Publisher's Description
From Free Range Mac:
TreetopLights is an application that places a Christmas tree on the desktop and holiday lights on the menubar or screen edges. The desktop tree can be decorated with blinking or fading lights, an assortment of ornaments, a treetop star, and perhaps some snow. A small assortment of lights are available, and custom lights can be designed and added for both the tree and screen lights. The ambient lighting can be controlled for the appearance of a dimly or brightly lit room, and the transparency and size of the tree can be set to keep it out of the way, or set the perfect holiday mood. The optional but festive menubar lights can blink or glow to decorate the menubar, or even go around the screen. A customizable countdown timer displaying days until Christmas and the twelve days of Christmas is included for display on the desktop tree and dock icon. There's also an option to send a Christmas greeting through Apple's Mail application. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
What's new in this version:
- Updated for Snow Leopard
- Santa & Snowman now appear when clicking or command-clicking the desktop tree in Snow Leopard
- Send A Christmas Greeting option now creates a proper image attachment with Mail in Snow Leopard
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All versions:
4.4 starsout of 10 votes
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Current version:
5.0 starsout of 3 votes
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"Great Product"
Version: TreetopLights 2.4
Pros
Very customizable
Beautifully rendered graphics
FreeCons
I agree that it would be nice to customize further, adjust bulb and tree sizes, but for a free product, who can complain?
Summary
Before upgrading to Intel-Mac, I had several Christmas apps that now don't work. This product has combined the features of two of the apps I was using before. Thanks for the Christmas cheer!
I just realized, you can adjust the size of the tree!
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"in general the idea is better than the execution"
Version: TreetopLights 2.4
Pros
i expect it to surprise by-passers ... and myself
Cons
tree size cant be changed through preferences pane bulb effects are limited bulb size also cant be changed classic bulbs are not very bright snow effect is ugly, golden ornaments make the tree look cheap, wait i forgot what i like about this already!
Summary
i like to place an illuminated tree and ornamentation lights on my desktop it is a good idea when you do not have enough space around to reflect the spirit of the season, i believe the graphics could be more elaborately worked though, somehow these did not give me the warmth the warm feeling when you like something and want it to be around more often, now i turn it on and off, and frankly it was off for i do not know how many days, but i have forgotten to turn it back on again until i received your message, i believe this may have something to do with the fan noise i am experiencing which may not have anything to do with your product, i was only being cautious to keep as little amount of applications as i could, that is why... now that i am running istat i know that the tree is not keeping my cpu as busy as i thought it would. One other point that i want to make is the desktop background; i can not make up my mind which one to apply? So i suggest you make this part of your software and offer a couple of background images to go along with the theme. How about some tunes too ... And allow me to say that the snowman is not very handsome. I would rather see the face of Santa, pleeeeease...
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"Oh What Fun!!!"
Version: TreetopLights 2.4
Pros
Very festive indeed, and it doesn't interfere with the running of any other applications whatsoever. The scenery is delightful! Makes we want a hot cuppa cocoa right here ~ close at hand. Thank you!
Cons
none at all.
Summary
Add some fun & holiday spirit to your desktop. It has me smiling :)













