Thoughts about the pug dog screen cleaner
If you haven’t seen this cool pug cleaning your screen then click here. This cool Flash video embed inside a simple swf was floating all over the web for the past month or so.
The first think that came to mind was, lets turn this into a screensaver. Which introduced me to this great 100% freeware, swf to screensaver, Instantstorm. Only then I’ve realized that, it fits too perfectly as a screensaver to not already be a screensaver. indeed, after googleing I’ve found it here and a similar concept here (I wouldn’t install these, might contain ad-wares).
The most interesting thing bout this is, how something that had almost no existent became as viral as hell when it was re-distributed as a simple link to a swf file. No play button, no scrubber, and no nothing, follow the link and you get it filling the whole browser space and the experience starts immediately. Sometimes a link to a swf may be the best way of distribution.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
You can also find the Pug screencleaner SWF as well as a Cat screencleaner at:
http://www.beverlytoday.com/wow.html
February 17th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Everyone was asking if they could make the Pug. swf into a screensaver.
I used instantstorm and converted it.
You can download it at:
http://www.beverlytoday.com/wow.html
The screensaver has no ads, no virus, etc. Its clean!
It looks great since it cover your whole screen with the Pug, it looks like the Pug is inside your monitor!
March 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
http://www.mymonitorpets.com is way better.