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Hello;
I have a family member (sister) who does web design and animation on her mac, but she has had a hard time finding a program or utility that would allow her to convert a mac screen saver to a windows screen saver.
She is familiar with the "iScreensaver" program, but that is very expensive, and she was hoping there might be a more basic mac utility to get the job done.
Does anyone here know of a reasonably priced mac program or utility that would allow conversion of a screen saver from mac to windows format? Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Damon
Ps.
She is on an eMac 800 chip machine, running Tiger.
Dual 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5

Thanks;
Think my sis was looking for a program that would not expire. But thanks.
Blessings,
Damon
"How you treat others, is how you treat yourself"

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