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Activate a Screen Saver
1. Open System Preferences and then click the Desktop &
Screen Saver icon.
2. Click the Screen Saver button to reveal screen saver set-
tings, as shown in Figure 1-17.
3. Scroll through the list of screen savers and click a screen
saver to preview it in the window to the right.
To create a screen saver with photos from your iPhoto library,
choose Library in the Screen Savers list. Alternatively, scroll down
the Screen Savers list and click Choose Folder and then browse to a
folder containing pictures you want to use.
4. Use the Start Screen Saver slider to change when the
screen saver appears. If you choose 15, for example, the
screen saver appears only after the computer is inactive
for 15 minutes.
5. To configure a hot corner for activating your screen
saver, click the Hot Corners button.
6. Decide which corner you want as the hot corner and
then choose Start Screen Saver in that corner’s menu, as
shown in Figure 1-18.
7. Click OK to close the hot corner options. To test the hot
corner, move the mouse pointer all the way to the cor-
ner you selected. The screen saver begins.
If you don’t want to use a screen saver, move the Start Screen Saver
slider to Never.
Figure 1-17: OS X comes with some neat built-in screen savers.
Figure 1-18: Hot corners can be used to quickly activate a screen saver.
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