Tag: HOLIDAY

I went out looking for a nice, not too dumb holiday theme for my Firefox, call me old-fashioned, call me sentimental, but hey, I like a nice looking theme to go with the holiday cheer. Most normal people look for gifts, I look for themes for Firefox. Don't dis it, you know you do too. The Tinseltown Firefox theme is a great one, featuring light bulbs for back and forward, Rudolph as the refresh ...

So, you have a hard time convincing the kids that Santa is real? Windows Live Messenger has set up a way for your kids (with your help of course) to chat with "Santa" on Windows Live Messenger (you'll need to download the latest, but there is a link on the page). All you have to do is add Santa's messenger ID (northpole at live dot com) to your WLM contact list and then you can send messages to ...

Today's holiday downloads is Free New Year ScreenSaver from Download for Free. It's not the world's most sophisticated saver, but it has falling snow, and anyone who's been following this feature knows I'm a sucker for that. And it plays the Twelve Days of Christmas, which just seems appropriate. Previous 12 Days of holiday downloads for Windows: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, ...

Flickr is making our holidays a little cheerier with some bonuses for Pro and Free members alike. The biggest bonus is for Pro users, of course: Beginning this month all Pro account will have totally unlimited storage and bandwidth. While probably only a fraction of Pro users were bumping up against the old 2GB-per-month upload limit, who can argue with unlimited? Free users have cause to ...

Today's Time Waster has a lot going for it: Simple controls, cute bunny character, soothing music, addicting gameplay, and a pretty, wintry theme. Oh, and it's by Orisinal. The goal in Winterbells to get your little white bunny to jump as high as possible. After your initial jump, you control the bunny exclusively by moving the mouse. Each time he lands on a bell, he jumps higher and your score ...

NewsGator, the cross-platform gurus of all things RSS and blogging, is feeling a bit festive this holiday season, as they have announced an end-of-year sale on all their products. This forum post has the short 'n sweet details: through the end of December, using coupon code NGHoliday at checkout will score you $10 off any of their products. As most of them are sitting around the $30 price point, ...

Today's download is a countdown, um, tree called, amazingly enough, Christmas Countdown. Not much to say here, but at least you'll know how many days you have left to do that shopping. Or how many days you have before the holiday, if you get one. You'd be surprised how many people have been saved from strangling their bosses by just telling themselves "10 more days; i can keep my temper for 10 ...

Ooh, a holiday-themed Time Waster that doesn't suck! Gift Wrapped is a great Flash hair-puller from Nitrome. The premise is thin and actually doesn't sound that promising--you have to find your gifts among the pile of wrapped presents by shape alone, based on the picture shown in the box at the top. At the beginning the game is really easy and I was prepared for a letdown. However, it gets harder ...

All the innovations on the web and the advances in technology, and we still can't come up with non-crappy screensavers easily. Most sites you visit are filled with less-than-par graphics and dumb trial/spam/ad/crapware. This is where you come in. For those who don't know where to go, or what screensavers are decent, with no crapware installation or computer hijacking software tagging along, tell ...

Disclosure: AOL is this blog's parent company. What would you like for the holiday season? Maybe something you can download? How about a special gift of a free downloaded movie from AOL Video? This Saturday at 6:00 am Eastern Time, AOL will be offering users 30 titles to download. Sorry, rumor is that its one per person. But not limited to one per computer. Some of the movies will be holiday ...

Allen over at CenterNetworks has a 2.0ey idea for this holiday season. It's aimed at all Web 2.0 people, and is inspired by Secret Santa gift exchanges. Getting involved in it is pretty simple: Email Allen your name, website/blog, gender, likes and dislikes, and your address. He will pair people based on their locations, likes, and dislikes. The sender gets sent the information on the person they ...

Nevermind the other guy, what about what you want for the holidays? So you can't keep track of all those gifts you want? Sick of explaining the difference between an Intel Core Duo and and AMD 64 X2 to your loved ones? GiftHat gives you a place to store all your desires for the holidays and helps you justify being the greedy selfish little kid we all are inside, all the while maintaining the ...

On Ozzie, and Allchin, and Ballmer...Microsoft will be looking to rake it the dough this holiday season. Already there are 250 plus products that are Vista ready, and will be ready to ship for the holiday season from many third party vendors. Santa will have a lot of Vista-ready stuff to hand out this year. Many new hardware and software products will both be available for this season's holiday ...

World Firefox Day was on Saturday, July 15, and I missed it! Timed to coincide with the Mozilla Foundation's birthday, World Firefox Day is, of course, a day to celebrate the strides Firefox has made and, more importantly (or at least that's the impression the web site gives) to get more people to use it. To that end, if, between now and September 15, you get just one friend to download Firefox, ...