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12 days of holiday downloads, Day 12: Mac

Posted Dec 19th 2006 3:10PM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Macintosh, Shareware

For our 12th day of Mac downloads, I have a very merry Mac Christmas screensaver: Skyrocket Software's Frosted. Why is it so very merry Mac? Because it features a talking snowman and talking Santa that use the the Mac's built-in Text-to-Speech interface. And best of all for Mac geeks, they use two of the most traditional Mac voices: Bruce for the Snowman, Fred for Santa. Actually, the synthesized voices are a little creepy. Fun creepy, though, in a way that takes you right back to OS 9. The sprite-based animation will take you back, too. But isn't that what the holidays are all about, tradition?

All jokes aside, though, that Mac geek on your Christmas list (maybe your inner Mac geek?) will get a kick out of it.

The free version is fully functional and not even nagware. The $5.00 registration will turn on some sound options and let the snowman say your name.

Previous 12 Days of holidays downloads for OS X:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10, Day 11

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 8: Mac

Posted Dec 12th 2006 10:00AM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun

Today's holiday download is bocken, a widget from hockeywidgets that shows the live webcam feed from the Gävlebocken, a giant straw Christmas goat erected each year in the Swedish town of Gävle. As christmas traditions go, this one is so much cooler than a guy in a Santa suit sitting in a mall food court that I don't even have words for it.

As cool as a live feed of a straw goat is on its own, the widget is also a bit of internet public service. Apparently, Gävlebocken are quite frequently victims of arson; only about half of them have made it to Christmas without being burned. This year's goat has already out-lived last year's by a week. So if you happen to see someone trying to burn the goat, take a screencap, please, and email it to the Gävle PD.

Previous 12 Days of holidays downloads for OS X:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 5: Windows

Posted Dec 7th 2006 9:00AM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Windows, Commercial

Today's Windows holiday download is Cool-Screensavers' Drunken Clock screensaver. That may not sound very Christmas-like, but the default skin features a winter scene with a wobbling clock made from icicles. The app lives up to its name, and staring at it for any lenghth of time will give you that feeling of having put too much rum in your eggnog. And really, isn't rum-laced eggnog what the holidays are really all about?

The nagware version is free, full version is $14.99. There is also a 3D version which features a skin with a Christmas Tree, but it requires in OpenGL graphics card.

Previous 12 days of holiday downloads for Windows:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 3: Windows

Posted Dec 5th 2006 10:00AM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Freeware, Time-Wasters

Today's featured Windows holiday download: Christmas Bound from Blueskied Software. In this game, you play a tennis ball (yeah, I know, but physics games are in, right?) sent out by Santa to recaputre toys that have been stolen by nasty bugs. You bounce your way through levels trying to recapture presents without touching deadly skulls in what can best be described as a cross between Super Mario Brothers, Asteroids, and Pong. That may not sound promising, but Christmas bound strikes just the right note of nostalgia, cheese, and the surprising difficulty of controlling a tennis ball with the arrow and shift keys.

Previous 12 days of holiday downloads for Windows:
Day 1, Day 2,

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 3: Mac

Posted Dec 5th 2006 9:00AM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Macintosh, Freeware

Todays Mac holiday download is Festive Lights, a Dashboard widget from Interdimension Media. The widget does just about exactly what it's name implies: strings lights around your dashboard to brighten things up. The lights can be colored white, with a choice of blinking patterns. And yes, that's an X-MasTree in the background.

Previous 12 Days of holidays downloads for OS X:
Day 1, Day 2

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 2: Windows

Posted Dec 4th 2006 10:00AM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Windows, Commercial, Time-Wasters

Today, I present you with: the Crispy Christmas screensaver. I have no idea what's crispy about Christmas, but with a name like that, I just had to pass it along. Actually, there's a lot about this screensaver that I just don't get, like the kangaroos jumping out of the piper's horn and the thing that looks suspiciously like a d20 that flies around periodically. That's ok by me, though. It may be twisted, but it's my kind of twisted. I thought Santa jumping his sleigh over the "In Excelsis" scroll was a particularly nice touch.

Mac users feel left out? Don't. It seems has though FlashFast, the people behind the fun bit of insanity, have started putting out Mac content, too. the download bundle includes on OS X screensaver module, too. Free 7 day trial; $10 to keep it if you want.

Previous 12 days of holiday downloads for Windows:
Day 1

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 2: Mac

Posted Dec 4th 2006 9:00AM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Macintosh

Today's Mac Christmas download is two-for-one. The first is John Schilling's wonderful X-MasTree, a Christmas tree that sits in floats on your desktop or sits in your dock. It can be several sizes and the lights, garland, star and even tree color have a number of options. And if that isn't enough, John has information up on how to add custom ornaments. The real draw here, though, is the lights, which are extremely well done and can fade gently in and out, or blink and flash in that gaudy way only Christmas lights can.

Since X-MasTree began life as a tribute to the grandaddy (or is that grandma?) of all Mac Christmas trees, YourHead software's Christi's Tree, I think it's only fair to talk about them together, especially since John's X-MasTree page is the current repository for Christi's tree, too. Christi's Tree isn't as big on the lights as X-MasTree, but it's still shiny and comes with a classic Mac look and configurable garland.

Both programs can be configured as Christmas count-down clocks, just in case you've forgotten how long it is until the big day.

Previous 12 Days of holidays downloads for OS X:
Day 1

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 1: Windows

Posted Dec 1st 2006 4:00PM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Windows, Shareware, Time-Wasters

Well, the Mac users got their first dose of Christmas today and we wouldn't want the rest of you to feel left out, so here it is: your first Windows screensaver of the season. 3Planesoft's Christmas saver features a 3D snowman getting ready for the big day, complete with tree-trimming, confetti crackers, and steel drum carols on the old phonograph. Free to try, $10.95 to own.

12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 1: Mac

Posted Dec 1st 2006 3:00PM by Jay Savage
Filed under: Fun, Macintosh

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.

Snö Screencap

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