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About Offshoots
Animates the wallpaper of your desktop with growing trees. The growth follows some easy-to-hack parameters. The offshoots lazily follow your mouse cursor or random points. Also available as a screensaver.
- I really like my desktop wallpaper. Can I make the trees grow over it? Yes: you can set Offshoots to use you current wallpaper as the background. Or you can choose your favorite solid color. Or a mix of the two. The default option is to make it randomly choose among one of its predefined colors.
- What if I want it as a screensaver? The release contains a screensaver version of it too. Double click on it to install it. Or you can test the "ScreenSaver mode" in the standalone application.
- My desktop is always hidden. What if I want the trees more visible? You can choose the level of the window from the preferences. You can even set it as an always on top window, setting a low value (zero) for alpha: the Offshoots window always ignores your mouse clicks so you can interact with the other apps' windows as usual.
Animates the wallpaper of your desktop with growing trees. The growth follows some easy-to-hack parameters. The offshoots lazily follow your mouse cursor or random points. Also available as a screensaver.
- I really like my desktop wallpaper. Can I make the trees grow over it? Yes: you can set Offshoots to use you current wallpaper as the background. Or you can choose your favorite solid color. Or a mix of the two. The default option is to make it randomly choose among one of its predefined colors.
- What if I want it as a screensaver? The release contains a screensaver version of it too. Double click on it to install it. Or you can test the "ScreenSaver mode" in the standalone application.
- My desktop is always hidden. What if I want the trees more visible? You can choose the level of the window from the preferences. You can even set it as an always on top window, setting a low value (zero) for alpha: the Offshoots window always ignores your mouse clicks so you can interact with the other apps' windows as usual.
What's new in this version:
- only working on OS X 10.6 on Intel 32bit/64bit
- fixed screensaver for OS X 10.6 (64bit)
- fixed performance issues on OS X 10.6
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Additional Requirements:
- None
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Great concept 
- Version: 1.2, 11/20/2007 03:53AM PST
photopolis
I really like the app. Especially the growing of the trees towards the cursor makes for some great effects. On my MacBook Offshoots uses 75% of one CPU. But that's what you gotta pay for. Great, innovative, fun app.
Just a thought - Version: 1.1, 4/16/2007 03:44PM PST
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Ancient_Boii_Tribe
Can I use this application to guide my time machine through the temporal flux ?
yes sir 
- Version: 1.1, 4/16/2007 02:24PM PST
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Ancient_Boii_Tribe
The screen saver is really great. I would like to see more realistic branches and leaves with larger leaves. I would pay for that.
I opened the app and went to prefs and set it to stay on top of the windows. The screen went dark and it started to run as if it were a screen saver. I clicked on prefs again but they didn't open, so that left me no choice but to toss it.
I'll stay with the screen saver and keep an eye out for improvements.
I opened the app and went to prefs and set it to stay on top of the windows. The screen went dark and it started to run as if it were a screen saver. I clicked on prefs again but they didn't open, so that left me no choice but to toss it.
I'll stay with the screen saver and keep an eye out for improvements.
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- re: yes sir
