TUAW Desktop of the week for 11/12/06

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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Rick

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!

November 14 2006 at 6:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin B.

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 :)

November 13 2006 at 9:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jack

Not very Mac-like is it - we can do better than this.

November 13 2006 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kev

Tack-a-rama!

November 13 2006 at 8:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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i would not be able to work with such a desktop, i guess it depends on how the guy uses his mac

November 13 2006 at 7:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve Dub

This has to be one of most hideous desktops I've ever seen!

November 13 2006 at 6:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan Biesemeyer

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.

November 12 2006 at 10:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

@ #17, he's running SnÃ¶ Desktop not the screensaver. And now to my point, I hope the developer of Atmosphere could licence the use of SnÃ¶ for rain and obviously snow effects. I will definetly have tp put some of these into effect on Black Friday.

November 12 2006 at 9:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

Okay, I'm lame enough to want to reproduce this. So how does he get the Snoâ„¢ screensaver to run while the desktop is visible? It goes to a black screen for me.

November 12 2006 at 9:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

igor

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/

November 12 2006 at 8:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply