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12 Days of Holiday Downloads, All Wrapped Up
by Jay Savage Dec 22nd 2006
By popular demand--okay, by demand--we've collected all 24 of our 12 Days of Holiday Downloads posts into one convenient package. And just because it is the season of giving, we've included pointers to some of the other seasonal software we've covered, too. Because really, three days before Christmas, what's better than one-stop shopping?I'll also give you my picks for the best of the bunch.
See the full list after the jump.
First up, for the Mac:Day 1 for the Mac was an oldie but goodie: Snö desktop snow.
On Day 2, we saw 2 (of course) different desktop Christmas Trees.
On Day 3 we continued decking the halls, or at least Dashboard, with the Festive Lights widget.
On Day 4 we began counting down the days in earnest with the Christmas Countdown widget, and on
Day 5 we switched from waiting for Santa to waiting for Dr. Who to save us from robot Santas with the Dr. Who Christmas episode countdown widget.
On Day 6 we tried to spread a liittle peace and joy with two cross-platform games: Super Frog and Christmas Crisis.
On Day 7 we decked the desktop with MacLampsX and felt some more of that cross-platform love with the Pinch 'Ol Santa game.
On Day 8 we peeked in on a giant straw goat with the Galvebrocken widget.
On Day 9 it was Christmas Sudoku.
On Day 10 we celebrated the first night of Chanukah with Hebcal.
On Day 11 we watched Santa drop down chimneys in A Very 3d Christmas Scrennsaver,
and on Day 12 we wrapped up with Frosted, a screensaver that uses classic Mac voices to wish you a happy holiday.
And now, on to Windows:On Day 1 we had a 3D Christmas screensaver with a snowman decorating his tree for the holidays.
Day 2 was a weird, but hopefully fun, screensaver that featured a strange mixture of religious and secular imagery...and a flying d20.
Day 3 featured Christmas Bound, a platformer where you play a tennis ball sent out by santa to recapture presents stolen by bugs.
On Day 4 we featured arguably the jewel of our windows lineup: the Chicken Invaders 3 Chistmas Edition, where you must fight your way back across the galaxy before the chickens can rebuild the Yolkstar and destroy the Solar System.
Day 5 was the icy Drunken Clock screensaver. Because what's more in the holiday spirit than tying one on and going for a walk in the snow?
Day 6 was our firs attempt at cross-platform harmony with the Cristmas Crisis and Super Frog games.
On Day 7 we kept that freaky cross-platform thing going, and threw Linux into the mix, too, with Pinch 'Ol Santa.
Day 8 was the Christmas Tale stacking puzzle game.
On Day 9 we finally featured a desktop Christmas Tree for Windows, and
on Day 10 we featured Chanukah and Kwanzaa screensavers.
Day 11 was the woodland scene Free New Year's ScreenSaver.
And finally on Day 12 we featured the ultimate obsession-feeder, Holiday Lights Designer 3.
In addition, over the last few weeks we've featured some other holiday-themed downloads:
The multi-OS platform game Mission in Snowdriftland, the bunny-jumping Winterbells, the Tinsletown theme for Firefox, a set of Google Desktop holiday widgets, and, of course Line Rider, the daredevil sledder.
So which are the pick of the litter?
Line Rider, of course, makes the top of the list, for sheer internet kitsch and hours of mindless fun.
the windows winner is pretty clear, too: nother else we've featured can really hold a candle to Chicken Invaders.
For the Mac, though, the choice is a little more difficult. In the end, though, I'm still a sucker for X-MasTree.
Marry Christmas!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Akela Talamasca said 3:03PM on 12-22-2006
What's going on with that scary Santa? He looks like at any moment, he'll break our of his weird, chitinous exterior, and unfurl giant insectoid wings and go carry off a small child, a la Mimic. I'm a-scairt.
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