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Visage is a System Preferences pane that allows you to easily and safely customize the appearance of your Mac. You can run screen savers as your desktop background, customize your login panel, personalize system alerts, and more! Visage keeps track of Apple's default settings for every customization, so you can easily switch back to the original settings at any time.
- Desktop Effects: Visage allows you to run screen savers in the background on your desktop while you work. Visage remembers your favorite desktop effects and can automatically rotate among them at a designated time interval. Visage lets you control the CPU usage of the effects and can even start desktop effects automatically at login.
- Login Background: Visage lets you use any jpeg image as the background image of your login screen. Visage can even select a random image from your collection so that you will see a different background every time you log out!
- Login Panel: Visage makes it easy to customize the login panel itself. You may use your own images in place of the Apple logo and 'Mac OS X' image. Visage maintains a collection of your favorite images so that you can quickly and easily change between them. You may also display a textual banner, which is useful for organizations that wish to display a message to all users prior to login.
- Personal Alerts: Visage lets you personalize your system alerts. You can have alerts such as the shut down confirmation say your name or any other phrase!
What's new in this version:
- Compatible with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
- Login background feature works in Leopard.
- Updated eSellerate libraries to fix registration problems in Leopard.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Universal Binary
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later; for other versions of Mac OS X, download the appropriate version of Visage at:
http://keakaj.com/visage.htm
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 Customize your login screen, personalize system alerts, and change the boot panel message |
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- Version: 2.4.2, 4/11/2008 02:01PM PST
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Had a little time on my hands, so I tested a few apps (xBack, Visage, DeskSaver, DesktopSaver, and Wallsaver). xBack and Visage are shareware, the others are freeware. In a nutshell, you get what you pay for. xBack and Visage are feature rich compared to the others. I wanted to like xBack, but with activity monitor opened to watch the amount of real memory usage and CPU, I was quite surprised. With xBack running, switch around between various screen savers. Doing this, the real memory jumped from around 20mb to more than 300mb, and as somone else stated, CPU usage was around 40% or more. Also, after switching screen savers a few times, some of them failed to load the second time around. It was enough to give me cause for concern. I am running an intel iMac with 10.5.2. Visage had none of these problems, plus it offers more features to customize your mac. It is a preference pain, not a stand alone app. One of its preferences allows you to choose 5 different levels of CPU usage. I used the lowest setting, switched around my various screen savers numerous times, and the real memory stayed around 20-30mb, with CPU usage dependent on the specific screen saver. A more complex saver used more CPU, but when you chose a simple one, the CPU usage came back down.
As for the freeware, they all worked to get your screen saver on your desktop, but that was basically it. No ability to change savers from the program, can't look at the individual savers options, no randomizing, etc. But they worked, and their screensaver engines used roughly the same amount of memory/CPU as Visage. My favorite of the free group was Wallsaver.
But if I get such a product, Visage would be my #1 choice.
As for the freeware, they all worked to get your screen saver on your desktop, but that was basically it. No ability to change savers from the program, can't look at the individual savers options, no randomizing, etc. But they worked, and their screensaver engines used roughly the same amount of memory/CPU as Visage. My favorite of the free group was Wallsaver.
But if I get such a product, Visage would be my #1 choice.
Doesn't work well in Leopard. - Version: 2.4.2, 11/27/2007 10:52PM PST
pstechs
The new version 2.4.2, while it operates in Leopard, it does not work well.
An example of this is the login background. You can choose a background
but it won't randomize it. (If you have more than one)
I'm going to wait until this problem is fixed before I purchase this.
An example of this is the login background. You can choose a background
but it won't randomize it. (If you have more than one)
I'm going to wait until this problem is fixed before I purchase this.
I thought it might be Flip4Mac and related to Quicktime as samples of the affected applications when they had this problem were looping deep inside the OS. It turns out Visage was the cause. Once I reset everything and ripped it out, the system became stable again.
I've asked for my money back for this. It was a waste.