Summer Farm

Not so long ago screensavers were mainly used to keep CRT monitors healthy by refreshing and cycling colors. Nowadays they’re only a means of visual enhancement while you’re away. Windows already comes with a collection, but you can enrich it with various more like Summer Farm.

The quick setup process deploys the screensaver before you realize. However, for everything to go as expected, your computer needs to be equipped with Adobe Flash Player. It automatically integrates with all existing screensavers, and the default settings panel shows up right after installation.

Regular screensaver options are available, such as the configuration of idle time before the screensaver can kick in, and whether or not to display the log-on screen on resume. However, it also comes with a variety of customization options of its own for a real personal feel.

You can start a preview right away to see what it’s all about. Bringing up its settings panel lets you browse through a couple of tabs to manage general behavior, as well as exist conditions. The latter section lets you quit on mouse and keyboard events, or only when you hit the ESC button on your keyboard.

Different sequences are used, each packed with a variety of animations and even audio feedback. There’s the possibility to have sequences kick in randomly, or in order. You can tweak Flash settings like size, quality of playback video, as well as background color. You’re also able to mute sound to prevent all farm animals from disturbing you when in effect.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Summer Farm is a neat way to keep the monitor busy and alive when you’re not using the PC but don’t want to shut it down. Animations are neat, with corresponding sound effects, and even though you can’t interact with elements it’s possible to leave it on even when moving the mouse or pressing keys.