If you are interested in the phases of the moon, the StarMessage screensaver can be a nice reminder for you.

It shows you the current moon phase inside a realistic presentation of the night sky and warns you about the upcoming full moon.

As the screensaver starts when you do not use your computer, this is an effortless way to stay in touch with the moon phases; you do not need to visit a website or have an internet connection to see how the moon will be tonight.

The screensaver also adds a romantic scent in your daily life as you can leave a series of romantic messages and the stars of the night sky will move to write your messages.

You can have a free trial version at
http://www.moonphasecalendar.org/

Installation and removal is a 1-minute easy task.

StarMessage will appear on Intel's AppUp.com platform.

You can get from below the Installer v4.28 for the AppUp version of the screensaver.
You need to have the AppUp.com platform installed on your comput

This update contains the new homepage of StarMessage and a layout improvement in the registration form.

This version increases the font size of the message written in the stars. As a result each letter written in the stars is composed by more stars.

The StarMessage screensaver allows you to send a message to a friend via email. When your friend receives it, he will see your message written in the stars. Both you and your friend need to have a working copy of the StarMessage screensaver. Although not necessary, it is recommended that your friend has a registered version to avoid any "please register" reminders.

To send a message via email, please go to:

-> Configuration screen of the starmessage screensaver
-> [May I have more options] button
-> [Messages] tab
Type your message and your bottom line and press the [Preview] button to see if your message is displayed as you wanted.
Then press the [Send] button.

This will open a new temporary folder and inside that folder you will see 2 files:
Receive Instructions.txt
NewMessage.StarMsg

1) The file named "Receive Instructions.txt" contains instructions for the user that will receive the email.
You must copy paste the text from this file inside the email that you are going to send to your friend.

2) The file named "NewMessage.StarMsg" contains the actual "star message" that you prepared.
You must attach this file to the email.

Now you can send the email you just created.

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When your friend receives this email he must:
1) install the StarMessage screensaver, if he does not already have it.
2) Open the attached "NewMessage.StarMsg" file and the import will be done automatically.
He will see your message written in the stars.

Very impressive, especially for romantic messages.

If you want, you can try to send this email to yourself first, to experience and understand better this procedure.

Another quick test you can do it to use ready star message that I prepared to demonstrate how the import is done.

You can download this file to see how it works.
Open this zip file and double click on the newmessage.starmsg file.

On the dialog that will popup, select the "open" option.
This will activate the StarMessage screensaver that will automatically import and display the message.

I am reminding you that you must have installed the StarMessage screensaver on your computer for that test to succeed.

Message written with the stars uses a better font and the width of the letters is now 1 star wide.This fix is for windows 7 and vista.