I made a Christmas Tree for your Mac

[Mithi]

Thanks everyone for all your feedback, I'm keeping a list and will try and get to it at some point. So far I've been catching up on last years feedback 😅.

I've now added the ability to resize up to 2000 pixels, unfortunately the assets I have will be blurred if the tree goes larger than that.

@RecentlyConverted that's very kind of you, thank you! You can buy me a coffee here. You should be able to resize by hovering around the bottom right corner - a semi transparent square should appear and you can use that to drag + resize.

 

[Mithi]

@MacGizmo the flashing star should be fixed now too

 

[RecentlyConverted]

Thanks everyone for all your feedback, I'm keeping a list and will try and get to it at some point. So far I've been catching up on last years feedback 😅.

I've now added the ability to resize up to 2000 pixels, unfortunately the assets I have will be blurred if the tree goes larger than that.

@RecentlyConverted that's very kind of you, thank you! You can buy me a coffee here. You should be able to resize by hovering around the bottom right corner - a semi transparent square should appear and you can use that to drag + resize.

Thanks that worked. Three coffees bought.

 

[star-affinity]

Nice app! 🎄
But with all the options in the settings I was surprised not to see an option to turn of the days until Christmas countdown. 🤔

 

[Mithi]

🤣 @star-affinity I had that exact thought yesterday! It's a quick change so I'll do it this weekend.

 

[drtaru]

Oh that's what the 20 was, i was confused

 

[bogdanw]

I have the app in a corner of the Desktop and I changed its icon to the classic tree.

transparent png

 

[shieldcy]

Nice little app. Merry Christmas, everyone 🎄

 

[TwisterMc]

This is fantastic. Thank you. If possible, I'd like to make my tree bigger. Could it be resizable? Either way, love it.

 

[TwisterMc]

This is fantastic. Thank you. If possible, I'd like to make my tree bigger. Could it be resizable? Either way, love it.

Never mind! I now see it's resizable already!

 

[ipedro]

Thanks for this @Mithi It's a nice little bit of holiday cheer on my desktop. 🎄

Adding a suggestion: it would be nice if it could be pinned to the dock so that if you have a visible dock, it shows, and hides when the dock does, respecting the user preference for visible or hidden dock.

 

[DMG35]

Thank you so much for this, I love it!

 

[HouseofG]

Thanks everyone for all your feedback, I'm keeping a list and will try and get to it at some point. So far I've been catching up on last years feedback 😅.

Totally filled in "I'm keeping a list..." with "and checking it twice" when I first read that.

Thanks for the festive app!

 

[Rick Jansen]

As Snow was originally designed and was running on Apple computers from 40 years ago, I guess your experiences with the app might tell something about the quality of current Apple hardware and software

“In 1984 (remember Lisa?) the first Macintosh program I wrote was a computer Christmas card which showed a picture of a snowman and falling snow. Later a Father Xmas in his sleigh was added. I converted this to an undying desk accessory in 1988 (remember MultiFinder?). But, little boys grow up, and when they are forced to a workstation with X-windows they want their thingies there too. So Xsnow was born in December 1993. The X-windows version has been around for a few years now, a new Macintosh version occurred in 1996, now followed by the Windows version. (Some operating systems always come last.)” https://janswaal.home.xs4all.nl/MacSnow/

Thanks a lot!

Edit: iSnow sure uses a lot of resources. Windowserver spikes to 40+% and iSnow alone uses about 40% CPU by itself, on my M3 MBA. Not really worth it unfortunately.

Mind that the percentages you see in the Activity Monitor are not the whole story. Modern cpus have more cores; if you display usage per core you'll see that not 40% of your total cpu capacity is used, but sort of of one core. Below snapshots of iSnow running and not, running CPU % for iSnow/WindowServer is 47.9/40.9, not running 13.7/6.5. (Intel mac mini, 3GHz, 6 core)

I won't deny it uses quite some of CPU , but it's a small part of the machine's capacity.

 

[bogdanw]

@Rick Jansen If you are the developer of iSnow, please consider starting a thread for the app.
“Guidelines for Software Developers” https://macrumors.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201294426-Guidelines-for-Software-Developers

 

[Rick Jansen]

@Rick Jansen If you are the developer of iSnow, please consider starting a thread for the app.
“Guidelines for Software Developers” https://macrumors.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201294426-Guidelines-for-Software-Developers

I am, but I feel slightly embarrassed doing that.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

I am, but I feel slightly embarrassed doing that.

Why?

On a related notice, I quit my Christmas tree app today. I didn't need to have it count down for THAT long..

 

[bogdanw]

On a related notice, I quit my Christmas tree app today. I didn't need to have it count down for THAT long..

In the latest version of the app (1.3.3) you can set the date to "None" and the countdown is not displayed.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

In the latest version of the app (1.3.3) you can set the date to "None" and the countdown is not displayed.

Well, more specifically I didn't need to be reminded about Christmas for a long while.. Including having a Christmas tree on my screen. I prefer it sometime around November!