A running screensaver is supposed to reduce damage to your computer’s display and can help you relax when you want to take a break from your work. The most important thing about nowadays screensavers is the fact that they are very amazing pieces of work and some of you can say that they are amazing pieces of art.

In this article we are going to present a lot of new, stunning and unique screensavers for Apple iMac because we know how important is for you to have great screensaver for your computer. Many of those screensavers will catch your attention and you will certainly want to have them.

Let’s start with My Living Desktop 4.56. This is more than just a simple screensaver, is a combination between a moving wallpaper also known as a video desktop and a screensaver. This application will help you chance your perception about screensavers and will help you create a brand new desktop to your Apple iMac, turning it into a great moving environment.

This application gives you many relaxing and stunning high quality video scenes which you can use as your computer’s screensaver or as your desktop. The videos represent scenes from all around the world; therefore you have a lot to choose from. If you don’t like want you in My Living Desktop 4.56 you can always import your own video scenes or movies and you can transform them into a beautiful screensaver or a unique desktop.



This nice application includes features like: Action, Camera and Lights – allowing you to import your own movie segments or video scenes.

If you like this application you can download it from apple.com and you need to have Mac OS X 10.5 or later, 1GB of free space on your hard drive and at least 1GB of RAM.

What is more relaxing than a forest? Maybe a rain forest and, even better, a 3D rain forest. The next screensaver for your Apple iMac is the 3D Rain Forest Adventure, this one is full of color and life. You can watch as butterflies and birds fly, primates and big cats climb and walk among jungle foliage.  A tropical rain forest adventure can’t be complete without a waterfall and you can see one in the background of this beautiful tropical environment. You can set the screensaver to night or to a sunset scene and you can see how the colors and the shadows of the wallpaper and animals change. This screensaver is not all about the looks, you can hear nice rain forest sound affects with every new animal.

You can fully customize it to your preferences: you can change the volume control, the brightness, the time of day and you can set in on mute if you don’t want to hear the sound effects.

This 3D Rain Forest Adventure screensaver also offers password protection, it can be use with dual monitors and it is updated for Snow Leopard.

LotsaWater is a Snow Leopard compatible screensaver for your Apple iMac. It is very realistic and it provides very nice water effects showing you raindrops that fall over your desktop surface while your desktop is distorted. It doesn’t use a lot of your CPU power and if you have problem installing it or making it work, you should remove the previous version (if you have one) and reinstall it.


Winter Train 3D Screensaver is another nice screensaver for your Apple iMac. You can customize it with an analogue clock or a digital clock and it was lots of details and colors, making it perfect for the long winter nights.

The scene in this screensaver is e beautiful alpine one with a highly detailed steam locomotive. It is compatible with Snow Leopard and you can download it from apple.com.

3D DNAtrix 3.2 is showing you streams of your DNA code made from dark green letters with a green rotating double helix. You can see spinning, falling and floating DNA code letters: T, G, C and A. You can change the default colors using color preset buttons and you can control the sound of the screensaver and the brightness. This screensaver contains MP3 sound files and it is compatible with Snow Leopard.



Fireflies flicker through a forest is a very relaxing ambiance, therefore the 3D Twilight Fireflies 3.3 is the perfect Apple iMac screensaver if you want relax and in the same time hear the sound of crickets singing and croaking. You can set the time of day into night and you will see a shadowy blue hue embracing the fireflies, the pond and the woods. You can set the screensaver also to a sunset scene. 3D Twilight Fireflies 3.3 is updated for Snow Leopard.



Screen Elements 1.2 is a slideshow screensaver with great and nice background transitions. To the background transition feature you can use your own image, desktop images or Mac OS X wallpapers.



The slideshow offers you the possibility to start with a drop effect, a bubble effect or a puzzle effect. You can choose your pictures or images and also the iPhoto album for the slideshow.

This screensaver has great effects like: linear and random animation, flip, dissolve, drops, bubble and puzzle animation.  Screen Elements 1.2 works with Snow Leopard.



