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Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1992 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand as "the world's first story-telling screen saver". The screensaver depicts a man, Johnny Castaway, stranded on a very small island with a single palm tree. It follows a story which is slowly revealed through time.
A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence the name). [ 1 ]
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds.
Rankin Publishers was founded in 1980 and from that year to 2014, or for 34 years, he wrote, produced and published a large range of Australian Wilderness pictorial calendars, dominating the field with a total of more than 150 different titles over the 34 years and selling up to 100,000 calendars, diaries and boxed cards over the Christmas ...
The free software and open-source Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System (such as Linux and FreeBSD) use XScreenSaver almost exclusively. [citation needed] On those systems, there are several packages: one for the screen-saving and locking framework, and two or more for the display modes, divided somewhat arbitrarily.
On YouTube for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and on YouTube TV, holding rewind (left on a gamepad thumbstick, left ← or J on a keyboard) for a few seconds while at the beginning of a video, will cause an animated image of a small dog to run across the video's progress bar. This easter egg is no longer available.
The video was shot in September 1990. Richard and the extras in the video were asked to wear winter clothes for the Christmas song, but the day's filming took place on a warm September day with blue sky and sunshine. [4] The video featured Richard and the extras singing together on top of the limestone arch of Durdle Door.
"Christmas on the Sea," also known as "Christmas by the Bay," is an old New England song (c. 1883) with music by George Frederick Root and lyrics by Hezekiah Butterworth. [1] Reportedly it was President Theodore Roosevelt 's favorite Christmas song. [ 2 ]