iTunes Artwork as a screen saver selection on your Mac is nothing new, unless you have OS X Lion. Now, if you have the new cat installed, you can play your music right from the screensaver. And this, ladies and gents, is pretty awesome.

It's so easy to do, too. Just go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver and select "iTunes Artwork" from the list on the left. 

You can test out how it looks by clicking the "Test" button. By clicking the "Options..." button, you can set how many rows of album covers appear, and how long (in seconds) you want your delay betweens flips.

You'll want to set how long your Mac sits idle before the screen saver engages by using the slider, naturally.

And here's another screensaver tip: Click on the "Hot Corners..." button and set one of the corners on your screen to "Start Screen Saver" and whenever you want to play music from this sweet screensaver, just mouse (or track) over the corner you designate. Boom! Instant rocking.

Once your screensaver is engaged, your screen will fill up with a seemingly random selection of album covers from your iTunes music library and every few seconds, one of the albums will flip over to display a different cover. Then, you can mouse over any one of the covers, and you will instantly see a play button; click it, and music from that album will start playing.

The music will continue to play without pause after you disengage the screen saver and go back to doing whatever it is you do on your Mac. We just wish that the screensaver implemented your iTunes playlists.

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