Snow Globe Countdown

Snow Globe Countdown is a small desktop enhancement tool whose purpose is to help you animate the looks of your desktop with the aid of a snow globe and count down the number of days until Christmas or New Year.

Interactive design

After a fast and simple installation process where you only need to press on a few 'Next' buttons in order to bring the task to an end, the app places an animated snow globe on your desktop. You are allowed to move the globe to the preferred position on the desktop.
A few configuration settings are hidden under the hood. You can gain access to the dedicated parameters by right-clicking on the snow globe. In addition, you may control the utility via the system tray. Decoding the integrated options won’t take much of your time because they look highly intuitive.

Configuration settings

Snow Globe Countdown offers you the possibility to show or hide the snow globe. You can make the program count down the number of days until Christmas, New Year, or Julian Christmas. The number of days is displayed just under the snow globe.
Other important tweaking parameters worth being mentioned enable you to access a website via your default web browser from where you can download additional desktop applications, change the looks of the snow globe by choosing between several predefined skins (e.g. candy, house tree, snowman, tree, house), play chimes every hour, as well as alter the text used for displaying the number of days in terms of font, style, size, and color.
Last but not least, you can load the tool at Windows startup, keep the snow globe on top of other Windows, display shadow effects, reveal or conceal the remaining days, as well as make the utility show shining stars.

Final remarks

To sum things up, Snow Globe Countdown comes bundled with several handy features for helping you add a personal touch to your desktop according to the Christmas spirit.