Talk about your overabundance of holiday spirit. It seems that Mac developers are creating more than a few great holiday apps this year. Here is a quick list of some of my favorites.

1. Sno - This has been around for a while but has nice falling flakes on your screen.
2. MacLampsX - One of my long time favorites as it adds customizable lights to the sides of your screen. Very festive.
3. Snjor - A new snowing app that has little snow orbs that look quite nice. It’s suppose to collect on windows too but doesn’t for me.

It’s almost Christmas and as it inches near, getting a nice Christmas background for your computer will help spice up your desktop a bit. If you need help finding them, checkout Flickr, Photobucket and other photo sharing sites.

Search terms should include

• Christmas Background
• Christmas Desktop
• Christmas Wallpaper
• Holiday Background
• Holiday Desktop
• Holiday Wallpaper

You can also interchange Christmas with Santa, snow, snowflake, snowman, reindeer, Christmas tree, Christmas lights or your favorite holiday item.

The hardest part is finding a wallpaper that meets your size requirements and/or weeding out those that actually have a desktop snapshot that includes all the files and menubar.

Need a good looking snowman for your desktop wallpaper?  Well I’ve got three just waiting to be downloaded and enjoyed.

Choose one or download them all. Great for the winter season.

With all this debate over Christmas vs Holiday, some of us think it’s gone a bit to far. And what better way to express that than through song.

Brad Paisley and the Kung Pao Buckaroos are serving up a holiday song where they are trying to sing completely non offensive and politically correct holiday songs. However, their luck isn’t so good. In fact, I think it’s the first Christmas song I’ve heard that bleeps out words, and it’s not swear words.

Here is a quick rundown:

• Can’t say Christmas, have to say Holiday.
• Can’t say white, have to say Caucasian.

In less than one week, Tinseltown has exceeded my expectations and has been getting rave reviews.

Mozilla reports that Tinseltown has gotten over 35,000 downloads in just 5 days. Checking out the comments left on the Mozilla page, there are no major issues (except for some flavors of Linux which I’m working on) and a very few minor issues. Here are a few comments:

“This is one of the very best firefox themes! It’s unique and it’s so smooth, I think I’ll be using it through June…” - Don

I’ve just released my latest Firefox theme called Tinseltown. It’s a Christmas theme to help decorate your desktop with a bit of holiday joy.

It’s hard to believe that last year my idea of a Christmas Firefox theme was to put a background image behind the toolbar. My theme knowledge was non-existent. Fast forward one year and Tinseltown is by far my most complete, and possibly best looking, theme that I’ve created.

It’s that time of year again, the holidays!! I did a quick browse in iTunes the other day and saw a new Muppets Christmas CD. A Red and Green Christmas was just released this year and includes music song sung by Rowlf, Sweedish Chef, Pepe, Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo, Rizzo, Animal and other Muppet characters.

It’s a must download for any Muppet fan.

Here it is Halloween time again. This year we bought kids carving kits and carved some great pumpkins. We choose not to get the adult carving kits as they are always way to hard. I’ve tried them in the past and it’s never any fun. The kids ones however worked out quite nicely. Not sure how kids could do them, but hey, it worked for us. See for yourself.

I uploaded HalloFF to Mozilla yesterday and they excepted it. Much to my surprise, people are liking it. I say surprise because it’s kinda hacked together and I guess there are some white on white issues that I hadn’t seen before. But the reviews are positive so far. Hopefully I can get the white on white fixed before Halloween and the progress bar is not going over well either.

Enjoy HalloFF - a Halloween Firefox Theme (for Firefox 1.5 only)!

Update: Click the link above for the most updated version. Mozilla won’t approve it because it won’t work with FF2 even though I submitted it a week or more before FF2 was released.

They’re back, Jack Skellington, Sally, Dr. Finklestein, Oogie Boogie, Zero and the whole Nightmare Before Christmas gang. This time, in digital 3D!

Disney is re-releasing the movie in select theaters across the country on October 20th. I haven’t found out where it’s playing in Minneapolis yet, but, if it is, I’ll be there!

If you haven’t seen the Nightmare Before Christmas it’s a claymation movie where Jack Skellington, the Halloween King, discovers Christmas and tries to take over Santa’s job. However, it’s a disaster.