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Joe Mackenzie has created The HAL Project, a fantastic tribute to HAL 9000 the AI enhanced computer aboard the spaceship Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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This screensaver does not work with Mac OS X 10.6.

Did you know OS X Mountain Lion includes 44 ridiculously beautiful high resolution wallpapers? They’re hidden inside the four equally attractive new screen savers and feature some truly stunning scenery from National Geographic, the Hubble Space telescope, and some amazing photographers.

Each image is a whopping 3200×2000 resolution, here’s how to access these on your Mac:

From the OS X Finder, hit Command+Shift+G to summon Go To Folder and enter the following path exactly:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.Framework/Versions/A/Resources/Default Collections/

Copy the four well-labeled directories “1-National Geographic”, “2-Aerial”, “3-Cosmos”, “4-Nature Patterns” to the Desktop or elsewhere for easy access to the high res images
Set them as your wallpaper and enjoy

A few thumbnail previews are shown below, but you really need to check them out yourself in full resolution, they’re stunning.

National Geographic:
National Geographic wallpapers hidden in OS X

Cosmos:
hidden cosmos wallpapers

Aerial:
hidden aerial wallpapers

Nature Patterns:
hidden nature patterns wallpapers

You will find a handful that are also in the default OS X Mountain Lion wallpaper collection, but the vast majority are totally new

Abstract
Abstract wallpaper

Death Valley
Death valley wallpaper

Desert
Desert sand dunes wallpaper

Foxtail barley
Foxtail barley wallpaper

Mountain range
Mountain range wallpaper

Rolling waves
Rolling waves wallpaper

Foggy forest
Foggy forest wallpaper

Underwater
Underwater wallpaper

Mavericks tucks away 43 high-res images which it offers as screensaver options, and you can use as your wallpaper if you know where to look.

The huge wave image used as the default wallpaper for OS X Mavericks is certainly striking, but if you don’t harbor any particular affinity toward surfing, or the ocean in general, you have other options. OS X has some options readily available on the Desktop wallpaper screen in System Preferences, but you’ll notice there are different images available on its Screen Saver page, where it lists four Default Collections: National Geographic, aerial, cosmos, and nature patterns.

Count the images and you’ll see there are 43 images across those four screensaver collections. You can use these images as your desktop image by locating them and dragging them one at a time into the Desktop page in System Preferences.

To track them down, hit Command-Shift-G from your desktop to open the Finder’s Go to Folder window. Next, enter this path:

/Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections/

Browse through the folders and then drag an image into the Desktop window of System Preferences.

Below you’ll find wallpapers at retina Mac, iPad, and iPhone resolution. Enjoy!

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Animals

Art

Games

Landscapes

Movies

Music

Nature

Random

Space

Vehicles

Oh, and here is the zip file containing all the images in this roundup.

ToDo List

ToDo List
This screensaver has all the features of a task list, in addition to displaying your tasks on your monitor. You can access your to-do list like any other application in order to update it. The full version of this screensaver is available for $9.95.

SaveHollywood

SaveHollywood
Play a QuickTime Movie as your screensaver. If you’d rather run videos in succession, you can select an entire directory.

Status Screen Saver

Status Screen Saver
One of the problems with screensavers is that if you’re expecting an email, you have to keep waking up your computer. With this screensaver, you can display the statuses of several different programs, such as email or instant messengers.

Dashsaver

Dashsaver
View your dashboard in your screensaver, displaying the weather or any RSS feeds you may want to get a quick look at.

Transparent

Transparent
Sometimes it’s important to use a screensaver that allows you to still see what’s actually happening on your desktop. This screensaver does just that. The full version is $15.

MoodSaver

MoodSaver
You can tell just how hard your computer is working by the brightness and movement of the colors in this screensaver.

ShuffleSaver

ShuffleSaver
Watch photos from Flickr cross your screen. You can even mark photos as favorite or skip pictures using hot keys.

BigSpy

BigSpy
BigSpy
Display the latest activity on Digg as your screensaver. You’ll see new headlines, and as they get more diggs, they’ll get bigger.

Stack

Stack
Stack
With this screensaver, you can see a visualization of the number of votes new headlines are receiving on Digg.

Swarm

Swarm
Swarm
Another visualization of Digg votes, this screensaver shows the progression of how specific Digg users are voting up different stories.

TweetSavr

TweetSavr
Show the tweets of any particular user as your screensaver.

Twistori

A colorful display of Twitter posts, this screensaver displays posts that include specific verbs, such as ‘love’ or ‘hate.’

Twistori

LibraryThing

LibraryThing
For LibraryThing users, you can display the covers of the books in your collection as your screensaver.

Sprint, This is Now

Sprint, This is Now
This screensaver developed by Sprint allows you to pull in all of your social media presence and see updates to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more while your screensaver is active.

Word Clock

Word Clock
This screensaver shows a creative clock while running, by highlighting the words that make up the current time.

Dropclock

Dropclock
Watch the numbers that make up the current time slowly drop into water for a clock with an unusual effect.

Polar Clock

Polar Clock
The time progresses on this screensaver, with each part of the exact time — from seconds to month — circling around the center of the screen, changing colors in the process.

Time Zones

Time Zones
See the time in randomly selected time zones all over the world.

Mars 3D Space Survey

Mars 3D Space Survey
Explore Mars as your screensaver runs — you can see a variety of views of the planet, as well as its moons, Phobos and Deimos.

Impressionists Art Slide Show

Impressionists Art Slide Show
Familiarize yourself with famous Impressionist paintings with this screensaver. The full version is available for $9.95.

Great Art Through the Ages

Great Art Through the Ages
View a gallery of great art on your computer monitor while this screensaver runs. The full version is available for $9.95.

Structure

Structure
Render files from the Protein Data Bank as your screensaver and see proteins and macromolecules develop on your screen.

Cavendish Screensaver

Cavendish Screensaver
Create your own universe with this screensaver and watch the evolution of the system due to gravity.

Italian Vocabulary Screensaver

Italian Vocabulary
Need to improve your Italian language skills? This screensaver can help you with your vocabulary.

Spanish Flash Cards

Spanish Flash Cards
Learn Spanish with these flash cards that double as a screensaver.

Album Art for the Rest of Us

Album Art For the Rest of Us
Randomly display album art from your iTunes with this screensaver, which allows you to see what music you have available in a new way.

MacHouse Quotes

MacHouse Quotes
This screensaver offers inspirational quotes from famous folks.

60gilvy

60gilvy
60gilvy
If you have an interest in marketing, this screensaver shares advice from marketing legend David Ogilvy.

AlphaBaby

AlphaBaby
If you have small children, this screensaver provides a way for them to type on your keyboard without causing any problems.

RSS Visualizer

RSS Visualizer
Even though it comes with Mac OS X, this screensaver is one of the most informative out there. It displays headlines from any RSS feed you plug in.

MovingPhotos 3D

MovingPhotos 3D
This saver arranges your photos to form 3D constructions, such as a city block with buildings.

Analogy

Analogy Screensaver
Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a hybrid format.

Time Machine Screensaver

Time Machine
A time machine-like animation that loads as a screensaver. Choose between normal or RSS version.

HAL 9000

HAL Screensaver
John Gruber: Gorgeous homage to HAL by Joe Mackenzie. I haven’t used a screensaver on my computer in at least 10 years, but I’m running one now.

Euphoria

Euphoria Screensaver
A port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh, full of abstract colors and shapes.

Econ

Econ Screensaver
The screensaver that uses your icons, flying through them in high quality icon bliss. It automatically gathers them from your /Applications folder.

Fenêtres Volantes

Fenêtres Volantes Screensaver
Taking your open applications and catapulting them around the screen in a really great effect.

Plasma Tunnel

Plasma Tunnel Screensaver
A swirling vortex of screensaver delight.

Red Baron

Red Baron Screensaver
Fly behind a classic bi-plane as it soars across idyllic scenery.

Hyperspace

HyperSpace Screensaver
Hyperspace is a screen saver that sends its users on a virtual trip through a wormhole, just like the ones in some sci-fi TV shows and movies.

Digg Stack

Digg Stack
Digg Stack shows diggs occurring in real time on up to 100 stories at once. Diggers fall from above and stack up on popular stories. Brightly colored stories have more Diggs.

Shuffle Saver

ShuffleSaver
Loads your favorite photos from flickr.com or iPhoto and shuffles them. You get new photos everytime the screensaver starts.

Alien Sun Clock

Alien Sun Clock Screensaver
Alien Sun Clock Screensaver lets you look at the usual things in a surprisingly new way with a warm, radiant clock.

Solar Winds

Solar Winds
This is a very mesmerizing particle effects saver. Tweak the settings a little and you’ll find that you can achieve an amazing number of different patterns.

Lotsa Water

LotsaWater Screensaver
This screensaver renders a fairly realistic water effect over your desktop, showing it distorted through the wavy surface of the water as raindrops fall on the surface.

Digg Arc

Digg Arc Screensaver
Digg Arc displays stories, topics, and containers wrapped around a sphere. Arcs trail people as they Digg stories across topics. Stories with more Diggs make thicker arcs.

AlphaBaby

AlphaBaby Screensaver
A great screensaver for kids, displaying letters, numbers, shapes and sounds as you interact with the mouse and keyboard.

National Geographic

National Geographic Screensaver
National Geographic, the standard bearer for quality images delivers with this screensaver. A spectacular slideshow of pictures from around the world.

Artecnica Clock

Artecnica Clock
A funky timepiece with a variety of different number styles and graphics.

Dashsaver

Dashsaver
When the computer is inactive after the specified time as set in the Screen Saver preference pane, the dashboard is displayed and the users’ desktop is hidden

Flux

Flux Screensaver
Dancing, pulsing, colorful and beautiful.

Holding Pattern Coach Class

Holding Pattern Coach Class
Free version with 15 aerial views – a great way to try out screen saver cinema.

SoundStream

SoundStream Screensaver
Soundstream is a Mac OS X screensaver that responds to sound input. Colorful Flurry-like streams pulse to the beat of music or bloom with ambient noise.

ScriptSaver

ScriptSaver
ScriptSaver is a Mac OS X screensaver which runs AppleScripts when it activates and deactivates. Great for performing maintenance, or updating iChat status when the computer is idle.

Save Hollywood

Save Hollywood
This screensaver allows you to display QuickTime Movies as a screensaver. Useful for taking a little time out.

Fireflies

Fireflies Screensaver
Possible a little more dramatic than a real-life firefly, but still cool.

Matrix Reloaded

Matrix Reloaded Screensaver
No one can claim that they don’t feel a little bit cool with a Matrix screensaver. Go on – try it out…

Skyrocket

SkyRocket Screensaver
A gorgeous firework screensaver, rending in 3D with realistic graphics and sound.

Under The Sea 3D

Imax Under The Sea
A delightful, high quality, look at life under the sea. Typical IMAX delight!

LotsaEscher

Lotsa Escher Screesaver
This is a screensaver which displays an animated version of M.C. Escher’s Print Gallery drawing. Great for art fans!

Snowfall

Snowflakes Screensaver
Snowfall Screensaver
We’re still a long way off Christmas, but it’s worth downloading to have handy when December comes around…

Surveillance Saver

Surveillance Saver
SurveillanceSaver is a simple screen saver that displays more than 1000 surveillance cameras worldwide.

Helios

Helios Screensaver
Helios is a particle attraction/repulsion screen saver where “blobs” emit and receive multi-colored particles. It’s difficult to describe, but as some have said about the screen saver, it’s pretty insane.

Presstube

Presstube Screensaver
Fast paced and unusual, with a random array of sketches and drawings being quickly drafted on your screen.