I Love My Mopy Fish

My article mentioning Katie the alpha kitten attacking the fish swimming around my monitor when my screen saver kicked in certainly attracted the attention of Good Boot feline fanciers. Along with their requests for information on the screen saver, I received dozens of photos of family cats.

My current screen saver is Marine Aquarium 2 ($15 at www.serenescreen.com), but my all time favorite screen saver is Mopyfish (www.mopyfish.net) a free download.

Mopy was created in the early days of developing interactive Web advertising. However, when
Mopy became available to the public as a free screen saver, it became the first true Web download phenomenon.

Although Mopyfish, a free cyberpet, was released in October 1997 by Global Beach, it has been downloaded more than 10 million times by 98, Millennium, XP and Vista users.
Mopyfish is a screen saver that "requires" you to read its fish- keeping- manual. And I advise you to read it very carefully, because it explains the care Mopyfish requires. Requirements that if you do not adhere to will result in dire consequences. In fact will result in catastrophic consequences to your beloved Mopy.

Mopy is a realistic gold fish that after you give it a name requires you to feed him/her on a regular bases or you’ll discover him/her floating comatose at the top of your aquarium.

However if you feed Mopy faithfully you’ll accumulate points that’ll allow you add rocks, air bubbles and a thermostat to your aquarium. And if you religiously care for Mopy you’ll receive enough points to obtain aphrodisiac fish food which will make Mopy one extraordinarily happy goldfish.

I guarantee if nothing else Mopy will enchant your grandchildren.

Another worthwhile program to investigate is Pictomio (www.pictomio.com) a free program developed by former employees of Google with the goal of challenging Google’s Picasa .

It’s features include:
* Image and Video Management
* A Library to display and sort photos by the date taken, EXIF values (e.g. type of camera), category and album.
* An EXIF Editor
* A Workflow 3D folder. You can also display all your pictures in fast-forward.
* Virtual folders to arrange your pictures regardless of their location on the hard drive.
* A drag and drop Side Show creator.
* Liquid-Zoom
* GeoTagging which like Google allows you or a recipient to view the location on a map of where the picture was taken.

And much, much more.

It’s worth a download.

Here’s wishing you a Good Boot.