Version 1.1 for MAC OS X 10.3 or higher - 30/06/2009
UNIVERSAL BINARY VERSION
By
Robert Bennett

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It takes endless hours of work to produce nifty 3D screen savers at the high quality you have come to expect from Useless Creations, and all we ask in return is a very small fee! Compare it to other places, and we're sure you'll agree that you get far more bang for your buck right here! Without your support we wouldn't be able to keep bringing you screensaver after nifty screensaver, which includes our cool free offerings as well as our even cooler shareware stuff. So as long as you keep supporting our work, we'll keep working tirelessly to help you avoid doing any work by watching your screen for hours on end!

When you register the 3D Desktop Jigsaw Puzzle Screen Saver, you get:
The full, registered, unrestricted version of one of the niftiest screensavers on the planet!
A very cool way to display you're own digital photos!
No nag screens! Nothing pops up at the start, nothing pops up in the corners, nothing pops up at all. All you get is the action!
But more importantly, you'll help support Useless Creations, which means I'll be able to keep developing nifty screen savers for Mac OS X!

All this for just US$7.50! How can you resist?!

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HOW DO I DISPLAY MY OWN IMAGES?

It's easy! Put all the jpg, gif and png files you want to display in a folder somewhere on your Mac and remember where you put them.

Now go to the screensaver settings as explained above.

Once on the settings screen for 3D Jigsaw Puzzle Screensaver, set the Puzzle Image option to "Load Random Image", and then click the button next to "Path To Load Random Puzzle Images From".

A dialog box will open up that lets you select a folder. Find the folder with your images in and select it. Then click Open.

And that's it. If you have selected a folder with the correct type of images in it (jpg, gif or png) the screensaver will now display them. You can now set the picture delay and other options to whatever you like!

I usually don't listen to my friends or family when it comes to screensaver ideas, but don't tell them I said that. When a sentence starts with "what about a screensaver with..." I usually stick my fingers in my ears and start singing the Richmond Football Club song to drown out their silly ideas. I used to listen, but then I realised they were mostly silly, so I no longer bother. I'm not very nice these days...

Anyway, a while back now a friend of mine blurted out an idea so quickly that I didn't have time to stick my fingers in my ears. "What about a jigsaw puzzle?" he said, and when I thought about it, it was a pretty good idea indeed. That was all the details I got, and all that I needed to come up with something, and I think the result is really cool.

It took me a while to make all the 3D puzzle pieces, and then write a program that cut the picture up accordingly, and then told the pieces which other pieces they could connect to. I did it all in stages, and the result wasn't really what I had in mind at all. This result is so much better, that I'm glad it didn't work the way I expected.

So you can now have your desktop, or any other image, broken up into a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces fly around in 3D and seek out other pieces they can connect to, then they go off together seeking other pieces, and so on and so forth until the entire image is complete. Then it starts again.

I love it.

Enjoy!

v1.1 - 30th June, 2009 - Update
Updated screen grab code for better multi-display support.
Added option to set image quality.

v1.0.1 - 27th August, 2007 - Bugfix update
Made a few small changes and fixes, hopefully fixing the weird white screen problem some people have had!

v1.0 - 7th November, 2006 - Original Release
You desktop, or any other image, breaks up in 3D puzzle pieces which then slowly connect together to re-form the picture.