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Holiday App Festivitas Adds Animated String Lights and Snow Effects to Apple Devices
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Totally bought it last year. Worth it! Trend antivirus(aka on work computer) use more battery than Festivities. And who cares? We still rock compared to the windoooze users, looking for power cord in the meeting room after a measly 2 hours meeting.
Funny your signature is literally about trolling. Hope you will be watching Troll 2 over the holidays!
Not sure if it works on modern devices because I can't test it but I always remember the classic Lotsasnow screensaver being a great thing to run in winter, especially as you can set the background to transparent and have it falling over your desktop.
This was a great hack on the Amiga, back in 1980's.
One might think it took 40 years to get the same on a mac, but I think there was an extension avilable for Macintsoh with system 7 where falling snow would slowly build up on any icons you had on the desktop. Or maybe it was system 9? Can't really tell.
But Amiga had bit-blitting in hardware and sprite collision detection so the code was short, efficient and used almost no CPU. O those days
One might think it took 40 years to get the same on a mac, but I think there was an extension avilable for Macintsoh with system 7 where falling snow would slowly build up on any icons you had on the desktop. Or maybe it was system 9? Can't really tell.
But Amiga had bit-blitting in hardware and sprite collision detection so the code was short, efficient and used almost no CPU. O those days
It's like modern day Twinkle Bulbs! I loved Twinkle Bulbs on my Windows 98 machine. That + Comet Cursor = Holiday cheer on my computer.
Then write your own and have it for free 🤷♂️
And, if you like it and want updates, paying is the way to keep indie developers going
No, I’m not going to watch it. And no I’m not trolling I’m super serious.
Well I might just do that. I might charge but it’ll be optional and all of profit will got to charity if I do so, because I’m not doing it for profit.
But it should start at 99 cents, NOT starting at 4 euros or $3.99. That’s too expensive especially for novelty app that you’ll only use for one month.
