Instead of giving away free software on Christmas Day, Apple are giving away free media on iTunes in the UK and possibly other European countries.
Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas’ Giveaway provides one free download every day between 26 Dec and 6 Jan. Yesterday, Apple were offering a music video of ‘That’s Not My Name’ by [...]
iTunes giving away free media
Christmas eCards
CardFunk should remind everyone of Elf Yourself as it practically uses the same concept for its eCards. A user visiting the page can create an eCard for Christmas. The final product will have up to five dancing characters, music and a personal message.
The basic steps are similar to Elf Yourself. You start by picking the [...]
Dressing your Mac up for Christmas
Whilst I realise this website has a Linux and Windows-focus, I am (for better or for worse) a OS X user. As Christmas approaches, houses and offices are often adorned with decorations and there is no reason a Mac can’t be too.
In Northern England, we have been ‘fortunate’ enough to have had quite a bit [...]
Elf Yourself Redesigned
Last year, around the same time, we spotted a very interesting service that made it possible to dress five people as elfs and have them perform a dance afterwards. The Elf Yourself craze was born and it quickly became a popular website. On a sidenote, my nephew who was 4 at the time, loved to [...]
Desktop Christmas Tree
If you like to stuff blinking lights, elfs or Christmas trees into and around your house as soon as the Christmas season nears you might also like the desktop Christmas tree. Everyone else should probably better skip the article and head over to the next one.
With Animated Christmas Tree for Desktop 2009 you get an [...]
Elf Yourself
I’m normally not a fan of putting images of people I know on the Internet but I made an exception for the Elf Yourself website. The pictures are still private and not viewable by anyone who does not know the correct link to the set that you have created. But let me start with a short explanation of what Elf Yourself is all about.
Entertaining Jigsaw Puzzles for Christmas
My four year old nephew likes to play jigsaw puzzles and I also began teaching him computer basics. He already knows how to move the mouse, click and drag objects and install Linux on a computer. (just kidding about the last one). He does very well and I thought it would be nice to play some jigsaw puzzles with him on the computer so that he would get used to mouse movement and ways of interacting with the screen and game.
