I get it, but this should be a pay what you want with a free oprion, I don't have $4 to drop on a 30-days-of-the-year novelty
Fantastic! Even has snow. Wish it piled up thoughHoliday Lights is still alive and well. Not as many features as the original, but it has been updated to work on modern macOS. It's now 'MacLampsX'. I am rocking it as we speak (see screen shot).
I honestly thought that’s what it was until I read your comment. I was like, “Wait, it’s not?!”Anyone else read that as festivus?
If it will also do just solid colors, it could be used year round for a nostalgic gloomy NOC or college dorm room feeling.I'm in a festive and Christmas mood, but not this much!
Thanks for pointing that out! Super cool, and happy to help a fellow macrumors member!Worth mentioning that MacRumors forum member @Mithi made an adorbs desktop Christmas Tree app for MacOS a couple years ago and keeps improving and updating it each holiday since. And it's free!
I miss the era of CandyBar...Holiday Lights is still alive and well. Not as many features as the original, but it has been updated to work on modern macOS. It's now 'MacLampsX'. I am rocking it as we speak (see screen shot).
I like the lights to just be on top with a calming twinkle and a steady flow of light snow, of course. And these are incandescent-looking classic lights, not the cold and ugly LEDs that we are mostly subjected to today in both real life and apps. I reached out to the developer years ago wondering whatever happened to this app and he said he was thinking about resurrecting it, and he did!
I miss the good old days when a bit of whimsy was built into most apps and operating systems with theme and icon packs and novelty software such as this. Anyone remember Stick Software? Eyeballs still work on modern macOS! There were so many fun and goofy apps. Catz? Dogz?
The 90's and early 2000's will always be my favorite internet (wild wild west) and Mac era (even vintage PCs). What I would give for someone to update the entire After Dark Screensavers collection and re-release it. Berkley Systems was acquired and folded into a Sierra division after After Dark 4 was released, and their parent company killed most of their titles (including most of Sierra eventually). It was never even updated for WindowsXP and it never worked in OS X. There are a few modules out there that will run on modern versions of macOS, but it's just not the same, of course.
Nowadays GUIs are so cold, boring and stoic. Apple, the pioneers of beautiful icons completely destroyed them and now we are living with ugly tile icons, many are just glyphs slapped onto tiles, and to add insult to injury, we cannot change most of them. Remember Candy Bar? Why can't we have nice things anymore?
Anyway, I like that you can add lights onto the dock, so I will of course give Festivitas a go.
It is free, but I hope that those that like it, buy him a coffee or 3.Worth mentioning that MacRumors forum member @Mithi made an adorbs desktop Christmas Tree app for MacOS a couple years ago and keeps improving and updating it each holiday since. And it's free!
For a quick nostalgia fix, you can check them out here.Oh Flying Toasters... where ar' thy now?
'iSnow' is the closest thing to the classic Snow app of yore. It may even be an updated version of the original. It has lots of options, including snow buildup on both windows and the desktop. The only issue is that it doesn't play well with Stage Manager. It's currently available in the Mac AppStore.Fantastic! Even has snow. Wish it piled up though
Thanks! I just bought him several coffees. Such a great little app!Worth mentioning that MacRumors forum member @Mithi made an adorbs desktop Christmas Tree app for MacOS a couple years ago and keeps improving and updating it each holiday since. And it's free!
Completely agree with you.Holiday Lights is still alive and well. Not as many features as the original, but it has been updated to work on modern macOS. It's now 'MacLampsX'. I am rocking it as we speak (see screen shot).
I like the lights to just be on top with a calming twinkle and a steady flow of light snow, of course. And these are incandescent-looking classic lights, not the cold and ugly LEDs that we are mostly subjected to today in both real life and apps. I reached out to the developer years ago wondering whatever happened to this app and he said he was thinking about resurrecting it, and he did!
I miss the good old days when a bit of whimsy was built into most apps and operating systems with theme and icon packs and novelty software such as this. Anyone remember Stick Software? Eyeballs still work on modern macOS! There were so many fun and goofy apps. Catz? Dogz?
The 90's and early 2000's will always be my favorite internet (wild wild west) and Mac era (even vintage PCs). What I would give for someone to update the entire After Dark Screensavers collection and re-release it. Berkley Systems was acquired and folded into a Sierra division after After Dark 4 was released, and their parent company killed most of their titles (including most of Sierra eventually). It was never even updated for WindowsXP and it never worked in OS X. There are a few modules out there that will run on modern versions of macOS, but it's just not the same, of course.
Nowadays GUIs are so cold, boring and stoic. Apple, the pioneers of beautiful icons completely destroyed them and now we are living with ugly tile icons, many are just glyphs slapped onto tiles, and to add insult to injury, we cannot change most of them. Remember Candy Bar? Why can't we have nice things anymore?
Anyway, I like that you can add lights onto the dock, so I will of course give Festivitas a go.
Agree 100% with your post. Found this though: https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/index.shtml So you can have flying toasters and some of the Stick Software modules for a modern Mac!The 90's and early 2000's will always be my favorite internet (wild wild west) and Mac era (even vintage PCs). What I would give for someone to update the entire After Dark Screensavers collection and re-release it. Berkley Systems was acquired and folded into a Sierra division after After Dark 4 was released, and their parent company killed most of their titles (including most of Sierra eventually). It was never even updated for WindowsXP and it never worked in OS X. There are a few modules out there that will run on modern versions of macOS, but it's just not the same, of course.
Very confused to how they can charge for copyright fraud?Agree 100% with your post. Found this though: https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/index.shtml So you can have flying toasters and some of the Stick Software modules for a modern Mac!
They developed those modules or purchased the company that did, so they inherited the code, and modernized it work on current MacsVery confused to how they can charge for copyright fraud?
AfterDark is owned by Microsoft. But apparently the three modules sold by Infinisys is indeed an official release, so who knows?They developed those modules or purchased the company that did, so they inherited the code, and modernized it work on current Macs
It is an updated version of the original'iSnow' is the closest thing to the classic Snow app of yore. It may even be an updated version of the original. It has lots of options, including snow buildup on both windows and the desktop. The only issue is that it doesn't play well with Stage Manager. It's currently available in the Mac AppStore.
The Talking Moose!It makes me wonder what’s changed culturally with computing that these gimmick apps, which adults used, are not so common - I remember neko the cat following the mouse around on the PC, or people changing the mouse cursor… these things don’t happen / aren’t a thing now…. Why?