Mac-O-Lantern: Add a Little Halloween to Your Desktop
Want to get into the Halloween Holiday spirit early? Don’t get out the orange spray paint and deviled eggs just yet! Add a little Halloween flair to your desktop with Mac-O-Lantern!
Mac-O-Lantern is a small application that adds an animated Jack-O-Lantern to your desktop. This digital pumpkin comes with an animated candle and a ton of customization options.
When you first open up Mac-O-Lantern, the default design is a simple face with triangle shaped eyes and nose. You can drag the pumpkin anywhere on your screen. The options allow you to blow out the candle, change how fast the candle flickers, display how many days till Halloween in the dock, change the layer behavior of the pumpkin, and change the pumpkin’s opacity and size.
What really makes Mac-O-Lantern cool is the ability to create your own carvings and faces. To do this, simply create 250 by 225 pixel graphic in your favorite image editor. Use a black pencil or brush on a transparent background to create your face. Save it as a PNG to Home > Library > Mac-O-Lantern Faces. Now go to the Faces tab in the Mac-O-Lantern preferences pane. Click on your new face and watch it light up with a spook-tacular glow.
Mac-O-Latern is free and open source and is available from John Schilling.
It seems John’s site is down… too many people want the Mac-O-Lantern. But it is on MacUpdate (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12959).