Dress Up Your Computer for the Holidays

There are some fun ways to get you in the holiday spirit this season by dressing up your computer. Although many of us hoped that the iGoogle holiday themes would arrive, so far they have yet to materialize (the photo album of images was discovered here). But you can still dress up your Firefox browser with the Tinseltown Firefox theme. This theme includes imagery like Christmas lights, reindeer, presents, and snow. Another Firefox theme, X-Mas, brings animated snowfall to the Firefox toolbar, fairy lights that become scrollbars, and animated toolbar icons like a smoking chimney, a present, and a fir Tree. Since the animated snowfall can eat up CPU usage, a light version without the snow is also available here. For desktop wallpaper, a quick search on flickr brings back tons of results for holiday-themed wallpaper. Another old favorite of mine is Kate.net’s pages of holiday wallpapers and screensavers. Microsoft offers free “Winter Fun” screensavers and a Christmas Theme for Windows XP. Users of Stardock’s WindowBlinds software can even go all-out and download holiday Windows themes like White Christmas and Candy Cane Lane. (WindowBlinds isn’t free, but a free trial is available, which is long enough to get you through the season). Finally, if you like the picture in this post, click here for a larger version of this adorable Christmas wallpaper, which you can set as your desktop background.