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Ever wanted to control the weather? Wished for a calming spring rain, a cold winter snow, or a spectacular lightning storm? Now you can be your own deity and conjure up your Mac's weather at will! Best of all, you won't get cold, wet, or struck by a stray bolt. These storms are contained safely within your Macintosh screen!
FEATURES:Choose Rain or Snow Storms. Control the Intensity of your Storm. Actual Sounds of Rain, and Wind.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES: You may use Stormz for FREE, but if register for $5.00, you get these additional features:Add Moving Clouds to your Storm. Create a Spectacular Lightning Storm. Actual Thunder Sounds. Control the Size of your Raindrops or Snowflakes. Change Background Color. Import Background Picture. MP3 or AIFF Sound/Music Playback.
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ADDITIONAL FEATURES: You may use Stormz for FREE, but if register for $5.00, you get these additional features:
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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:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or greater
- Universal Binary
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Not ready for prime time 
- Version: 1.0, 4/15/2006 10:23PM PST
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zedediah
A nice enough idea, but... - Version: 1.0, 4/15/2006 11:24AM PST
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hlb9
it's just not realized very effectively. The rain looks rather cartoonish, and the sound effects—although quite nice—stutter occasionally during looping (which they really shouldn't on a 2 GHZ dual core intel system). The snow doesn't look too different from the rain (perhaps the ability to adjust the size of the flakes might help here), but the greatest weakness is that while snow effects are accompanied by the sound of strong winds, the flakes still come down vertically. This would be much more impressive if they flew across the screen at an angle that increased with the strength of the wind!
So, being free (with the essential features), this screensaver is certainly nice for the price, but some improvements might actually make it worth money.
So, being free (with the essential features), this screensaver is certainly nice for the price, but some improvements might actually make it worth money.
Check out 'Snowsaver' for a good example of how quartz graphics can be implemented cleanly and elegantly. Actually, check out any screensaver made by Futurismo Zugakousaku, who has a few savers listed here and several more on his site at www.zugakousaku.com. Screen savers don't have to be clunky-looking CPU hogs.
So, Developer, if you're reading this: I am a guy who regularly buys shareware, and I want to buy products like those you make, but as long as they're so badly designed, you will never make a sale from me.