As we start a new school season, students will settle down and get back to their education.  The rest of us will gear up for the many challenges of the fall season.  Recently my mother-in-law sent me a picture of a little puppy sleeping and I made it my screen background.  When folks walk into my office they get a big kick out of it.  So, in keeping with trying to “lighten up” things this fall, I am suggesting some interesting screensavers.

First up is Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 3-D Screensaver 1.0.  I must confess that I’ve not seen the Lara Croft movies (there’s a new one out!)  Tattoos of Billy Bob Thorton don’t ring my chimes, but this screensaver might just be a keeper.  Download it and you can walk with Lara Croft from Tomb Raider through a random 3D maze in this free 3D screen saver like none you've ever seen before! As she walks through the maze she discovers pictures from the new movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life.
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Also take a look at GVB Panorama Screensaver.  Fresh out from Amsterdam's Public Transportation Department, this screensaver features a fictitious camera that turns 360 degrees on top of Central Station on the Damrak. Animated buses, streetcars, ships, and busy pedestrians line the station square. Well-known buildings include the Head Office of GVB, Saint Nicolaaskerk, and The Grant of Berlage. This screensaver includes gradual light reflections as day turns to night and hundreds of lights along the harbor become visible.
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Does anybody not like Winnie the Pooh?  Well if you do you might want to take a gander at Tigger and Friends 1.0.  This program will light up your screen with lovable and bouncy Tigger and his friends for your desktop. Complete with custom icons and cursors. Also with startup and shutdown screens and some really good tigger sounds and music.
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I have two ponds at my home and one at the church.  Each has a waterfall to capture your attention and soothe on hectic days.  Why, I even have a portable waterfall on my office desk!  My next move may be to get one on my computer screen and Rippling Water Screensaver Photo Edition 5.0 is only a few mouse clicks away!  This is a pretty cool screensaver.  Rippling Water screen saver  displays beautiful animated waterscapes: beautiful nature photos or 3d rendered unreal images with ripples, rendered in real time. This nice images can be set as a wallpaper in one mouse click or can be set automatically every time screen saver starts. So You will get a wallpaper randomizer with it. There are more then 50 images to download from the gallery and there is an option to show only your favorites images, which are changed every in seconds with nice morphing effects. Try this relaxing screen saver, and it will became your favorite one.  You can try it for free and if it is as relaxing as claimed.
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You might also give Stars 3.0 a try. It is a replacement for the starfield simulation screensaver included with windows. This screensaver has 10000 stars vs. 200 for windows version, and has planets. Stars makes use of your 3d graphics accelerator to improve the performance of the screensaver. 
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Even though it costs $10 to keep, 3D Dolphin Reef 3.0 is worth it because it features realistic 3D animated dolphins swim in deep blue rippling waters near colorful coral reefs. They spin and swim up, down and across the ocean floor near colorful corals and up and away into the vastness of the ocean. A wonderful gift for ocean lovers. Contains animated gif files rendered in 3D, video of real ocean water, and rendered stills of colorful corals. Has password protection. Sound is "space music" mp3 file. Sound can be muted in registered version. Registered version has many more and much larger dolphins. Also available as part of a set at a significant per screen saver discount. Has new and much more subtle demo splash screen. 
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You also can’t go wrong with 3D ocean Sunset 1.0.  It is a nifty screensaver that features realistic images and sounds. Watch and listen as seagulls fly past rippling ocean waves that are reflected against a setting sun. Contains 3D modeled animated gif images and mp3 sound files. Available as part of a set at a significant per screen saver discount with password protection.
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