I was looking for a screen saver that was unique and what I finally found was a screen saver that looked like the cascading code from the Matrix movies. What’s better, this particular screen saver grabs the latest commits from GitHub and uses them in the green cascade.
To grab it for yourself, go here: https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver
The GitHub Matrix Screensaver for Mac OSX shows a constant stream of recent commits from GitHub. It's based on my GitHub Matrix webapp project and on Tom Robinsons WebSaver project (kudos). Open the Mac OSX preferences, choose Screensaver, right click on Matrix and choose delete.
What I’d really like to do is feed in data from a custom database, such as of new user signups. I’ll be researching this and posting a tutorial soon!
Free Matrix Screensaver For Mac
GitHub Matrix The GitHub Matrix screensaver automatically downloads the most recent code commits from the open-source platform GitHub and displays the committed lines of code vertically in the style of the 'digital rain' seen on computer screens in the movie The Matrix. Decrypt code online. Free 0.06 MB for Mac 4,652. Matrix Screen Saver for Mac. I was looking for a screen saver that was unique and what I finally found was a screen saver that looked like the cascading code from the Matrix movies. What’s better, this particular screen saver grabs the latest commits from GitHub and uses them in the green cascade. Above screenshot shows the Matrix screensaver with the 'blue' color option. Below is a screenshot with the newer features including the white matrix option and the web window option with four quicktime movies playing at the bottom of screen. Click thumbnail for larger view.
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