If you’re the serious kind who wouldn’t dream of wasting their precious CPU cycles on pointless fluff or if you can’t stand kitsch then you should probably just stop reading now, this won’t be of any interest to you what so ever. If you on the other hand, you have an over-abundance of festive spirit and some spare CPU cyles (and you run OS X) then MacLampX is just the thing for you.

All MacLampX does is add a string of Christmas lights and other fluff around the edge of your screen. It actually has a surprisingly large amount of options. The most important are control over the level at which the lights should appear. There are a few options ranging from the desktop to floating over everything (if you’re gonna do it do it right I say!). Next you have control over whether the lights flash, how they flash and crucially, how fast they flash. The other cool feature is that you can compose the pattern for the lights yourself with a nice drag-and-drop interface. You can independently control the four corners and the four sides of the screen. You can’t have nothing on any side of the screen but there is a spacer that you can insert so you can get a blank side by first adding a spacer and then removing everything else. I’ve set my top and left (where I keep my Doc) to be free because otherwise this really does get very annoying very soon.

No real point in harping on about this, it does exactly what it says on the tin as it were so I’ll just leave you with a screen-shot:

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