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12 Days of of holiday downloads, Day 7: Windows (+Mac, Linux, & BSD)

Pinch Ol' Santa screencap
Today's download for Windows is Pinch ol' Santa 2 from SwordLord. As an added bonus, the most recent version also runs on OS X and many flavors of Linux and BSD. the premise is pretty simple. Santa is running across the rooftops jumping down chimneys and delivering presents. If you pinch him, he'll jump up in surprise and drop a present that you can pick up and keep for yourself. Not the most sophisticated game in the world, but a great little time-waster that doesn't require much commitment.

Something to keep in mind: you move your pinching hand with the mouse/trackpad, so if you want to catch Santa, You may want to bump up your mouse tracking speed before you start.

Previous 12 Days of holiday downloads for Windows:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6

Filed under: Fun, Macintosh, Freeware

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 7: Mac

MacLampsX screencap
If you checked out our Day 2 download, X-MasTree, you may have already found your way to today's download; it's on John Schilling's recommended reading list. If you didn't check out X-MasTree or didn't poke around some of John's links on the X-Mas-Tree page, then you missed out on another great holiday lightshow: The Arctic Mac's MacLampsX. MacLampsX adds a string of configurable christmas lights to the border of your Mac's screen. The default is old-fashioned christmas bulbs, but you can also choose regular mini bulbs, the round lights you can see in my screencap, or snowflake lights, plus a some holly. Through in the christmas tree of your choice and maybe some snow, and your Mac's really beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Previous 12 Days of holidays downloads for OS X:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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