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Decorate your Mac with blinking lights. It doesn't matter which holiday you're celebrating, there's a color combination for every need. NightLights comes with both "Mini", and "C7" type light bulbs. You can choose to display either or both. You can also choose the blink time, or choose to have your lights burn steady.
You may use NightLights for FREE, but if register for $5.00, you get three more bulb colors, "Desktop Mode", and "Text Message" options.
New in this version:
• Minor tweaks.
• Fixed the web links to resolve to [url=http://www.skyrocketsoftware.com]http://www.skyrocketsoftware.com[/url]
NightLights is $5.00 shareware
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
For more information, visit:
http://www.skyrocketsoftware.com/NightLights/index.html
XMas Lights 1.5 Cocoa Holiday Lights To Hang From The Menu Bar
Holiday lights that hang down from your menu bar... in the background so they won't be in the way. XMas Lights has been updated to version 1.5.1. This is a complete rewrite for this holiday season. Now allows users to choose to put lights above all windows or under all windows via the preferences panel.
Launch XMas Lights and the lights automatically appear underneath your menu bar. Open Preferences and choose whether you want the lights to be above all windows, or below all windows. You can also turn of the blinking and set the time interval for blinking. If you want to choose new lights, click the "Choose Lights" button and select from the list that pops down.
To create new lights, simply create a new image file and name them sequentially and in both On and Off flavors. As an example, lets say you want to create some new lights for the American Fourth of July. You would create new lights in Red off and on, blue off and on, and white off and on. You would then name them as such:
Red on = "JulyFourth1On.png"
Red off = "JulyFourth1Off.png"
White on = "JulyFourth2On.png"
White off = "JulyFourth2Off.png"
Blue on = "JulyFourth3On.png"
Blue off = "JulyFourth3Off.png"
You would then place these into ~/Library/Application Support/XMas Lights and the XMas Lights application would find them and list them as "JulyFourth" in the "Choose Lights" list.
Very small (just over 300k), very process friendly (won't slow you down) and very festive.
New in this version:
• Completely rewritten
• Fixes issues with lights either being too low or not visible for some users
• updated for Jaguar
System requirements:
• Mac OS X
XMas Lights is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.gooddoug.com/
Holiday Lights 5.2
Tiger Technologies' Holiday Lights is a little shareware application that strings rows of Christmas tree bulbs and/or other small decorations around the borders of your monitor, with festive music playing the background. It even includes a screen saver with gently falling snow that gradually builds up on the glowing lights, and other seasonal choices to put you in the festive spirit.
The colorful lights blink (or optionally just glow) on your desktop while you continue to work, so it's not just a screen saver. You can choose from a variety of different bulbs and decorations, and change them as suits your fancy by simply clicking and dragging bulbs in the Holiday Lights Bulb Factory dialog box. Holiday Lights also includes a large selection of Christmas and Hanukkah music (as well as other music files), but most of them are not accessible until the program is registered. You can also easily add any MIDI tune to the music selection.
The settings for the bulbs, music and screen saver are now all in one window, which is accessed by choosing "Settings" from the "Edit" menu.
The settings for the bulbs, music and screen saver are now all in one window, which is accessed by choosing "Settings" from the "Edit" menu.
Support for themes. Arrange your bulbs, music and screen saver settings the way you like them, then click "Save Theme" in the theme area of the Settings window. Your settings are saved as a theme for later use.
Better randomization of music: songs won't repeat until you've heard each of them.
The music now supports MP3 and AIFF files as well as MIDI songs. It supports aliases; you can put an alias to your folder of MP3 songs into the Holiday Lights Music folder and it will work. (Requires QuickTime 4.)
You can check out the Add-On Bulbs page for extra Mac and Windows bulbs. There are also offer free additional screen saver background pictures. You must be using Holiday Lights version 5.0 and later on the Mac.
System requirements:
• The Macintosh version requires a color Macintosh running System 7 or later, including Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 (It is not a native Mac OS X program.) . QuickTime is required for background music. Holiday Lights for Macintosh is an application program — not a system extension — so it can't cause extension conflicts.
Holiday Lights is $19.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.tigertech.com/hlights.html
Charles W. Moore
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