A Selection of Screensavers and Windows "Themes" with a Scottish Flavour
Here are a number of places where you can download screensavers and Windows 'Plus' Themes plus some Mac equivalents. Most of them are free although one or two CD-Roms, obtainable through mail-order, have also been included.
BBC Scotland
Screensavers based on BBC Scotland TV productions, including River City, Still Game (using title frames showing fresh-faced youngsters ageing into the old men in the comedy programme), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rockface and Monarch of the Glen (with all your favourite Glenbogle characters.Beautiful Britain
Beautiful Britain screensavers are approximately 1Mb in size and can be customized or easily uninstalled if required. There are quite a number of screensavers available, but being a British site they are a mixture of Scotland and other parts of the UK.Carn Productions
This is a commercial site selling CD-ROMs on Scottish subjects including "Scotland Interactive" with over 700 quality images and a number of screen savers including "Castles of Scotland" and "Highland Games and Band" plus "Scenes of Scotland". The CD-ROMS can be ordered on-line.CeCe's Scottish Tartan Desktop Themes and Screensavers
Cece has created an amazing collection of 400 Clan, Family and District Tartan Desktop Themes for free download. There are clan badges, a map of Scotland and Celtic, Saints and Crosses Themes plus Celtic midi tunes to download as well. And as if that wasn't enough, there are screen savers based on illustrations from around Scotland. Clearly this site is a labor of love!Electric Scotland
A screensaver featuring their very own cartoon characters and a special panoramic picture of the Ochil hills in Scotland which makes a unique wallpaper for your desktop! They've also added a little Scottish midi music for you to enjoy.Ewan McGregor
Screensaver featuring images and music from the multi-talented Scottish actor Ewan McGregor.Highland Park Screensaver
Highland Park Wallpaper as well as a screensaver from the most northerly distillery in Scotland.Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
To celebrate the restoration of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, they have created a screensaver with a series of images reflecting the building and the collections. The screensaver file size is 2MB. You need to have Flash Player installed on your computer to install the screensaver, but you can download the software for free from Adobe's website. There is also a selection of Glasgow Museums wallpaper.Laurie Campbell Photography
A Windows Screensaver featuring over fifty natural history and landscape images by Laurie Campbell. Picyures include a White-tailed Sea Eagle, Scottish Wildcat, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Butterfly & Blue Damselfly, Honeysuckle & Common Sundew, Rum and Eigg from Ardnamurchan.Oban and Lorne Tourist Board
Not just a nice screensaver showing some of the beautiful sights around Oban. There is also a Microsoft Flight Simulator with a scenery add-on allowing you to fly around the hills and lochs of Argyll and explore the area before you come here for real. And to complete the picture, jigsaw puzzles, for use in the programme "Jigsaws Galore" which you can download from the site.Scotland Screensaver
Atlantic Networks, Inc has created a screensaver with 24 beautiful pictures from the remote Highland glens and rivers to castles and cities.Scottish Landscapes Screensaver
A simple screensaver showing 23 images of the Scottish Landscape. All the pictures were taken by the owner of the site and are a subset of the images shown on his Photographs section.St. Andrews - Kate Kennedy
The Kate Kennedy 2000 Screen Saver contains 28 hi-res photographs and optional audio descriptions (recorded live) of The Kate Kennedy 2000 Procession at St Andrews University. The announcer was local historian, author and actor David Joy.Visit Southern Scotland
You need to register with the site to be able to download their screensaver with many of the famous vistas of Southern Scotland. The Route Sections screensaver transports you deep into the sixteeen route sections that make up the Visit Southern Scotland site.Wildlife of Scotland
Screensavers of wildlife paintings by Martin Ridley. There are two versions of the wildlife screensavers available (8.1mb and 9.6mb), both featuring the paintings and sketches of birds and animals from his website. Each large image is preceeded by a detail from the painting, which appears in one of ten boxes on the screen. The boxes are filled until the sequence is complete.
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