 Holiday Decorations- 7 December 1999
Evan
You decorate your home for the holidays, so why not decorate your
Mac, too? No, I'm not suggesting you put Christmas lights all over
your computer, but instead use software to do it. First, Tiger Software has
a program called Holiday
Lights 5.0. It lets you put virtual Christmas lights (or
Menorahs, or Turkeys, or little happy faces) around your monitor. Also, it lets you create a screen saver that you can customize to
fit almost any holiday (like Hanukkah, Christmas, or my birthday!).
And, as an added bonus, it lets you pick a holiday-oriented song to
play in the background -- and it will display a text message. A quick tip for users of the unregistered version of Holiday
lights: This program will only let you use five of the songs that
comes with the program in the screen saver. However, you can work
around this by deleting all of the music you don't want to use. (You
can delete them in the "Music Files" folder.) This way you can play a
grayed-out song. Another nice program is called Snow
made by Dave Warker. I bet you
can guess what it does. Yep, it puts snow on your desktop. Also, it
has a rather large collection of music files you can play along with
the snow flakes. Lastly, no computer is completely decorated for the holiday
without desktop pictures. So, of course, there are plenty of desktop
pics on the net. The Holiday
Spot has all of the desktop pictures you'll need, for both
Christmas and Hanukkah, plus other holidays. Now, these tips might make your co-workers and family members
think you're a little too obsessed with the holidays or your Mac, but
at least you'll be ready for the holidays. 
- <this article available in a printer-friendly
version>
Recent Editorials by Evan
Recent Editorials- A road not taken (by
Apple), Scott Atkinson, Mac Musings, 4/11. "Unlike Macs,
there's nothing here to make you stop and admire the
craftsmanship."
- Macs get the job done, Todd H.
Cheong, My First Mac, 4/11. "My first Mac was an SE. It had 1 MB
of memory, no hard drive, and no printer."
- AOL@school, Evan, iMac Musings,
4/11. "AOL will be soon releasing a new version of their software
specifically for schools...."
- Team Mac Observer dealt
major setback, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 4/10. Defection costs
team several thousand work units, drops back to #19.
- Low End Mac at three, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 4/10. A look back at Low End Mac's first
three years.
- Apple Tech Support or pop
psychology?, David Schultz, Virtuality, 4/7.
- Team Mac Observer
expands, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 4/6. No sign of ET yet, but
new members have closed the gap between Team Mac Observer and Team
Lockergnome.
- Picking an older Power
Mac, Adam Robert Guha, Mac Daniel, 4/6. First generation Power
Macs can be quite a value.
- Bulldozing for a faster drive,
Paulo Rodrigues, Tangerine Fusion, 4/5. It takes some time, but
here's on inexpensive way to speed up your old hard drive.
- Web design, part 4: Site
graphics, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, 4/5. Choosing the
right image format and file size.
- New @ Low End Mac:
Receive email information on new links.
- go to the iMac channel
home
page or iMac
Musings
| The
iMac
Channel
home
page
iMac
Musings
The
iBook & PowerBook
Page
Archives:
5/98
6/98
7/98
8/98
9/98
10/98
11/98
12/98
1/99
2/99
3/99
4/99
5/99
6/99
7/99
8/99
9/99
10/99
11/99
12/99
1/00
2/00
3/00
Support
Low End Mac
and
The iMac Channel
Outpost.com
MacMall
AuctionMac
Amazon.com
MusicForce
The
Sharper Image
Sponsor
Us
|
