The 12 days of freeware: Day 12
On the 12th day of freeware my true love sent to me …
Twelve drummers drumming … then a bass player laid down a nice beat, and I joined in with my blues guitar. Oh yeah. Blues Music. Merry Christmas to one and all.
And a special thanks to those many, many freeware developers out there who help make the Mac such a joy to use.
Posted Sunday, December 24, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 11
On the eleventh day of freeware my true love sent to me …
Eleven pipers piping, but what on earth kind of musical instrument is a pipe? We looked it up with MakingMusic and found all kinds of bizarre instruments: bagpipes, panpipes, a pipa. You get descriptions, pictures and a musical sampling.
Posted Sunday, December 24, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 10
On the 10th day of freeware my true love sent to me …
Ten lords, er, lemmings leaping … actually a whole bunch of them keep jumping and have to be saved in the game Leaping Lemmings
Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 9
On the ninth day of freeware my true love sent to me …
Nine ladies dancing … with the help of Stepmania.
“StepMania is a rhythm game for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It features 3D graphics, keyboard and dance pad support, and an editor for creating your own steps. ”
Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 8
On the eighth day of freeware my true love sent to me …
EightBall: Surprisingly this dockling still works. Click on it to get the answers to your questions.
Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 7
On the seventh day of freeware my true love sent to me …
Seven shiney widgets.
Christmas Lights: “Twinkling lights and holiday cheer.”
Christmas is Coming: “A cute little widget to help you keep track of how long you have to wait until Christmas.”
Christmas Countdown: “Christmas tree decorates itself as it gets closer to Christmas.”
Christmas Gift Guide: “Christmas Gift Ideas from Mojo London.”
DoctorWho Christmas Countdown: “A countdown to the Christmas 2006 episode of Doctor Who.”
Xmas Card Counter: “A widget that looks like a Christmas Card and counts down to Christmas day (GMT.)”
Santa’s Journal: “Santa’s Journal RSS headline reader and Christmas countdown.”
Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 6
On the sixth day of freeware may true love sent to me …
Six sets of spiffy icons.
Iconfactory has Happy Holidays, Winter Wonderland, Frosty the Snowman, and Snowflake. Fast Icon has iPod Christmas. IconDrawer has Winter Holiday.
Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 5
On the fifth day of freeware, my true love sent to me …
Pinch Ol’ Santa: “It is Christmas Eve and the time is nearing 9 o’ clock in the evening. There can only be seconds until Santa starts to deliver his parcels to the chimneys of your town. You look through your window, out of your room at the roofs of a town somewhere in Switzerland. As you admire the lamps and the scenery in general, you see Santa. And there he is, running across that roof on the left of your window. Looking at Santa you get an idea: Maybe if you pinch him now, he will lose a parcel or two which you then can take for yourself. You open the window and start to Pinch ol’ Santa.”
Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 4
On the fourth day of freeware my true love sent to me …
Four decorations for my Mac.
Christmas Tree Creator: “Use Tree Creator to create fun digital Christmas trees by adding drag-and-drop ornaments and lights. Apply the editing tools to get everything just the way you want it, then share your creations by printing greeting cards, posters, emailing friends, or viewing your trees as animated screen savers!”
Treetop Lights: “TreetopLights is an application that places a Christmas tree on the desktop and holiday lights on the menubar or screen edges. The desktop tree can be decorated with blinking or fading lights, an assortment of ornaments, a treetop star, and perhaps some snow. A small assortment of lights are available, and custom lights can be designed and added for both the tree and screen lights.”
Wreath in the Dock: It’s a wreath in, er, your dock. Lots of other useless stuff at this website.
MacLampsX: “MacLampsX is a Mac OS X native app that is similar in function to Holiday Lights for Mac OS 9. Right. So, since many of you might not have ever met Holiday Lights, the idea is simply to draw strings of lights around the sides of your display. It gives it a touch of holiday cheer. Decorating for the holiday is always a fun thing to do.”
Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 in 12-days
The 12 days of freeware: Day 3
On the third day of freeware, my true love sent to me …
Three screensavers … bursting with Christmas spirit.
IcoNVader: “IcoNVader is a funny screen saver which will unleash an invasion of icons on your Mac. They will bounce around, flip over and finally explode in a kind of soap bubble effect. It was initially released for Christmas and features an appropriate Christmas theme, but don’t be fooled for those icons came to invade our world!”
SnowSaver: “SnowSaver is a Cocoa OpenGL screensaver. It’s modeled on the pretty falling snowflakes animation that Apple have been running on an iMac in the window of the local Apple store. (Theirs is actually a QuickTime movie, and not available to customers. People have asked.)”
Big, Fat, Stinking Snowman: “A snowman, snow and an optional clock. Have a big, fat, stinking Christmas. Mac OS X 10.4 or higher required.”
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 in 12-days
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