The holiday sales don’t end with Christmas, of course. Many good ones carry up through to the new year and beyond, so we’ve gathered those up from four Christmas roundups and have added a few new ones to give you great savings from companies such as Mariner, Global Delight, Eltima and Steam. Check them out, more »

Decorations, greeting cards, gift lists…there’s no need all of this has to be confined to the physical world when the digital can be more handy, just as fun, and quite a bit cheaper. Many developers release special Christmas versions of their popular programs, and there are many holiday specific releases, as well. Head inside to see how you can keep your holidays organized and festive.

I like snow, although I’m never sorry if it holds off till Christmas. Here on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, we usually don’t get snow that sticks until after Christmas. If you’re a snow fan, wherever you live you can still enjoy some snow on your computer desktop for Christmas, and the great thing about virtual snow is than you don’t have to shovel or plow it. There are more desktop snow applications for the Mac than you might imagine.

It’s almost time I was out looking for this year’s Christmas tree, although I’ll hold off until after deer hunting season is over next weekend. With a 130 acre woodlot, covered mostly with balsam fir, it might seem finding a decent Christmas tree would be a piece of cake, but it isn’t. Thankfully, it’s easier to find virtual trees for your Macintosh, many of which are free.

Advent, which began on November 27th this year, marks New Years on the the historic Christian Church calendar—the beginning of the new liturgical year and the Church season leading up to Christmas Day. Advent calendars seem more popular than ever recently, possibly due to the variety available for use on computers, smartphones and tablets. Here, we’ve rounded up some free ones for Apple’s Macintosh and iOS devices.

That’s right, now you can get Growl on the Mac App Store. It’s been updated to version 1.3 with new features and a new price tag. Yep, you’re going to have to start paying for Growl, but let’s be honest, it’s worth a lot more than $1.99. Rollup is the biggest new feature; it aggregates all of the notifications you missed while idle and presents them to you in a window. But wait, there’s more.

Ah, the glamor of parenthood. How quickly your Mac and iDevice turn from entertainment and productivity to something like settling your nerves when your baby’s not in the same room as you. But really, why not? What’s the point in buying extra devices to make sure your child is secure and happy when you’ve already got nearly all the equipment you need as part of your digital hub? One of the first places you’ll want to look is WiFi Baby.

Hot on the heals of yesterday’s Boxee for iPad announcement comes another one from the Boxee team. This time it involves the Boxee Box and streaming music. More specifically, Boxee has announced they now have a Grooveshark application that will allow you to stream all of your favorite music just as you can anything else through Boxee.

Late last week, Corel announced new photo software for iPhone, iPad and Mac users: Slingshot, a free photo-sharing app for iPhone; PostCard, a free app that turns photos into printed postcards; and QuickSort, a free Mac app that organizes photos and lets you link them to Facebook. We’d tell you more about it, but why do so when our friends at YourDigitalLife have already done the work?

If you were worried the folks over at Boxee were sleeping, worry no more. They’ve announced a slew of interesting updates/products this week, including an iPad app. Now, not only can you stream content from your PC to your Boxee iPad app, you can watch your iPad app content on your Boxee Box. Yes, it does sound a lot like what the Apple TV and Airplay allow you to do, and that’s great!