Yes folks, it's that festive season again, and thoughts naturally turn to 'what application should I use to draw a snowflake?'

Well, for starters, there's Cogapp's own Infinite Snowflake. This allows you to draw a pretty snowflake using our tasteful Christmas colour palette, and to optionally send it as an e-card to your friends. You can see and create snowflakes using the Flash interface at snowflake.cogapp.com, or you can just see what everyone else has created using good ol' HTML.

Then, there's Make-a-flake, a Flash application that replicates the age-old children's interface of folding paper and cutting bits out of it. You can email your design, and even download it as an EPS file.

There's a similar, paper-removal idea at Snowdays. It lets you email your designs, and then adds them to the constantly falling snow on the welcome page. As well as being able to email a link to your design, you can also leave comments about other people's flakes.

For a no-frills, HTML interface to snowflake design, visit the geometric snowflake generator. You can let your friends see your designs by sending them catchy identifiers like 011000001110000011101000110110001000101100011010 0011000001100110000011101000100010100010000 and getting them to click the 'regenerate' button.

At the opposite end of the frill-spectrum, there's a 3D snowflake generator from Ze Frank. It may not be physically accurate, but it sure is purty.

Finally, owners of a laser-cutter or CNC machine (or those of you who fancy placing an order with Ponoko) will be interested in this cross-platform programme to generate vector-based snowflakes, from the good people at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.

Happy snowflake creating, one and all!