Someone at the University of Chicago has whipped up a Leopard Mail Stationery template as an exercise in testing the drag-n-drop images wells in the default stationery templates.

It’s nothing revolutionary, but offers a more image rich environment than the standard templates provide.

After installing it (double-click on the downloaded file), you can drag-n-drop away to your heart’s content:

Photo Cluster is freeware and is available from a web page at the University of Chicago.

Along the same lines, those expecting a baby girl and distressed by the lack of a pink Baby Announcement template in Leopard Mail will find relief in the work of Ed Dyer, who has tweaked the existing blue one to offer a pink alternative.

He writes about it on the Apple Discussions and has made the template available for download from his iDisk .eye-candy, mail.app, apple mail, leopard mail, stationery, HTML, templates, baby girls

Christmas for Mac users means seasonal eye-candy.

TUAW has posted about Sn?ɬ? (a snow storm on your Desktop), MacLampsX (Christmas light for your Desktop) and Christmas icons at the Icon Factory.

Mail.app can easily join the party.

Changing Apple Mail‘s Dock icon is easy. There are lots of different stamps for Mail.app, but you are not restricted to those.

You could use one of the icons from the Icon Factory, or a Christmas icon from ResExcellence or one of the Classic Christmas icons from Apple’s OS X Downloads.

For me, Christmas in recent years as meant (amongst other things) another instalment of the Lord of the Rings. So my Mail.app is looking like Isildur’s Account (from the LOTR icon set):

We will have to make do with Narnia this year, a fable not an epic. Oh, well.