3 Pieces of ChristmasWare for your Mac

Well I guess It’s December, and so it’s ‘that’ time of year again. It’s the Christmas season, and it is starting to become hard to ignore the festive feeling – at least where I live. So now that it’s Christmas again, we wanted to take a bit of a Mac spin on things, and today we’ve got three Christmas apps for you to brighten up your desktop.

And seeing as they are really just toys, they are all basically free to download and use right now. So why don’t you grab an egg-nog and let’s get down to it.

MacLampsX – Freeware, “The Arctic Mac”.

So lets add some flashing Xmas lights to your desktop. These lights are highly customizable, you can change the order they go in, you can change how often they flash, and you can even replace them with your own set. Unusually, MacLampsX uses very little of that precious processing power, showing as only 0.5% on my MacBook, a very reasonable trade off for a bit of Christmas cheer! Version 2.0 is promised imminently, with the only announced feature being Multiple displays. A very worthwhile download to spruce up your desktop!

X-MasTree – Freeware, JSChilling.

You need to know how long it is until Christmas, and you can’t go through the season without a tree, so why not fix two problems at once, with X-MasTree. It is another customizable app, allowing you to have your tree in a variety of different colours, and well as a multitude of different coloured flashing or solid lights. It also has a little red box at the bottom which tells you how many days are left until a large gentleman in red comes down your chimney. A really nice app, however it does use a little more CPU power than MacLampsX, at about 2.5 – 3%.

Sn̦ РDonationware, Infinity-to-the-Power-of-Infinity.

If like me, and you live in the UK with the promise of a white Christmas every year, let it happen this year with Snö. This app gives you beautiful snow tumbling down your screen, either under or over your other apps. This is a processor hog though, but it really makes your screen look beautiful. it also comes with a screen saver so it can snow all day long!

And there you have it, a trinity of apps to make you feel a bit of Christmas spirit. We’d also like to take this opportunity to wish you our readers, Merry Christmas from the whole team here at MacApper. Have a good one!

What do you do to your Mac at Christmas? Have you got any favourite apps that come out but once a year?

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