Think Blinky Lights

It's that time of year I usually fire up xsnow on my sparc console and stare at the swirling snow after drinking too much at the office holiday party. I don't have a sparc or office parties this year but xsnow is still around. I could run xsnow on OS X but I'd have to run X11 which I don't use for most things like Safari. There is Snow for OS X but these guys want $10 for it. I think they need to get some perspective as charging that much for a novelty utility that you use for one or two weeks a year on OS that only costs $120 is a bit sad in the shareware realm. If they changed santa into the grinch and the reindeer into the dog wearing antlers though I might reconsider.

Needing something festive I settled on a xmas lights which are lovely and inobtrusive with just the right amount of holiday flair. The author also has ThumbNailer which is a blazingly fast and simple app that will create thumbnails of a folder of images. And for the missing snow there is Snö which has both desktop snow and a snow screensaver. I may split the $10 the xsnow guys wanted and send each of these guys $5 for christmas. :)