Offshoots

Offshoots Publisher's Description:
offshoots lazily follow your mouse cursor. Also available as a screen saver.

I really like my desktop wallpaper. Can I make the trees grow over it? Yes: you can set Offshoots to use you current wallpaper as the background. Or you can choose your favorite solid color. Or a mix of the two. The default option is to make it randomly choose among one of its predefined colors.

What if I really like the current image and I want to save it? You can copy the image to the clipboard (Command-C or from the menu) and save it from Preview more...or from your editor of choice. You can also simply hold on the current image with Pause command.

Will it hog my CPU? It is very unlikely: the application should take a very reasonable portion of the CPU time. You can also change some parameters to further reduce the CPU load: for example you can change the frame rate. When you're headed for some heavy computation, you can also pause Offshoots from the menu or with Command-P.

What if I want it as a screensaver? (NEW) The release now contains a screensaver version of it too. Drop it in the "Library/Screen Savers" folder of your Home and choose it from the system preferences' panel.

My desktop is always hidden. What if I want the trees more visible? (NEW) You can choose the level of the window from the preferences. You can even set it as an always on top window, setting a low value (zero) for alpha: the Offshoots window always ignores your mouse clicks so you can interact with the other apps' windows as usual.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.1:

* new screen saver version
* some new parameters and customizable colors
* new setting to change the window's level
* new setting to follow a random point instead of the mouse