[DrWoo]

Is there a photo screensaver for the Mac other than the built-in one? Basically we are replacing our PC that we have in our kitchen with a new IMac and one of the features of the PC Photo screensaver we like is the ability to use the arrow keys to move look at a previous picture. The Tiger screensaver doesn't do this or at least It's not obvious to me on how to enable this feature.

Thanks,
Dr.Woo!

[Randman]

The idea of a screensaver is to not use the keyboard.

You want an iPhoto slideshow set to full screen. That will give you key options.

[DrWoo]

Originally Posted by Randman

The idea of a screensaver is to not use the keyboard.

You want an iPhoto slideshow set to full screen. That will give you key options.

Actually iPhoto is not what I want and isn't really the right tool to solve the problem I'm looking to solve.

I'm aware that iphoto can do slideshows that I can navigate, but that requires me to launch that app and be engaged. What currently happens today is when our kitchen computer goes idle the screensaver kicks on displaying 5 years worth of digital photos of our family, friends, etc. We go about our daily lives being subjected to random photos. On occasion we see an old photo of one our children or a picture of a friend we haven't seen in a while. Before you know it the picture has switched to the next one in the cycle. So it's really convinent to be able just press the arrow key and go back a photo or two. If we wanted to cycle through a specific set of pictures then yes, Iphoto is the right tool. It's more of a convergence thing with having a computer in your kitchen. Our motivation isn't really all that relevant it's the fact that I'm going to lose critical (it's funny saying that) functionality that we have grown accustomed too switching from a PC to a Mac. Think of it as a digital picture frame when my computer goes idle.