Valentine Screensavers


Valentines Day Screensavers- A Perfect Gift to your Beloved on Valentines Day

Here you are, it’s late on the evening of February 14th, this most romantic of all days. You leave the office with a spring in your step as you envision the many ways you are going to tell your beloved you love her as you present her with a bouquet of her favorite flowers. Images of a candle light dinner with soft romantic music in the background crowd your mind and fill you with pleasure. Love is definitely in the air.

You go to the florist and to your utter dismay they are all out of flowers. Looks like every other lover in town had the same idea. You have to agree, trying to buy flowers on Valentines Day is definitely a bad idea. Perhaps a box of chocolates would do? But that reeks of ‘I-got-this-last-minute-because-they-ran-out-of-flowers.’ Every other paramour buys chocolates when they cannot get flowers.

The least you can do is go across to the card shop and buy the biggest Valentines Day card you can find. Better still; why not gift your sweetheart a Valentines Day screensaver? Just a quick look at the internet and you will see a plethora of Valentines Day screensavers easily and freely available.

Some of the benefits of gifting a Valentines Day screensaver include:

  • You do not have to worry about them ever running out.
  • With the vast assortment of Valentines Day screensavers available you do not have to worry about several other people having the same one as you.
  • Valentines screensavers can be customized and personalized, sending out an extra-special message to someone special.
  • Screensavers are free to download, easy to install and fun to watch

So what are you waiting for? Get on to your computer and start your search for Valentines Day screensavers. You can tell which sites feature the best screensavers as the more popular sites typically appear lagged from all the internet traffic hitting it. Choose a screensaver, download the executable file and install it onto to your computer. That’s it; you’re done!

Most Valentines Day screensavers feature a profusion of red hearts and red roses that fill up the screen and say ‘I love you’ in several different ways. Valentines Day screensavers that feature 3D hearts and romantic quotes flying in and out of your screen transform your computer into a love machine.

You could choose the Valentines Day screensaver that features cute little valentine hearts that boogey all over the screen to the tune of upbeat boogie music. Music is an option on most screensavers and can be shut off when not necessary. Many of the Valentine holiday screensavers use bits of poetry here and there to convey its message of love to your heart throb. Come Valentines day and you will find it extremely difficult to resist all those red hearts beckoning out to you from the computer.
Why not choose a Valentines Day Screensaver that features Cupid, the winged matchmaker himself. Download it on your computer and watch each arrow explode into a number of little 3D animated hearts. Personalizing this Valentines Day screensaver with photos of yourself and your wife will earn you enough brownie points to hold you in good stead till next year.

Why are they called screensavers?
Screensavers - Is there something more to the name?

A screen saver is a computer program that replaces the image on a computer screen when the screen is idle, that is, when the computer has not been in use for a certain specified amount of time.  In other words, when a preset period of time elapses without any user activity on the computer screen, it triggers off animated images that appear on the screen. These images are popularly known as screensavers.

Why screensavers? The name ‘screensaver’ is derived from the fact that the screen is really being ‘saved’ with the appearance of this preset animation.  Older computers experienced something called ‘phosphor burn-in’ when any one image was displayed on their screen or monitors for an extended period of time.  This is because most computer screens back then were made with Cathode-ray tubes or CRTs.  These CRTs produced an image on the computer screen by emitting a steady stream of electrons at the phosphor-coated screen. If any one image was allowed to remain on the screen for an elongated period of time, the phosphors could get damaged permanently, resulting in a faint image of whatever was left on the screen. You will find that if you were working on a drawing or on drafting the letter, those graphics or the content of that letter would be faintly visible on your monitor like a ghost for the rest of its life. This effect etches the image on the screen and is also known as “screen- fade.”

Enter screen savers. These innovative programs are designed to measure the length of time since you last banged on your keyboard or clicked on your mouse. After the preset length of time has elapsed, the screen saver will trigger off a constantly moving graphical image to replace the static image on the screen. The images initiated by the screen saver are designed to never stay in one place long enough to cause burn-in.

So, this is why screen savers were first created and why they were so called. However, computer technology has come a long way since then and modern CRTs are designed and built using much more advanced technology. Newer CRTs have enhanced phosphor coatings that no longer suffer any kind of ‘phosphor burn-in’.  Also, computer images of today are lower contrast than the black and white graphics and text of older machines.
Display panels of laptop computers and LCD monitors are safe from any kind of burn-in process. 

Despite not being necessary for practical purposes the popularity of screensavers continues its upward journey unabated. However, screen savers are now used more for fun than for protection. Screen saver developers compete with each other to create screen savers that are the best and the zaniest of them all- and all this just for entertainment purposes. After all, it is certainly far more amusing to watch your screen come to life slowly and steadily with your chosen screen saver rather than watch the text sit there doing absolutely nothing. How utterly boring!

Screensavers have divided computer users into two camps- those who advocate leaving the computer on at all times with the screen saver running and those who argue that screen saver or not, leaving a monitor on is a sheer waste of precious energy and so computers and their screen savers should be shut down when not in use. Admittedly, this is a personal choice and has nothing to do with screen savers per se.