I know I know, it's a slight bit early for holiday-themed desktops, but there's enough cleverness going on here that I thought it warranted a TUAW Desktop of the Week award anyway. Flickr user rVEO has more than just a pretty wallpaper going on in Xmas Mac - you're witnessing the powers of Sno, MacLampsX and X-MasTree to create the ultimate in festive desktops. The snow, for example, is actually animated, inducing the digital version of that warm eggnog experience that only a snowy day at the end of the year can. Nice work rVEO, though if you leave this running for long enough, you're probably going to need an iShovel to get back to work.
In other news, the TUAW Desktops of the Week are going to get a bit more regular from here on out, so keep those submissions to our Flickr group coming, and be sure to check out our previous posts in the series and the original announcement for details on what it takes to make the cut.
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11-12-2006 @ 4:56PM
Justin said...
umm... is that a christmas twig in the middle?
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11-12-2006 @ 5:35PM
Stephen said...
I just did the same thing to my desktop yesterday, except I used treetop lighs instead fo maclampsx and x-mas tree. My mom got mad at me when she came over and saw it, though, because traditionally my family doesn't start clebrating christmas until the day after thanksgiving.
oh, and I even had quicksilver tell itunes to play every darn xmas cd that i had... too bad its still 88* every day in Sunny So. Cal, though....
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11-12-2006 @ 6:51PM
BLACKOUT said...
the only thing that i saw that made me happy was the p2p app on the dock.
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11-12-2006 @ 7:25PM
John said...
that is SOOOO ugly. what a stupid desktop. head over to the macthemes forums for some nice looking desktops
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11-12-2006 @ 7:38PM
MC said...
As a fellow lover of the Christmas season, I have a similar setup this time of the year - despite a clean simple look most of the time...
It's okay to to use a bunch of all-show utilities now and again :)
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11-12-2006 @ 8:02PM
igor said...
lol. this must one of the ugliest desktops i have ever seen.
all you need now i a Walnut Firefox theme!
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/122/previews/
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11-12-2006 @ 9:04PM
Matt said...
Okay, I'm lame enough to want to reproduce this. So how does he get the Sno™ screensaver to run while the desktop is visible? It goes to a black screen for me.
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11-12-2006 @ 9:19PM
James Whited said...
@ #17, he's running Snö Desktop not the screensaver. And now to my point, I hope the developer of Atmosphere could licence the use of Snö for rain and obviously snow effects. I will definetly have tp put some of these into effect on Black Friday.
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11-12-2006 @ 10:49PM
Ryan Biesemeyer said...
this monstrosity may deserve mention (as something hideous and attention grabbing) but by no means deserves a "desktop of the week" award; it is serious degrees of fugly.
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11-13-2006 @ 6:54AM
Steve Dub said...
This has to be one of most hideous desktops I've ever seen!
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11-13-2006 @ 7:43AM
Daniel Scocco said...
i would not be able to work with such a desktop, i guess it depends on how the guy uses his mac
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11-13-2006 @ 8:39AM
Kev said...
Tack-a-rama!
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11-13-2006 @ 1:28PM
Jason said...
Not very Mac-like is it - we can do better than this.
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11-13-2006 @ 9:47PM
Justin B. said...
Heh, I Yule-ified my 20" imac (intel) this weekend, but I was sad at how much of the software wasn't Universal yet. Desktop decorations are no fun running in rosetta eating up more than their share of CPU/mem, and non-converted screensavers just don't work.
NightLights (http://www.skyrocketsoftware.com/NightLights/) was the only Universal christmas-themed screensaver I found. It's neat with the arrangement set to "Scatter" and overlaid on christmas wallpaper using SaverLab :)
I am going to grab the source to Sno, Xmastree, and anything else i can find source for, and see about getting them to compile as universal binaries.
And for the record, I like the featured desktop. It's Festive :)
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11-14-2006 @ 6:47PM
Rick said...
I have the same setup but change the Christmas desktop pics every 5 mins. very festive. We need something to cheer us up these years! Merry Christmas!
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