I’ve no formal update plans for Tinseltown, so I’m asking you. What would you like to see updated?

I’ve been running Tinseltown for a few days and there are no major issues that I see. But you may be seeing something that I’m overlooking. So please do share.

Ohh and for those running Firefox 3 beta, Tinseltown probably won’t be available this year. Sorry, but Firefox 3 is just not far enough along for me to start theming it. I may try it out and see how it works though if there is interest.

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.
4. Snowy - I’m still figuring out this one. It creates basic snowflakes that fall but you also get little snowmen that appear on the screen and penguins that walk around. There are also a few trees and snow on the bottom of your screen.
5. Holiday Lights - This little app puts holiday lights around individual windows. Granted, they need to be Cocoa (I think that’s right) apps like Safari. It won’t work around Firefox windows.
6. Mac Lights - This is another app to put Christmas lights on your desktop. The lights are quite big but do look pretty. Not as many options as MacLampsX though.
7. SantaSnaps - This is a clone of PhotoBooth but adds fun Christmas elements.
8. MacGiftWrap - Nicely wraps up your desktop folders with ribbon and bows.

Lets not forget the Present Growl style and Tinseltown, the Christmas Firefox theme too.

There are other apps over at the Holiday Cocoa Duel that you can grab and check out.

If you are looking for more of ‘regular’ app, MacSanta is giving out. 20% off some of your favorite applications. With deals like that, it’s hard to say no.

What have I missed? Plenty I’m sure. Leave your comments below or post your favorites on your blog and link back here for reference. Lets see how many great holiday apps we can come up with.

As noted earlier, all themes should now be Linux compatible.

MidnightFox also got the status bar code updated so hopefully that ugly grey one is gone.

iPox got the most updates with a new throbber and a few theme fixes throughout.

For the most part, just little tweaks, nothing major.

All updates are available via Mozilla’s Add-On site.

A huge thanks goes out to all my help including ehume, terry(Denver) (Teruel de Campo MD), Albireo and Richard Hemmer! Without you all I could never have figured it out.

All theme updates should be available on Mozilla’s Add-On site in the next day or two.

Basically, just fill in a few fields, hit submit and I’ll be notified via email. It’s that easy. It’s even got a developer comments area where I can respond to any issues.

Thanks to ZoHo for creating an easy to use, and very powerful, online application for collecting and organizing data.

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

“A theme like this is another reason to wish that Christmas was all year round. The “warm fuzzy feeling” makes me want to give a gift to a stranger in need this Christmas. Thx” - D-xtreme

“This is so perfect for the season, it’s great! I love everything about it :)” - Judy M

“I was a bit hesitant downloading this, but it was worth it. The quality is amazing. Shading, color, and originality are all here. All of the buttons are amazingly done. This is definitely a must-download.” -Zixqu

Tinseltown has also been posted to Lifehacker.com which is a very popular computer & productivity blog. The exposure from Lifehacker has rippled across the internet much faster than most other areas of exposure. Checking Technorati, I’m seeing more and more Tinsseltown posts. It’s fun to read the posts and get a feel for what others think of the theme.

I want to thank everyone for taking the time to checkout Tinseltown. Thanks for the positive feedback and for making Tinseltown a hit for the holiday season.

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.

I’m very proud of some of the features and imagery in Tinseltown. It all started with the want to create a holiday theme and all fell into place in a very short time. WatiWorks was nice enough to let me use some of their free icons for the theme too and they make it look even better!

I’m very pleased to be releasing Tinseltown and I hope everyone enjoys it half as much as I do.

More information on Tinseltown.