12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 1: Mac

by Jay Savage Dec 1st 2006

Okay, so the 12 Days of Christmas don't technically start until after Chirstmas, but that wouldn't give you much time to enjoy your yearly dose of on-screen holiday cheer, now would it? So in order to get everyone in the spirit, we present a series of downloads that serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever, other than brightening up that dreary desktop.

First up is one of my all-time favorites: Infinity to the Power of Infinity's Snö. Snö is a OS X application and screensaver that makes a gentle snow fall over your desktop, bringing a little life to your otherwise static background. If you're really adventurous, you can even set it to run in a floating window. That's festive, but tends to make work nearly impossible. there's an included screensaver, too, but since ittpoi seems to have dropped of the face of the earth recently, it hasn't been updated for 10.4 (come to think of it, I'm not sure it was updated for 10.3). But hey, it's the "oldie" component that makes and "oldie but goody," right?

If you have some spare time, Snö is open source. So feel free to track down that Tiger bug in the screensaver and recompile it. Just let me know if you do.

Sn� Screencap

Tags: 12 days of holiday downloads, 12DaysOfHolidayDownloads, Christmas, Mac, OS X, OsX, screensaver, Snö, Snow

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

W. Graves said 6:33PM on 12-01-2006

This is really cool, the girlfriend loves it but it eats my macbook pro alive. on the basic settings it consumes about 45-60% of both proccessors, but with a little tweaking it drops to 30-40%, hot but bearable. rossetta sucks.

Daniel Schlaug said 9:45AM on 12-05-2006

A better alternative to this if you want snow that doesn't eat your comp alive is to find a Quartz Composition and use it as a desktop BG with Quartz Desktop. Search for Snow at http://www.quartzcompositions.com/

Andrew Fitzpatrick said 12:22PM on 12-16-2006

The best alternative is to use Backlight 2 (http://freshsqueeze.com/products/freeware/) and the LotsaSnow screensaver (http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/lotsablankers/lotsasnow.html) or any other screensaver you like.

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