The 3D Mountain Waterfall 4.3 is another great screensaver for your Apple iMac. You will see nice birds flying through the scene and an amazing waterfall. You can hear the bird calls and the roaring of the waterfall. You have control over the sound effects and if you don’t want to hear the sounds to can set them to mute and you can also control the brightness of the screensaver. This cool screensaver supports dual monitors and it gives you a password protection feature.



If you wan to have fearsome 3D Sharks moving down, up, right, left, forward and backward on your screen you can choose the 3D Sharks 3.4 screensaver. This is an amazing screensaver that will make you experience the ocean depths.

The iSght webcam for iMac is a hidden camera behind the glass display at the top of the screen. You don’t need to install drivers to make it work, because it works out-of-the box. You can communicate with the love ones, you can video chat with your colleagues or friends and you can even make presentations to up to three clients from the comfort of your home or office.


The built-in iSight webcam works thanks to its internal USB 2.0 interface. It uses CMOS Active pixel sensor and is fixed-focus with plastic lens. With EyeSight software you can use iMac iSight webcam to keep on eye on your room and your belongings. The software allows the iSight webcam to take a maximum 640 x 480 pixel picture size, but you can adjust it if you want a smaller resolution. The picture formats are the following: bmp, tiff, png and jpg. You can save your picture on disk and if you want you can upload them on a FTP server.

Using your built-in iMac iSght webcam is very easy. You can use it for video conferencing, to do that you must have the following: you can video conference with your family and friends, but they have to have video conferencing capability and an iChat AV user. If you have a dial-up Internet connection you won’t be able to make a video conferencing and to do that you need a local area network or a broadband Internet connection. You must have an AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) account or an AOL (America Online) account because you need these accounts for iChat AV.

To start and video conference you must open iChat AV and click on the Camera button. If your iSght webcam doesn’t work make sure that the “Camera Connected” option is enabled. You will find this option in the Video menu.

To see if your built-in iSight camera captures video, you have to see if the green LED next to it lights. In the mean time iChat AV will send an invitation to your friend or client to participate at your video chat. You can preview and adjust your appearance and when your client or your friend accepts the invitation you will appear on his/her screen and him/she will appear on your screen.



If you want to have a video conference with more than one friend you can use your iSght webcam to do that.  You can have a video conference with 3 friends and two of your friends are participants and one friend is the host of the video conference. To start a video conference with more than one friend you should follow the next steps: you have to open iChat AV and select the friends you want to talk to while you hold down the Command key. After you selected your friends click the Camera button and the video conference can start.

You can also use your built-in iMac iSght webcam to take pictures and to use them as a buddy icon. You can take pictures of your self or of your new acquisitions and use them as your buddy icon so everyone in your Buddy List will be able to see them.

To take pictures of yourself follow the next steps:  first you must open iChat AV and then choose the Change My Picture option from the Buddies menu. A Buddy Picture window will open and after you adjust your appearance click on the Camera Button and select the “Take Video Snapshot” option and that is it. You now have a picture of you to use as your buddy icon and everyone can see your beautiful smile.

If you want to turn off the built-in iSight camera you have to close the iChat window and will see that the green LED next to it will no longer light and that is how you know that your webcam is off.



If this built-in iSght webcam doesn’t meet your expectations you can try the external Apple iSght camera. It has a nice design and provides high quality images and high quality colors. If you are using iChat to communicate with others, this camera is perfect for you because is has a flawless integration with iMovie and iChat AV, but it doesn’t work so well with other messaging applications.

The camera doesn’t come with any software CD or DVD, therefore it doesn’t need installation, and all you have to do is connect it through the FireWire port. The camera also has a sensitive microphone and it is very attractive and sleek. When the iSght camera is plugged in the iChat AV application will be lanced and if you don’t have iChat AV installed on your computer iSght will open a window that will guide you to the installation process.

This great camera comes also with 3 mounting options: a special mount for iBooks and PowerBooks, desktop computer mount and a plastic stand for eMac and a magnetic LCD mount.

You can’t adjust the contrast, the brightness, the color saturation and focus because the camera does all that for you. The sound quality and the images transmitted are great and the camera doesn’t have any problem maintaining constant sound and video.

It is a pricey webcam, but it offers you high quality features: great sound, high quality images and it works very well with iMovie and iChat AV and you can use it for video conference or just to communicate with your colleagues and friends.  You can find it on amazon.com at a price of 299.00 USD.

