This is probably one of the coolest screen savers that a travel junkie may ever find. Star Alliance has a screensaver that actually plots on a map all of the Alliance’s flights as they are occuring in real time. The big drawback for us MAC users, is that is for windows only (.exe file). I know that there are ways to run Windows on a MAC, but I’m not smart enough to figure out that oxymoron. For us MAC users, there is a nice Timetable Widget that you can download.
StarAlliance.com is actually a very slick website. It has a great booking engine for building an Around The World Itinerary using all of its partners. You can even do lost baggage tracing directly from its website. I’ll stop stealing its thunder at this point and suggest you go and look for yourself! Its worth the click to be taken the website.
To be taken directly to the Screensaver download: CLICK HERE
The issue with the Star Alliance widget is that it does’t work for multi segment flights. I actually ran into this problem 3 or 4 years ago, went into the code an fixed it so that it will give you the option to choose the segment (The widget retrieves the file with all the proper information, but if there is more than one flight the parser won’t work). I don’t know the legality of publishing something like that, but it might be worth it to shoot * an email and see if they would want it.
I didn’t know about this, so thanks for the info
Your download link is broken though (duplicate http prefix)
Correct one
http://www.staralliance.com/en/services/tools-and-downloads/screensaver/
thanks for bringing it to my attention. I’ve fixed the bad link.
They have actually had this for at least the past 6 or so years.
I know, but a lot of people were not aware of it when I mentioned it in the past on travel forums/threads thus the quick mention.