Festivitas
Simon B. Støvring (MacRumors):
✨ Introducing Festivitas for macOS! 🎄
Deck your dock and menu bar with endlessly customizable festive lights. Add a touch of holiday magic to your Mac ✨💻
It’s a one-time purchase for €4, only available outside the Mac App Store because it requires accessibility access to find window positions.
It’s a well executed app that’s got the flavor of the fun early Mac era. It reminds me of classic Mac apps like Underware and more modern takes like Notchmeister.
There is something very core to the Mac’s origins about not just making a software toy like this, but putting effort into making everything about it really nice. Harks back to Steven Halls’s The Talking Moose and, of course, the undisputed king of the genre, Eric Shapiro’s The Grouch. Oh, and of course (thanks to Stephen Hackett for the reminder), Holiday Lights.
Drawing to SwiftUI’s Canvas seems very CPU-intensive, causing Festivitas to have way too high power consumption. It’s surprising to me that drawing should be that expensive. Festivitas’ drawing is quite simple after all 🤔
A collection of lovingly hand-knitted wallpapers for your Mac just in time for the holidays.
Decorate your devices with these festive, FREE, textured wallpapers perfect for the holiday season from artist @gedeonm.
Previously:
- Selling Outside of the Mac App Store
- Moom 4
- PopClip Leaving the Mac App Store
- MsgFiler 4
- TextExpander 4 Leaves Mac App Store
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I love apps like these, and feel it's one of the major things missing in modern day macOS that made classic Macs so great. Too bad about the power requirements, though. I wonder if using AppKit would have the same issue?
Good news for you Plume; it is still there: http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Eyeballs.html
I applaud festivas and agree with Bri, this is what the platform needs to make OS X a less sterile and more personal environment to use. All those little tweaks and goofs made System 7 fun to use.