Microsoft Office 2008 for Apple iMac is the best choice everyone can make at school, work or office. Microsoft Office for iMac comes with great features for creating effective presentations, rich documents and dynamic spreadsheets. The compatibility is vital when it comes to spreadsheets, documents and presentations because you need to access them even if you have a Mac platform or a PC platform. With Microsoft Office for iMac you can feel confident that the documents and files you share can be viewed by everyone regardless of the operating system and regardless of the computer.

The Microsoft Office for Windows and for Mac has the same graphics engine and the same file format proving every user with easy and great compatibility.  This powerful software and it is the most powerful and easy to use spreadsheet for Mac users. With Microsoft office for iMac you can create high quality presentations and documents, presentations, clip art for newsletters and many more.

Microsoft Office has 500 million users world wide and almost everyone knows how to use Microsoft Office for creating a document or a presentation. This great software is ideal for office use or for home use especially if you use different computers at home and at the office.

If you want to buy Microsoft Office 2008 for iMac you can choose from 3 main editions: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition and Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Business Edition.

The Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac edition includes: Microsoft Server Exchange Support, Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel and Word. This edition has an easier to use interface and many new and great features.

The Microsoft Office 2008 Home & Student Edition includes: Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel and Word. It has a professional design and come with many customizable templates perfect for school projects.

The Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Business Edition includes: Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Microsoft Office Server Exchange. You can manage your daily appointments and e-mails with Entourage.



The Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services offers you the possibility to share and store tasks, calendars, contacts and documents in a secure and single location. Thanks to the customizable business templates you can create great flyers, newsletters and brochures.

Entourage 2008 comes with features like: Junk E-Mail, Project Center and My Day. My Day helps you keep an eye on your tasks and schedules in an easy to use interface. You make a better appointments and schedule list thanks to the status indicator feature and color-coded categories. Project Center keeps all your information under control, because all your contacts, schedules, documents and e-mail messages will be in one place.

You don’t have to keep Entourage 2008 open if you want to see your agenda, because My Day syncs with your agenda information and you will be able to access it through a little and easy to use interface.



Thanks to the junk e-mail filers, Entourage 2008 gives you the possibility to keep the illegitimate messages away from your inbox and to receive only the e-mails you want.

Word 2008 offers an intuitive user interface with rich themes and many designer templates. The new documents elements and themes will allow you to create great looking documents. The SmartArt feature will give you the possibility to transform the text into diagrams and high-quality graphics.

The customizable workspace will let you create rich brochures, flyers and newsletters.



PowerPoint 2008 will make your presentation better than a story, it will illustrate it. The Object Palette option will provide you quick access to pictures, iPhoto files, symbols, art and shapes. Dynamic Guides will allow you to resize and place your graphic element in order to create a better looking presentation. PowerPoint 2008 has an Apple Remote Control integration which lets you concentrate on your words and graphics and not on your keyboard.

If you are a businesses person or you are a student, you can make great-looking designs to impress your clients or your colleagues and your teachers. You can choose from design themes, business reports, business letters and a lot of presentations and spreadsheets. You can easily change your presentations and illustrations with just one click and you can make them look fantastic.

Excel 2008 you can create charts, manage your data, share and analyze. Ledger Sheets a feature of Excel 2008 is able to make automatic calculations, you can track your inventories and your finances. The data you can create on Excel 2008 has no limits, because Excel can support over 1 million rows and 16.000 columns.



With this software everyone from beginners to professionals can learn great ways to make cool looking financial reports. You can build great graphs and persuasive charts. Excel 2008 also gives you soft shadows, powerful tools and chart templates and 3D effects.

With this Microsoft Office package comes also Messenger for Mac which can help you communicate whit your colleagues, friends and family. Messenger for Mac has now Spelling Checker and provides instant face-to-face communication.

The system requirements for Microsoft Office 2008 for your iMac are the following: you have to have Mac OS X v.10.4.9 or better, your iMac must have at least 512 MB of RAM, your hard drive has to have at least 1 GB free disk space, HFS + hard disk format, 1024 x 768 display resolution or a higher monitor resolution and a DVD drive.

