ONION is a font that was designed after the unidentified font included in Art Deco Initials, selected and arranged by carol Belanger Grafton [Dover, 1991; "selected from rare periodicals (mostly European), type catalogs and printed ephemera ofthe 20s and 30s."]

Feline Christmas Demo Screensaver will present you some furry felines as they sing the Christmas carol Deck The Halls for you.

They sway back and forth as they sing to you. Other animations are included in this screensaver. You also have the option to shut off the music.

Limitations:

· Registered version is full screen 800 x 600 resolution

3D Halloween Christmas - skeleton Santa and Jack-O-Lantern Snowman dance around a "Christmas tree" as jack-o-lantern "snow" falls.

3D Halloween Christmas is a 3D screensaver that makes a combination between halloween and christmas.

Contains realistically modeled 3D animated images and MP3 music file (Carol of the Bells). Watch bats fly and select from falling snow, pumpkins, tiny colored skulls or eyeballs, each with matching ground covering.

Limitations:

· 7 days trial

A Christmas Tree Screensaver allows the users to create and decorate their own unique Christmas tree. Accompanied by 8 classic Christmas Carols, this screen saver can be controlled by you or randomly drawn by the computer to create thousands of different holiday trees.

48 different ornaments, 9 tree colors, 9 tree toppers, choose from infinite background colors, randomize option, animated falling snow, presents and twinkling lights.

Wide range of choices for countless colorful variations and fun combinations.

Here are some key features of "A Christmas Tree Screensaver":

Backgrounds
· Desktop - Your tree will magically draw and animate on your desktop.
· Pick Your Own Color - Choose from millions of colors for the background of your scene.
· Random - Have the computer choose the color randomly.
· Christmas Eve - Firelit room with snow falling outside.
· Tree Color - Choose from up to 8 different colors of trees or choose Random and the computer will choose for you.

Sound
· Sound can be turned on or off.
· There are 8 songs available that you can select to be played randomly while the screensaver is running. Choose them all or choose your favorites: O Christmas Tree, Silent Night, Deck the Halls, carol of the Bells, God Rest Ye Merry, Good King Wenceslas, Hark the Harold, We Wish You a Merry Christmas
· Timer - Choose the length of time the screensaver will snow, drop falling gifts, blink or pause when the scene is finished.
· Drawing Speed - Adjust this setting to slow down or speed up the drawing/animation speed of the screensaver.

Ornaments
· Choose from up to 48 ornaments from the categories below.
· Traditional
· Ice & Snow
· Animals
· Sports
· Celestial

Random Ornaments
· Chosen Ornaments - Random Randomizes only the ornaments you have chosen.
· All Ornaments Random - Randomizes all of the ornaments.

Options
· Gifts - Places gifts under the tree.
· Falling Gifts - Gifts fall from above and land under the tree.
· Falling Snow - Snow falls and builds up under the tree.
· Sticky Falling Snow - Snow falls and sticks to the tree.
· Blinking - Lights blink on the tree. This feature will work with or without ornaments.
· Tree Toppers - Choose from nine different tree topper ornaments. Choose Random* to have the computer choose different toppers randomly.
· Tree Stands - Choose from four different tree stands. Choose Random* to have the computer choose different stands randomly.
· Trim - Choose Popcorn or colored tinsel.

Santa Clock is a Google Desktop gadget that can bring Santa Claus on your desktop even if Christmas is far away.

Using it you get both the feeling of Christmas and a beautiful desktop clock. It shows more Santa and Christmas related pictures when you click on the clock.

More than that, it is able to play a carol every hour.

Watch different Christmas season pictures scroll across your desktop - including Santa,snowmen, reindeers etc.. All while "Carol of the Bells" plays in the background

Experience these dynamic, intimate photographs of authentic African rituals, spanning the entire continent - the distillation of 20 years of research and travel - providing what may be the world’s last look at remarkable rites of passage from birth to death, including seasonal rituals, the power and drama of royal courts, and religious ceremonies. Abrams Books’ Passages - Photographs in Africa by carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher.

Everything You Need for a Great Xmas Read ! Relax this Christmas with a wonderful selection of top books you can read at your leisure. Our top reading selection comprises over 80 beautifully presented books just for you - a veritable feast of favourites to help you relax over the festive period. Titles include: Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, Some Christmas Stories, The Holly Tree and more ... Clement C Moore - A Visit from Saint Nicholas, Twas The Night Before Christmas, Jack London - A Daughter Of The Snows, Children Of The Frost and more ... L Frank Baum - The Wizard Of Oz, The Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales, Jonathan Swift - Gullivers Travels , Lewis Carroll - Through The Looking-Glass, Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book and more ... Arnold Bennett - The Ghost, The Human Machine and more ... Bram Stoker - Dracula, EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread and more ... Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, Included are titles by the Bronte sisters including Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights. Also, works by DH Lawrence including Sons and Lovers, Women in Love. Plus - works by even more great authors such as: Herman Melville - Moby Dick, HG Wells - The War of The Worlds, James Joyce - Ulysses and more ... Jane Austen - Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice and more ... AND works by Joseph Conrad, Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, Montaigne, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Butler, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, Theodore Dreiser.

A great tool for solving all of those compelling problems on that famous Channel 4 programme - now you can keep up with carol and the rest of that team! Countdown Cracker also plays the game and a few other games too - set your own challenges.