Scroller Screensaver

Scroller is a deceptively simple Windows screensaver that takes a web page and scrolls it up your screen. This allows you to have your favourite blog, news site, photo site or literally anything else on the web displayed as your screensaver.

If you're part of a team, whether for business or pleasure, Scroller is an ideal way to share information - simply have all the members of your team point their Scroller screensaver to the same internet (or intranet) web page, and whenever you update that page with current team news, project status, your latest sales figures, or anything else, everyone will see it next time their screensaver starts up.

As with earlier versions, Scroller 2.0 also allows you to have the contents of a plain text file scrolling as your screensaver - but now that Scroller is web-enabled, why not add some zip to that text file wth some HTML formatting? Now you can add different fonts, background images, photos, animated GIFs, even Flash animations.

Screenshots: Here's an example of what Scroller looks like when running, pointing at Digg:

System Requirements: Scroller runs on versions of Windows from 95 onwards, including 95, 98, NT and XP. Because it uses Internet Explorer to download and display web pages, for full functionality and reliability you should also have Internet Explorer 6 or later installed. If you have Internet Explorer 5 or earlier, Scroller will still work correctly with most web pages, but will either crash or scroll incorrectly with other web pages (this depends on whether the page uses standards-compliant HTML or relies on older compatibility modes). Users of older versions of Internet Explorer should therefore upgrade to version 6 or later to get the full benefits of Scroller 2.0.

Download: scroller.zip (179k)

To install Scroller, first click the link above and save the scroller.zip file somewhere on your PC (C:\TEMP is fine). Then extract the four distribution files into your Windows directory: this is usually C:\WINDOWS (try the excellent WinZip if you don't already have a ZIP extraction utility). Start your Display Properties dialog by right-clicking on an empty part of your desktop and selecting Properties, then select the Screen Saver tab. Finally, select Scroller from the drop-down list. That's it!

Registration: Scroller is distributed as shareware. This means that while you are welcome to test and evaluate the downloaded version of Scroller for as long as you want, you should pay for it if you decide you like it. On paying, you become a registered user, and you also get a special code that removes the limitations of the unregistered version.

Click the 'RegNow' logo below to register:

This lets you enter your order online and receive your registration code immediately! Registration costs just US$25. Click here to find out approximately how much this will cost in your local currency, courtesy of Yahoo's financial pages.

Version History:
15-Aug-2006: Scroller v2.0 - A major new version adding web page (and general HTML file) scrolling.
03-Jun-2006: Scroller v1.1 - This version increases Scroller's limits from reading only 512 lines of 512 characters each, to reading an unlimited number of lines of up to 4096 characters each. The layout algorithm is also optimised to use much less processor time when animating large files.
15-Sep-2004: Scroller v1.0 - Initial release.

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