Santa Countdown

Santa Countdown is a small software application developed specifically for helping you make use of an animated countdown timer in order to check out the remaining days until Christmas or New Year.

Fun and interactive layout

The program does not simply show the time in the main window. It also adds to the time display a Santa character which can be moved anywhere on the desktop using drag-and-drop actions.
Help instructions are not available about how to configure the dedicated parameters but you can easily get an idea about how the tool works, thanks to its intuitive set of options. The utility can be tweaked via right-clicks on the countdown timer or its tray icon.

Configuration settings

Santa Countdown offers you the possibility to check out the time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds, hide the countdown timer from the screen and restore it from the system tray, as well as set the due date by selecting between several predefined values, such as New Year, Julian, and December 24 or 25.
You can also change the looks of the countdown timer with the aid of different skins and play sound notifications every hour or half an hour. In addition, you are allowed to disable the sound notifications and choose between chimes or jingle bells.
Other important configuration settings worth being mentioned enable you to modify the text used for displaying the time in terms of font, font style, size, and color, load the tool at Windows startup, keep the timer on top of all windows, enable or disable shadow effects, show or hide stars, as well as conceal the time display.
Tests have shown that Santa Countdown carries out a task quickly and without errors. It remains light on system resources so you do not have to worry that it hampers the overall performance of the computer.

Final remarks

The bottom line is that Santa Countdown comes packed with several handy features for helping you count down the time until Christmas or New Year, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.