I must admit I haven't set my Christmas tree at home yet. I just feel too lazy to start unpacking green plastic branches, shiny tinsel and colourful balls. So when I came across this little digital Christmas I thought it was a great idea.

Free Christmas Tree is a desktop companion in the shape of a traditional Christmas tree that counts down the days left to Christmas. The program's appearance can be customized with skins and the countdown date can also be changed to New Year's Day or Julian Christmas. Also, if you want to change the clock's font, open the program's menu and go to Skins – Edit skin font, but apparently the new settings are not saved when you exit the program.

In any case, this little Christmas tree is a funny widget for your desktop that will help you get in the mood for these days – although nothing like the real thing. Excuse me now, I'm off to set my Christmas tree at home.

This holiday season ecorate your desktop with this cute Christmas tree companion.