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Festive Lights

Version: 5.0.1
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Minimum Requirements: Mac OSX 10.4 or later
Package Type: Universal
Downloads: 793,282 (53,669 this version)

Our Gift To You

We've spent many hours preparing a brand new version of the widget for you this holiday season, adding many new features and a whole lot of polish. As just one example, we've finally introduced dimming light patterns to give a softer glow to your dashboard. Check out the full list of new features below, and consider it our gift to you this Christmas.

An Important Update Notice

This year, a lot of changes have happened under the hood to improve reliability and future extensibility. For this reason, you may want to close the widget before installing the new one if it's open. Also, your existing preferences will be overwritten the next time you restart your Mac. This is a one-time thing, and future reboots and updates will go smoothly. Thanks for understanding!

Light Spectacular

Thanks so much to everyone who donated this holiday season. With your help, we have been able to donate $250 to the Toys for Tots Foundation! We appreciate your support. Now that the new year has arrived, we have some new lightsets to carry you through the winter. Whether you're digging yourself out of snow all the time or have yet to see snow this year, the Flocons lightset created by Christian D. will be a nice winter wonderland for your Dashboard. Don't forget to peruse the lightset gallery for many more designs.

Be sure to check back frequently as the list of lightsets submitted by the Mac community continues to grow, and try out the "Featured lightset" option in the latest version of the widget, to be kept up to date with featured lightsets automatically.

Brighten Your Desktop

If you'd like your lights directly on your Desktop instead of in Dashboard, check out the DevMode widget that Jeremy Williams created. You will also want to check out the documentation.

Features

1. Choice of white, multicolored, or a multitude of custom lightsets
2. Over a dozen available light patterns including blink, twinkle, and chase
3. Adjustable speed and scale, with live resizing
4. Beautiful graphics
5. Multiple placement options
6. Multiple monitor support

New in Version 5.0

1. Attribution tag for custom lightsets
2. Better lightset removal support
3. Six new light patterns, including new dimming patterns
4. Updated standard lightsets are livelier than ever before
5. Animated tags add a bit of festive flair
6. New rendering engine with improved performance
7. Improved multi-monitor behavior
8. Simplified lightset format makes creating lightsets even easier
9. Minor bug fixes

New in Version 5.0.1

1. Adds support for OSX 10.4 Tiger