Changelog
New features and fixes on WhiteScreen.tv.
- Screensavers
100 screensavers
- Fourteen new scenes bring the collection to 100: Koi Pond, Gas Giant, Lighthouse, Slow Fireworks, Digital Rain, Dream Gradient and Woven Rosette.
- Also new: Total Eclipse, Tide Line, Dandelion Seeds, Midnight Skyline, Seigaiha Waves, Paper Cut Hills and Zen Garden.
- Each one has its own page, two sliders, a music pairing and text in all 19 languages.
- Forty more screensaver videos are on YouTube, 30 minutes each with music, including Koi Pond, Fireplace, Quiet Snowfall and Synthwave Sunset. That makes 68 videos.
- Screensavers
62 new screensavers, five new collections
- The collection grows from 24 scenes to 86. New collections: Sky & weather, Drifting things, Light & glow, Cozy and Retro & digital.
- A few to start with: Fireplace, Jellyfish Drift, Balloon Dawn, Candlelight, Mystify, Planet Rise and Ink in Water.
- Space, Nature, Flow & color and Geometry each gained new scenes too, from a comet and a kelp forest to liquid chrome and a breathing mandala.
- Every new scene has its own page, two sliders, a music pairing and text in all 19 languages.
- You can now rate each screensaver. The stars sit right under the player, and a scene has one score shared by every language.
- Languages
Every tool, in every language
- The prank screen collection, dead pixel test, white screen test, white image download and bright white screen are now available in all 19 languages. Until now they were in English and Indonesian only.
- Color screen pages in German, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese and Ukrainian now have full headings, such as "Weißer Bildschirm" where it used to say only "Weiß".
- Screen reader labels, the DVD screensaver's share button and corner counter, and the title of each About page now appear in your language instead of English.
- On phones, the prank, screensaver and tool tiles now sit two to a row with their names underneath. They used to stack one per row with no names.
- Screensavers
A page for every scene
- Each of the 24 screensavers now has its own page, in all 19 languages, with a description of the scene and what its sliders do. Try Event Horizon, Rain on Glass, or Lava Lamp.
- A scene's page always opens on that scene, and links to its video when there is one.
- Added 30-minute videos with music for 15 more screensavers, from Velvet Nebula to Stained Glass. Every video is listed on the Videos page.
- New
Videos for the big screen
- Opened a Videos section, with a page for each video, in all 19 languages.
- Added one-hour YouTube versions of all ten color screens, from white and black to gray, for TVs and streaming boxes that have no browser.
- Added 30-minute videos with music of three screensavers: Event Horizon, Northern Lights, and Lava Lamp.
- New
More scenes, with music
- Expanded the English screensaver collection from six to 24 scenes in four categories: Space, Nature, Flow & color, and Geometry. The 18 new effects include Event Horizon, Solar Corona, Misty Peaks, and Stained Glass.
- Added optional background music to the screensaver player. Each scene has its own looping soundtrack and a volume control.
- Added larger previews, scene descriptions, quick scene switching, and a pause control.
- Gave every page the same header and menu, moved About, Privacy, and Terms onto the same layout, and replaced the share buttons. Opened the blog and this changelog.
- Screensavers
Six live worlds for your screen
- Introduced the original fullscreen screensavers: Star Nest, Moonlit Sea, Open Ocean, Distant Galaxy, Color Melt, and Marble Drift.
- Added speed and color controls, adaptive quality, a stop timer, and saved settings.
- Usability
Your preview and settings, together
- Moved settings beside the preview on prank and tool pages, with a stacked layout on smaller screens and a consistent Start fullscreen button.
- Improvement
A tidier page, fresher updates
- Constrained desktop ad banners so they fit the page layout, and improved cache refresh behavior so returning visitors receive site updates more reliably.
- New tools
More ways to put your screen to work
- Added the Dead Pixel Test, White Screen Test, White Screen Image, and Bright White Screen tools to the English site.
- Introduced a prank collection with a random launcher, plus visitor ratings for tools.
- Effects
A more playful WhiteScreen
- Added Hacker Typer, Glitch Screen, and Virus Screen Prank, expanded the DVD screensaver controls, and introduced a gray screen.
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