Going by the trends in the west, people are already decorating their houses with Christmas lights. So why not give your desktop some holiday love as well? Creepy as that sounds, here’s SnowFall, the snowy screensaver.

Snowfall is a beautiful 3D snowflakes screensaver that uses native quartz extreme to render those frames. The snowflakes apparently come from a work of a William Bentley, ‘the snowflake man’. It comes with a default red background but you can and should set a nice christmas-sy background to go with it. From what we’ve heard, even the Apple Stores are using this as their screensaver. In the screenshot I’ve used one of Vlad’s wallpapers as the background. 

If you’re looking for some nice backgrounds to go with the screensaver, check out Vlad Studio, or this collection of 25 winter wallpapers. Grab the qtz file, navigate to Mac HD » Library » Screen Savers, and dump it there. Then go to System Preferences and activate it. And despite the developer’s insistence that it is Tiger only, my Leopard installation begs to differ. Yes, I know that he’s only warning the Panther crowd.

In Software on 2 Dec, 2008| |