Overall Microsoft Office 2008 for iMac is a very complex software and can be very useful when it comes to your home works, presentations or graphics.

Microsoft Word for iMac is from students to CEOs, for everyone who wants to create temples, media layouts, reports, brochures and great looking newsletters.

If you are a writer you can create book in a better and faster way, if you are a student you can make and assemble better reports and if you are a lawyer, Microsoft Word for iMac can help built cases in less time.

Everyone can save precious time with pre-formatted bibliographies, footers, headers, cover pages and tables of contents. If you need to create overnight great looking reports, newsletters, brochures or flyers, Microsoft Word for iMac is the perfect choice for you thanks to its easy to use templates and layout tools.

Microsoft Word allows you to put the text and the images exactly where you want thanks to its control content and easy to move options with linked text boxes which allows you to move the words to one spot to the next and wherever you want.

You don’t have to import the text or the images in a complicated way, just drag and drop them your images, graphics and text until you realize the perfect document or newsletter.

Microsoft Word is one of the most popular word and text processing programs that works both with PC platforms and Mac platforms. You can also use Microsoft Word to create lists, simple web pages, outlines and rich documents.

Using Microsoft Word on an iMac is very easy as you will see in the next lines. If you want to create a new document you have to open Microsoft Word and the way to do that is to go to Macintosh HD select Applications, then search for Microsoft Office 2008 and choose Microsoft Word. The application will open with a blank document, but if this thing doesn’t happen you have to go to the Project Gallery and select the Word Document option.  After you did these steps a blank document will open and you can start to work at your projects.

If you are typing a large or a very important document is essential to save it form time to time to make sure that your information is safe because documents are lost all the time and computers can crash without any warning. To save a document to have to File and select Save As option. After you did this, the program will open a dialog box where you have to type the files mane and specify the location where you want to save it. Once you did all these you have to press the Save button and your document will de saved.

If you want to change or modify something in your document Microsoft Word uses toolbars to help you do that. You will see commonly used toolbars: the Menu toolbar, the Standard toolbar and the Formatting toolbar.

Let’s start with the first one – the Menu toolbar. This one contains and is constructed of word commands and has all the options available in this software. You can change and format your documents using this toolbar.

The second one is the Standard toolbar. This one has icons for commands like: Spell Check, Tables, Print, Columns, Format, Open and Save. These icons are very useful and convenient if you need to make a quick and easy change to your document.

The third one is the Formatting toolbar. This one has icons for formatting actions like” Font Color, Spacing, Indentation, Bulleted List, Numbered List, Alignment, Underline, Italic, Bold, Font Size and Font Style. As the names of these icons implies you can make great changes with them in your document.

Microsoft Word has a default page margin for documents at 1.25 – inch and if you need to format the size of the document you have to go to Format and select Document. Once you have selected the Document option, a menu will appear where you can type the size you want at the Top, the Bottom, Left and Right of the document.

In this menu you can also change the Layout of the document, to do this you have to click on the Page Setup and select the orientation you want form Landscape and Portrait.

Cut, Copy and Paste are very common features of Microsoft Word. The Paste feature is used to insert whatever you have copied or cut. The Copy feature allows you to insert a copy of a selection leaving the original selection in its place. And the Cut feature will allows you to insert a selection somewhere else and in the same time removing it from the original location.

If you want to Copy or to Cut you must follow these instructions: first you have to highlight the text you want to Copy or Cut. To do that you have to click and drag over the text, then go to the Edit menu and select the Copy or Edit option and from there select Cut and if you want to Paste go to the same menu and select Paste.


If you want to create a simple and easy list, you can on the Bullet or Number button or go to Format and select Bullets and Numbering and you will see you have many different type of bullets to choose from. Once you have select the one you like click the OK button.

If you want to have a more complex list you can add columns to it. The way to do that is to go to Format and select Columns. A menu will appear that will give you the possibility to choose the spacing between columns, to set column width and to set a number of columns you want. The design you have selected will appear in a Preview box and if you like what you see you can press the OK button and you will have the columns in the program.

