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12 Days of Holiday Downloads, All Wrapped Up
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 ...
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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 ...
As I mentioned today's Windows download post, we've been a little Christmas-centric around here. Unfortunately, though, quality of non-Christmas holiday downloads is one area where Mac users don't really have it better than Windows users. For the first night of Chanukah, though, I give you Hebcal, a little widget that takes you zip code, looks up the chart, and tells when to light the candles, for ...
We've been calling this 12 Days of holiday downloads, but up until now, we've focused exclusively on Christmas. I'm sure many of you are feeling left out, and I apologize. The truth is, though, that the holiday download options for other holidays just really aren't up to snuff. Why? I really can't say. If pressed, though, I'd say it has something to do with other religions not commercializing ...
Today's bit of Windows Christmas time-wasting is Christmas Tale from Alive Games. The objective here is to solve a bunch of puzzles that involve stacking gift boxes and blocks of ice to allow Santa to get to the tree. The trial comes with a handful of puzzles. If you get addicted, there's a full version with 20 or so levels. Previous 12 Days of holiday downloads for Windows: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, ...
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 ...
In the spirit of holiday peace, we have a combined post for midpoint of our 12 days of downloads. Today's features are two free cross platform games from Koingo Software. Pictured above is Super Frog, a holiday riff on and all-time favorite: Frogger. The object is to get the little green guy across the road without getting run down by cars. Once you get across, you have to make your way though the ...
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 ...
Today's bit of tasty Christmas goodness: InterAction Studios Chicken Invaders 3: Revenge of the Yolk (Christmas Edition). If you've never played Chicken invaders, think Galaga, but with chickens. The goal of this installment is to fly across the galaxy and save Earth from the chickens' evil weapon of mass destruction, the Yolkstar (pictured above). IA puts out a slick product and CI3 is no ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
