Decorate your Mac: Sno

The holidays are coming, and it's winter up here in the northern hemisphere. That means lights, snow (for some of us) and all sorts of fun. But why should your Mac be left out of the gaiety? Answer: It shouldn't.

Today's tip for decorating your Mac is Snö. I first came across Snö about a year ago, and it's become a holiday staple for my iMac. Described as a "useless application" by its author (that's a bit harsh, I think), Snö produces a snowstorm on your active desktop (there's a screensaver included as well). Control how quickly the flakes spin as they fall, their opacity and shape, speed, size and so on. Note that the desktop app is pretty processor intensive, so you may want to stick with the screensaver. Snö is open source, free and requires Mac OS 10.1 or better.

Thanks to Appleology for reminding me of this!

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Eric

It's a nice app (and screen saver), but it's really processor-intensive. The pref pane has a slider control for processor use, but at any level that doesn't use ridiculous processor capacity (that's 75% on my 1.25 GHz mac mini), the snow is jerky, and not very nice. It's a great app with lots of customizable stuff, but it's just way too processor hungry.

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