Put Falling Snow & Christmas Lights on Your Mac Desktop with MacLampsX
If you want to get your Mac into the holiday spirit, why not put some blinking Christmas lights and falling snow on your Mac screen? That’s exactly what the free Mac app MacLampsX will do for you, decorating your Mac for the holidays, complete with customizable holiday light bulbs, snowfall, and holly. You can change … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/15/falling-snow-christmas-lights-mac-desktop-mac … ⌘ Read more

This is the best time of the year - BEFORE the Christmas holidays - when most are hopefully looking forward to spending good times with family and friends. And I do wish you too.

JMP: Newsletter: Holidays
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Share one num … ⌘ Read more

In the holiday spirit i have donned my Santa hat. (shamelessly stolen from @movq@www.uninformativ.de)

How to Watch “Charlie Brown Christmas” for Free with Apple TV+
Apple now has the exclusive rights to “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, which means if you’d like to watch the Christmas classic from 1965 this holiday season, you’ll need to watch it through the Apple TV+ service. Fortunately, Apple TV+ offers a free seven-day trial, so you can sign up for the free trial long enough … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/10/how-to-watch-charlie-brown-christmas-for-fr … ⌘ Read more

Deals: AirPods from $99, Apple Watch 9 for $329, $100 Off iPad Air & iPad mini, etc
Apple deals continue for the holiday shopping season, with many items receiving nice discounts from Amazon. And, delivery is still available by Christmas for most! Check out the Apple section at Amazon and browse around, and glance at the deals we have highlighted below. AirPods 2nd gen for $99 Save on the AirPods 2nd gen … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/09/deal … ⌘ Read more

Apple Deals: $200 Off M3 MacBook Pro’s, $100 Off M1 iPad Air, 4-pack AirTags for $80, etc
Shopping for some Apple gear this holiday season? Why not save some cash and take advantage of Amazon’s ongoing deals for Apple hardware. We’ve rounded up a handful of great deals on the M3 MacBook Pro 14″ & 16″, M2 MacBook Air 15″, iPad Air, iPad mini, AirTags, Apple Watch Series 9, external hard drives, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/04/apple-d … ⌘ Read more

The ultimate gifts for the developer in your life this holiday season
If you’re on the hunt for the perfect holiday gifts for the developer who has it all, look no further. We’ve curated a list of 10 must-have items (plus a few more) that strike the perfect balance between practicality and style.

The post [The ultimate gifts for the developer in your life this holiday season](https://github.blog/2023-12-04-the-ultimate-gifts-for-the-developer-in-your-life-this-holid … ⌘ Read more

3 Helpful Tech Ideas for Your Thanksgiving Visits
It’s not unusual for those of us who are the “family geek” to spend time with less tech savvy people during the holidays, so why not use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to assist or improve the tech lives of loved ones? Express your thankfulness and gratitude with some helpful tech tips! 1: Setup, Explain, & … Read More ⌘ Read more

Amazon Black Friday Deals on Apple Gear Continues
Black Friday may be a few days away, but Amazon is ahead of the game and offering giant discounts and great deals on Apple products for Black Friday right now. If you’re shopping for Apple gear this holiday season, whether for someone else or to treat yourself, why pay full price when you can take … Read More ⌘ Read more

Watch the Apple Holiday Ad for 2023: “Fuzzy Feelings”
Apple has debuted their annual holiday ad for the 2023 season, or “Holiday Film” as they refer to it on YouTube, perhaps because it’s nearly four minutes long. The 2023 Apple Holiday Film, titled “Fuzzy Feelings”, follows some of the typical modern media tropes, focusing on a younger woman who seems to strongly dislike her … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/11/21/watch-the-apple-holiday-ad-for-2023-fuzzy-feelings … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Captain’s Holiday https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/07/captain-s-holiday.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Earlymorning here, a bank holiday, day to get things done.

This coming Monday will be a public holiday

From Vietnam to Sydney to Darwin: The Nguyens came for a holiday and stayed 10 years
Buying a mango farm while on holiday has brought its fair share of challenges, but the Nguyen family haven’t looked back. ⌘ Read more

Too lazy or too ambitious?
Today was the second day of my “Hell Week”. Not because my week is so bad, it is after all holidays and time off, no, because I have arrived in the last week of the “Training Journey” at Freeletics. At the end of the Journey, the “coach” requires training every day, usually a so-called “god workout” in addition to warm-up and cool-down. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: 🍾 Happy Calendar-Changing Day, 2023 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/01/hny2023.html #holiday #newyear

Away for my holidays in Vienna!

Animated ASCII fireworks in your Terminal for New Years
Lunduke’s Holiday BASH Animations now has a “Fireworks” option. ⌘ Read more

Animated ASCII Christmas Tree and Hanukkah Menorah in your Shell
Because your Terminal deserves to feel festive during the holidays. ⌘ Read more

[Perl] Date::Holidays::TW 模組的製作與維護 ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net Being German I naturally don’t care for flags, but I have to admit the colored version on your website looks even nicer than the black and white one here. Are JGS at the very end the true initials of your name? And I can’t resist to ask which two states you left out? ]:-> Anyways, enjoy your holiday!

How tropical islands on Indonesia and Thailand are the new working from home
Tourism hotspots Thailand and Indonesia are trying to take advantage of business-leisure travellers – a subset of digital nomads, living and working abroad for longer than a typical holiday without taking up permanent residence. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – May 09, 2022
Listen now (27 min) | The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays. ⌘ Read more

The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays.
And then punished the Jew who objected to that action. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of December 2021 and January 2022!

We hope you had a great shift into the new year by now as well as are happy to have you reading the new release! We guess that this episode has caught some weight over the new year’s holidays :-)

Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and sof … ⌘ Read more

On the blog: Short Fiction — All Quiet on the Vernal Front https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/12/05/war.html #fiction #christmas #holiday

Docker SSO is Coming
The impending winter and holiday season hasn’t slowed us down here at Docker HQ. In fact, our engineers have been hard at work to put the finishing touches on one of our most requested features by our enterprise customers: Docker Single Sign-On (SSO). 🎄🎁 With Docker SSO enabled, users can authenticate using their organization’s standard […]

The post Docker SSO is Coming appeared first on [Docker Blog](https://www.docker.com/bl … ⌘ Read more

On the blog: First Official Juneteenth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/20/juneteenth.html #holiday

On the blog: 🍾 Happy Calendar-Changing Day (Belated), 2021 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/03/hny2021.html #holiday #newyear

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Happy (Orthodox?) Pi Day, Tomorrow! https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/04/pi.html #holiday #math #dissent #pi #radix #programming #techtips

We will never know what it’s like to be the person the K-Mart PA system’s 1994 holiday playlist wants us to be.

Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you’re a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year – preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings

Band name of the day: invaders on holiday