3DWatch is an Universal Binary ScreenSaver for MacOS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 or higher delivering RSS news feeds (it has been the first one in its category). It shows a live and spinning 3D metal watch synchronized with your local system watch, plus, optionally (in an overlaid scrolling text) your favourite and customizable RSS and Stock Quote news feeds. You can customize up to 99 RSS news feed with your favourite one. And you can customize up to 99 Stock Quotes channels with your favourite Stock Symbols. Last, you can set up to 99 alarms which will play a sound, a list of songs or an iTunes playlist at a given time. Whenever the screensaver comes out, more than the local time, you will see your favourite latest RSS news or Stock Quotes news scrolling on your screen (see picture here below). Simply hit the keys from 1 to 99 to select the RSS or the Stock Quotes channel you want to see. M3DW can stop/run the scrolling RSS text to let you read better the news feeds. M3DW lets you change the speed of the scrolling text. M3DW lets you hit a key and go on a given RSS news web page to know more about that news. M3DW lets you leave the background color rotate or choose a fixed color. M3DW lets you change the rotation speed of the 3D watch. Mac3DWatch is shareware, it costs only $12.

• Picture 1: A screen shot of the screensaver showing the scrolling RSS text by BBC (September 7th 2004). • Hit the r key to select the RSS channels. Then hit the keys from 1 to 99 to select the RSS channel. • Hit the s key to select the Stock Quotes channels. Then hit the keys from 1 to 99 to select the Stock Quotes channel. • Hit the 0 key to deactivate the scrollign text. • Hit the space-bar to stop/run the RSS scrolling text for better reading the news feeds. • Hit the h key to see the help scrolling text. • Picture 2: some screen shots of the screensaver. • Hit the C key in order to leave the background color rotate. Hit the C key again to fix the current background color. • Hit and hold down for some second the 4 arrow-keys in order to change the rotation speed of the watch.

Download Mac3DWatch

Version 1.7 - Universal Binary version for MacOS X 10.5 Leopard - 12.02.2007 - 742Kb

Version 1.6 - Universal Binary version for MacOS X 10.4 Tiger - 10.24.2006 - 760Kb

Version 1.5 - PPC version for MacOS X 10.4 Tiger - 07.07.2005 - 620Kb

Version 1.3 - PPC version for MacOS X 10.3 Panther - 03.02.2005 - 761Kb

In order to install Mac3DWatch, please copy the file "Mac3DWatch.saver" within the folder (Home)/Library/Screen Savers/
then open the System Preferences panel and select the screensaver "Mac3DWatch". You can also quickly double click on the icon "Mac3DWatch.saver" and install it (as current user) automatically in a while.

Mac3DWatch is powered by the OpenGL graphic engine

Requirements:

• MacOS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 or higher
• Supported graphics cards (but not only):

ATI Radeon X1900 XT
ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
ATI Radeon 9800 XT (R360)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300)
ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (RV350)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (RV M11)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (RV M100)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400
NVIDIA GeForce 8600
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (NV40)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GL DDL
NVIDIA GeForce Go5200 (NV34M)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (NV34)
NVIDIA GeForce2MX

What's new:

What's new in the version 1.7.0 (December 2nd, 2007)
• Mac3DWatch is now compliant with MacOS X 10.5 Leopard.
• This is a free upgrade for all the version 1 registered users.

What's new in the version 1.6.0 (October 24th, 2006)
• This is an Universal Binary version therefore it runs on Mac and Mac-Intel machines. It requires MacOS X 1.4 or higher.
• This is a free upgrade for all the version 1 registered users.

What's new in the version 1.5.0 (07.07.2005)
• This is a free upgrade for all the version 1 registered users.
• This version runs on MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) and higher.
• You can increase/decrease the speed of the scrolling text pressing the top/bottom arrows key when a scrolling text is running.
• Fixed a bug which caused to stop the automatic rotation of the channels when an RSS channel was not available.
• Added a plastic effect to the internal ring of the watch.

Version 1.3.0 (03.02.2005)
• Added a check-box to Show/Hide the watch.
• Fixed a bug when switching from Test/Preview.
• Fixed some conflict with other screensavers.

Version 1.2.2 (10.19.2004)
• This version displays the german characters with umlaut properly.
• Various improvements at the scrolling text engine.

Version 1.2.1 (09.06.2004)
• Fixed a minor bug at the Registrations Activation System. This means that this version is even faster at launching itself.
• Improved the automatic notification of new versions.
• Added some RSS links to the RSS bank (Wall Street Journal).

Version 1.2 (09.01.2004)
• As requested, the RSS are customizable. The user can set up to 99 channels with his favourite RSS news feeds. More, this version grants an RSS bank of the most popular RSS news feeds links. The user can easily drag and drop the RSS from the bank to the active channels list.
• Added the Stock Quotes channels. The user can set up to 99 channels with his favourite Stock Symbols.
• Added the Alarm feature. The user can set up to 99 different alarms which will play a sound, a list of songs or an iTunes playlist at a given time.
• Restyled the watch and the layout of the news page.
• Various improvements at the graphic engine and interface.

Version 1.1 (07.19.2004)
• Replaced each news link with a string like "Press the key [ X ] to know more. So, if the user hits that key he will be taken (by his default browser) to that news-page on the RSS supplier web site.
• Fixed a minor but at replacing uppercase link tags within the RSS description.

Version 1.0 beta (03.01.2004)
• Just test this beta version and report bugs and feedback to us. Thank you.

Product Info:

Author: Softobe - License: Shareware - Price: $12

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