Four free Christmas screen savers to get your Mac in the holiday spirit
// December 9th, 2009 // Apps, Mac OS
Filed under: Software, Freeware, Holidays
I love this time of year. I love the lights and the snow and the holiday cookies. I also love getting my Mac in the festive spirit. From widgets to desktop pictures to icons, there are countless ways to dress your Mac for Christmas. Here are four festive screen savers. Best of all, they’re free.Jubilee by Idle Time Software displays Christmas or Hannukah lights like you’d see them if you were rocketing through your neighborhood in a Ferrari. There are four color schemes, including a beautiful blue and white Hanukkah theme. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 + (including Snow Leopard) and the Flash plugin.
XMas Tree by Joe Hillman is an interesting 3D screen saver that decorates your desktop with textured ornaments. It’s strangely hypnotic as the screen rotates around a beautifully generated 3D tree while Christmas music plays in the background. Mac OS X 10.5 + (including Snow Leopard).
Silver Snow Clock is a simple little saver that shows an ornate pocket watch ticking the time away as the holidays pass up by. This gets a mention as one of my favorites because of the 3D snow that gently drizzles down the screen. Mac OS X 10.5 + (including Snow Leopard).
Last but not least is everyone’s favorite, Snowfall by Russel Warnebolt. We first reported on this almost three years ago, but it still deserves top marks.
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