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    Best Apps to Tweak Mac OS X Appearence

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by nonamebowler, Apr 11, 2009.

  1. nonamebowler

    nonamebowler Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey Guys, just bought my first mac a couple of weeks ago, bought the macbook unibody. I was just wondering if you guys knew of any good apps that would help me tweak my appearance. They can be free or cost money, thanks.
     
    nonamebowler, Apr 11, 2009
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  2. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    CandyBar would be great! CandyBar allows you to change the system icons in Mac OS X that you normally can't, including including the trash can, volumes, default folder, and more!

    CandyBar 3 also now includes a full-featured icon organizer (formerly called Pixadex) that acts like an iPhoto for your icons: collect and store your icons in the same application you use to change them!

    CandyBar also now lets you customize the look of Leopard's dock. Too shiny? Too flashy? Make it look the way you want by simply dragging images in to replace. Nice.

    http://www.panic.com/candybar/

    Pretty cool huh? :p

    Hope that helps!
     
    Colton, Apr 11, 2009
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  3. bczera

    bczera Notebook Geek

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    CandyBar is something like a must. Is a program designed to manage all the icons of your system, it REALLY is a good good program. Well, and DockDoctor is good too, and you should try GeekTool, is a new thing going around that lets you do things like this: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=628023
     
    bczera, Apr 11, 2009
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  4. bczera

    bczera Notebook Geek

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    Colton that was close jajaahahah
     
    bczera, Apr 11, 2009
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  5. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Hehe, it was, but I still won! :p
     
    Colton, Apr 11, 2009
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  6. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    I've seen geektool before, to bad my desk top is always covered by windows :|
     
    Seshan, Apr 11, 2009
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  7. Luke1708

    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    I'll try candy bar. I want to have a new look in my desktop.
     
    Luke1708, Apr 11, 2009
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  8. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Yup, you'll definitely get a sweet new look. ;) I personally don't use it, but I've heard very good reviews on it, and have seen some awesome desktops made by it.
     
    Colton, Apr 11, 2009
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  9. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    cdnalsi, Apr 12, 2009
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  10. haquocdung

    haquocdung Notebook Virtuoso

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    you need to update your sig.
     
    haquocdung, Apr 12, 2009
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  11. Black_Hawk

    Black_Hawk Notebook Enthusiast

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    You should really try iLeopard. It's a theme that gives the gui the look and feel of itunes.
     
    Black_Hawk, Apr 12, 2009
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