Users of computer application should know that aquarium screensaver is a computer program which is designed for avoiding phophor or burn-in on the crt and computer monitors by having blank screen and filling the screen with movable images when the computer infact is not in use. One should have the information that the aquarium screensaver are basically used as entertaiment and security purposes. Befor e the introduction of lcd screens in the market, many of the computer screen are made up of cathode ray tubes which were used by consumers. In this way when the crt screen remained fouced with phosphor coating lying on the inner portion of the screen for longer period, certain changes started emerging as result dark shadow and ghost image on the screen started to appear. Seeing this one starts assuming that cathode ray television, oscilloscopes and many other devices having their usages in crt become more prone to phopshor burn in as seen in the case of plasma displays.
So aquarium screensaver programmes were introduced in the market for avoiding these bad effects through automatic changes in the screen when the user is not using the system. Such cases may appear in crts used in many public properties like atm and railway ticketing machines. Even in earlier machines same problems were there but iwth different scenario like it will show please insert your card, which is happening when the machine is already on. So avoid this risk burn-in is removed by chaning the position of the display contents after every few seconds or one can do this by knowing the number of differnt images which can changed continuously.
Aquarium screensaver taken as misnomer which helps in saving the screen of any eletrical equipments. One can alsosave the screen by turning off the monitor of these devices especially in case of computers. One should know that aquarium screensaver may consume sometime amount of cpu titme. Such cases can be seen in busy servers. The features of the aquarium screensaver such as divert and entertain is basically have the usage for promotional activities as is c ase found in making buzz for any kind of event based products like feature films.