You can also add and insert objects. Windows Word has a lot of backgrounds, borders and pictures to choose from and if you don’t like them you can insert your own. To insert a clip from the Clip Gallery you have to go to Insert select Picture and then select Clip Art. If you found a clip or a picture you like click on the Insert button. In the Clip Gallery you will find an Import button that will help you import pictures and images from your computer to your Word document.

Windows Word for iMac is not complicated, but it has many complex options and you will need some time figured them out, but it is a great word processing software.

Apple iMac’s software works very well in many occasions, but if you find yourself in the situation when you need to reinstall the software on your iMac, you should follow a few easy steps to make a simple and problem-free reinstallation.

If your iMac is not working properly you have to be sure that the problem is a software problem and not a hardware problem, because if it is hardware reinstalling the OS X software on your iMac will not make the hardware problem go away.

Before any type of installation, the best advice you should take in consideration, is to back up your information and your personal files, because if you don’t do that, you have a big chance of loosing them.

There are many ways to back up your information and below we will present 3 of them:

-          The first and the safest one is to copy them on an external hard drive. This is the preferred method because the hard drive is able to store a lot of data in a secure and safe place. If you don’t have an external hard drive, you can always try the method.

-          You can save the files and information on DVDs or CDs. This will take you a lot of time because these store devices have a limited storage capacity. This option can help you if your iMac has a disc burner and if it is bootable.

-          The last option is to save your file and to back up them on-line. The way to do this is to have a MobileMe account or a FTP server account. After you saved them online and you reinstalled your iMac’s software you can copy them back into your computer.

When you decide what to back up, you should save only the useful information, you don’t need to save and you up your applications or your system files. The system files will be restored after the installation process and after that you can install the applications you need.

You can back up the information using a back up application such as Dmailer Back Up which offers you the possibility to store your files in your hard drive, your mp3 player, your USB drive or a network location.

The next step is to insert the Mac OS X DVD that came with your iMac. After you inserted the DVD, your iMac will start up from it. You will see 3 different types of installation to choose from:

-          Archive and Install –this type of installation will move your existing system files and components into the “Previous System” folder. This type of installation will also keep your personal files and your user accounts.

-          Archive and Install (Not Preserving User and Network Settings) – the name says it all. If you choose this type of installation your network setting and your user accounts will be moved into the “Previous System” folder and after the installation is complete you will have to reconfigure the network options and settings and recreate your user accounts. This option doesn’t erase your personal files; they will be saved on the hard drive.

-          Erase and Install - this type of installation will erase all the files and all the information from your iMac’s hard drive and will reinstall the software.

If your iMac doesn’t boot on its on from the Mac OS X Install DVD you can restart the computer and hold down the “C”. You should keep holding down the “C” until you see the Apple logo and a grey screen. The next step is to choose the language, click “Continue”, then click “Agree” at the Software License Agreement. After you did all this step you will have to choose the volume where you want reinstall the software (you will have to have at least 10 GB of free space on that volume) and then choose the installation type you want and the reinstallation will begin.

After the installation you will have to update the software, you can do this by clicking on the Apple icon and selecting the “Soft Update” option.

After the installation is complete, the system will ask you to create your user account and if you choose to save your personal files to the “Previous System” folder you can migrate them into the new system. The idea is to restore them to their corresponding place in the new system.

If you encounter some restrictions which prevent you from copy the information from the “Previous System” to the new one you should create a root user on the new system, log out and then log back in as a root user.

The main idea is to keep your new system clean, therefore do not copy the files you already have on the new system from the “Previous System” folder. An example can be the Safari application. You will find it old Application folder, but if you look in the Application folder you will se that is already there, so you don’t have to replace the new one with the old one. You have to re careful not to over write the existing files with the old ones.

After the files migration you should delete the “Previous System” folder, this will prevent that the application from that folder which you don’t longer need won’t start up by accident.

If you have some new software you want to install, you should install it now but be careful and look into your system because many of the applications you need are already installed.

The final step is to restore your files and information from the external hard drive or from your DVDs.

As you can see, reinstalling the software on your iMac is not a complicated process but you have to be careful at what type of installation you choose, if you want or don’t want to back up your files and finally, to be careful not to overwrite the existing files with the new ones.