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DESCRIPTION
My Living Desktop has been the only video desktop and screen saver product available for the Macintosh since 2005. It transforms your desktop into a moving, living environment by playing serene nature videos right on your desktop as you work. It comes with over three dozen Serene Scenes shot from all over the world. Plus users can import their own home movie video footage right into My Living Desktop for viewing on the desktop or as a screen saver.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.0:
  • Rebranded to better tell what it is
  • Internal fixes to prepare for the next release
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Amuse, Inc.
Downloads:10,029
  - Version d/l:879
Utilities:Screen Savers
License:Shareware
Date:30 Apr 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$49.95
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My Living Desktop User Reviews (22 posts)Write A Review
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May 27 2009

JOHNBOLS  Guys,

I have this and it is GREAT and the service you get is even better, I installed my Imac again on a sunday but forgot to write down the serial. The same day I got my serial from the owner.

I'm very happy!

Only dont use movies that moves a lot, it will make you dizzy.  
(Version 4.0)

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May 27 2009

PURSUITOFEXCELLENCE  This is an excellent idea for a utility. I immediately started thinking of all the videos that I might put on the desktop. Unfortunately, the video quality of the sample videos leaves much to be desired on a 1900x1200 monitor, a size that is becoming increasingly common. The term "HD" used with this utility is an exaggeration; that might be true justified for a small monitor, but the video flaws are quite apparent on a large monitor. Before I would but this utility, I would want to know exactly what video resolutions are supported and the resolution of the 40 downloadable scenes. Once it supports 1080p resolution, I have no doubt that My Living Desktop will be a big hit (and will also motivate people to buy high def video cameras).  
(Version 4.0)

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May 1 2009
*****

SHOTGUNWEDDINGS  I love this set of looped screen savers, they are not only the highest quality ones made by anyone to date and the user support is also great.

I don't mind the price tag too much, a little pricey, but then you always have to pay a little more when it comes to better quality.

As for the complainers below, get a job or pay for it you bums LOL  
(Version 4.0)

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Jan 25 2009

SILVERITY  Is there any plans for 1080p savers?  
(Version 3.1.2)

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Jan 24 2009

KEVYK  Actually all the scenes that are downloaded are demoable. There are 4 of them in all in the demo and 40 of them in all in a purchased product. You can choose which scene to evaluate right from within Serene Saver Pro's System Preferences under its Scenes tab, or if you choose you can just do nothing and Serene Saver Pro will automatically and randomly choose a scene for you to view every 1/2 hour. You can also program this interval anywhere from 5 minutes to once a day.

I hope that helps,  
(Version 3.1.2)

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Nov 30 2008

ADONSA  First impression (of the demo).

The demo is NOT fully functional during the 10 day "trial" limit. It seems to download other scenes, however the screensaver defaults back to the sunset ocean scene even though other scenes are selected. Therefore eval of other scenes is impossible. The crippleware demo also displays an obnoxious narrative at the bottom of the screen when the screensaver is invoked.

Developers need to get a clue and realize that obnoxious crippleware is not the way to sell a product. The 10 day limit should suffice, but "ohhh noooo" they just gotta cripple it to make it look sick.

No demo is better than a crippled demo. It's better to make a quicktime movie of how the real thing runs, then make the beta testers ensure that there are no compatibility issues.

If you want to sell a product, then you need to present it to would-be buyers favorably, and crippling with obnoxious messages is counterproductive. Pricing. %50-$70 for a screensaver? Wouldn't more people buy it if it were competitively priced? Even the MacZot discount seems high for a screensaver. Oh well, what you charge is your call.   
(Version 3.1.1)

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Nov 29 2008

KEVYK  We've fixed the uninstaller. A single click is all that is needed to remove Serene Saver Pro now.  
(Version 3.1.1)

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Jul 15 2008

SMTIPS  And then on unistall it does the below in a terminal window? What Mac application kicks up a terminal window when you uninstall it?? That's just kind of lame, you need a better way...Why do I have to give my password to uninstall? I know what I want on my Mac when I'm logged in as the Admin. If it were a limited user account that was trying to uninstall then I could see it...but it's not.

Serene Saver 2 HD Uninstall

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Please authenticate this uninstall by typing your administrator password.

This is the password you created when you initially set up your Macintosh.

You will not see it being typed and it is used ONLY to uninstall

Serene Saver 2 HD. To cancel, just close this window.

Password:  
(Version 3.0.5)

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Jul 15 2008

SMTIPS  Looks great. Checking out the trial now.

Couple things:

The Lushness Trail trial scene does not work at all on the desktop.Even when I have it selected as the only one, one of the others appears for the desktop.

After popping up a reminder notice within 10 minutes of installing the trial that Serene saver has GONE PRO, and kicking the movie out of full screen that I was watching, the sound started working on them. It hadn't before that.

Now after turning the sound off in all 4 trial scenes, the sound won't go away. I will have to uninstall it to get it to quit playing the sound.

If this is any indication of how it behaves in the full paid version I won't even consider buying it. Because it seems BUGGY with the trial. A trial should work JUST LIKE the paid version does. And it should kick a movie out of full screen with a reminder notice. I read that it was a 10 day trial when I installed it...I don't WANT any frigging popups interfering with me til my 10 days is up.

So I'm unimpressed with the behavior of it, but very impressed with the scenery and the sounds. That is, if it's possible to STOP the sounds and it doesn't seem like it is once they are selected.  
(Version 3.0.5)

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Jun 27 2008
*****

SHOTGUNWEDDINGS  I don't what rock buddy crawled out from under to claim there is a FREE alternative to this, there are none, I checked all the freebies out.

This is the only one that offers such high quality audio and visual looped screensavers.

I was hooked the first time I tried the older version and this just gets better each major version jump.

If you think the price is too much then collect some more cans and bottles kiddies, its worth supporting a good developer.

And yes I do agree with one post below, an updater would be nice instead of the massive download each time an update is out :(  
(Version 3.0.5)

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