To the great distress of many people, Mac OS 9 broke something with respect to the beloved and quirky After Dark 4.0 screen saver. It has been reported that the After Dark engine is incompatible with Mac OS 9, but for whatever reason, it simply will not work on Mac OS 9 equipped Macs. Happily, there is an answer to that, and this blog post addresses it.
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There is a patched version of After Dark for OS 9 that can be downloaded from the Macintosh Garden site, at http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/after-dark-os-9. Someone going by the screen name of Daxeria produced this patched version, earning the acclaim and adulation of the entire Mac OS 9 using Macintosh community, I am sure. However, when you install it and restart, you may be a little disappointed. It has only the most basic of screen savers, After Dark's initial starry night screen saver. Where, oh where are the beloved flying toasters, bad dogs and the rest of the crazy and lovable characters from After Dark 4.0??
Take heart. I have recently installed After Dark onto Mac OS 9.1, flying toasters and all, and this post provides a step by step 'recipe' for repeating this feat.
First things first. To be successful, you will need to have a copy of After Dark 4.0, so lets start with this and get a copy. In my case, I had purchased a copy on eBay some time ago, and had it installed on a Mac OS 8.6 machine, so I was 'good to go'. If you do not already have After Dark 4.0, you will need to acquire a copy. You can do this either by buying it on eBay as I did, or downloading it from http://www.macintoshgarden.org at this URL http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/after-dark-40.
Once you have After Dark 4.0, to install a full After Dark for Mac OS 9.x, do the following:
1/ Download After Dark for Mac OS 9 from the above URL.
2/ Install this version of After Dark by dropping the After Dark 9 control panel into your Control Panels folder, and the After Dark Files folder also into your Control Panel folder.
3/ Restart your Mac and make sure that you can access and run the newly installed After Dark screen saver. As mentioned above, it will have only a few boring screen savers available, but those screen savers are not the objective of this step anyway.
The key objective of this step is that a Mac OS 9 compatible version of the After Dark engine has now been installed, and all of the necessary folder structures and support files are now in the right places.
4/ From the After Dark 4.0 that you either have previously installed, or have just acquired from the above URL, open the After Dark Files folder. From there, copy over the After Dark 4.0 folder's contents (this is where you will find your beloved flying toasters, and many, many more quirky and fun screen savers) to the same named folder in your Control Panels After Dark Files folder.
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5/ Repeat this procedure for the After Dark Images folder – copy over the contents of the After Dark 4.0 folder's After Dark Images folder to the same named folder in your Control Panel folder's After Dark Files.
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6/ Restart your Mac
Your After Dark 9 install should now provide access to all of the wild and wonderful screen savers you know and love from After Dark 4.0.
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7/ Enjoy!
When Apple introduced a system-wide Dark Mode in macOS Mojave, I was happy, because I'm one of those people who are prepared to squint and hurt their eyes just to have a cool-looking desktop.
But Dark Mode in Mojave has a glaring omission — there was no option to automatically turn it on and off, depending on time of day. Help came in the form of third-party apps, but honestly, this should've been an option from the get go.
In Catalina, the next major version of macOS, Apple rectified this by adding an Auto Dark Mode option.
As noticed by 9to5Mac, the option will be available in System Preferences — General, where you'll be able to choose your desktop appearance to be either Light, Dark, or Auto. Once you set it to auto, various design elements of your desktop will automatically get darker in the evening, and lighter in the morning.
For Auto Dark Mode to look even cooler you should have a Dynamic Desktop wallpaper — Apple's special wallpaper format, also introduced in Mojave, that changes with the time of day. With Catalina, Apple is bringing one all-new Dynamic Desktop that shows the Santa Catalina Island in California — but Catalina isn't coming out until fall. If you're impatient, though, some Redditors have already uploaded it (in several formats).
UPDATE: June 8, 2019, 9:48 a.m. CEST The original version of the article said that Dark Mode saves battery life, but that would only work on a laptop with an OLED screen, which none of the MacBooks currently have. As is, using darker interface colors will only save battery life on an iPhone, but not on any of the MacBooks.
