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THEMES: New theme: "A Posteriori"
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Studio 52 released A Posteriori, a stark white theme with heavy aqua-marine accents. In addition to the skins for QT Player and iTunes, the package lso includes a couple dozen icons! Check out Icredunormous preview in the Download Archive.
Posted by coyle on Monday, October 22 @ 23:37:45 MDT
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THEMES: DragThing Updates. Adds Leopard Support.
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From the shores of Scotland comes word that James Thomson has updates the super-dock app: DragThing! Version 5.9 sports over two dozen changes; my favorites are support for Mac OS X 10.5, and dock-icon reflections.
No wait, maybe my favorite option is that I can choose from 22 dock themes or create my own.
No wait, my really favorite new option is... well, you get the idea. Go to the site and download DragThing. It's been in development for 10 years and has tons of features Apple will probably steal any-day-now.
 My Boxy Gaming Dock
Posted by coyle on Friday, October 19 @ 08:26:46 MDT
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THEMES: Halloween Theme Roundup
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Darken your Mac with one of these themes for Halloween. You'll need Shapeshifter from Unsanity to install them.
Posted by coyle on Saturday, October 13 @ 08:18:35 MDT
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THEMES: New Theme from Susumu
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The Japanese site, McDo has posted the newest theme from Susumu titled, Disingenuous. The well done grey theme comes in two variations, one with more toolbar bevel than the other. Checkout the humonagantic preview in the Download Archive.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, September 13 @ 08:15:59 MDT
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THEMES: TenFive Theme
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Austin Heheller has updated his recently released TenFive theme. Its goal is to bring the best features of Leopard to earlier versions of Mac OS X.
You can forget about a transparent menu or 3D Dock that looks silly on the right side of your monitor! Checkout the monster preview in the Download Section.
Posted by coyle on Monday, September 10 @ 08:26:37 MDT
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THEMES: Cube Theme: Like Black, it goes with anything.
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I have this shirt. It's kinda orange. I like it a lot, but it doesn't go with any of my shorts (except my blue denim jean shorts). No word in the English language rhymes with Orange, so I like to think of it as the acid test for an Appearance Theme: Does it work with orange?
Cube does Orange. It's a new theme by Hirogen and while it's very white, it's not boring. The little accents keep it interesting. Checkout the Ginormous Preview in our Download Section and then try to find a color that doesn' t work with Cube. Go ahead, I dare ya!
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, August 29 @ 23:23:46 MDT
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THEMES: End of the Road for Liger?
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In a recent blog post, Spiderlama announced he is stopping work on the Appearance Theme, Liger. In case you've been living on a deserted island, Liger is the Shapeshifter Theme that mimics the look of Apple's next OS release code-named Leopard. Spiderlama said:
"I’m out. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to work on this any more.
It sucks but I’ll get over it. But it’s OK, because I am willing to
tell you my secret ideas on how to solve this cookie."
In the remainder of the post he outlines what steps need to be taken to bring the theme to the next level. I hope someone picks the the project up, but I suspect Spiderlama left some pretty big shoes to fill.
Posted by coyle on Monday, August 27 @ 19:11:33 MDT
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THEMES: Rhino Theme by MrToNeR
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He's done it again! Rhino is the newest theme by MrToNeR. This soft grey theme with light and dark menu variations, includes 5 desktops pictures, iTunes color mod kit, plus full set of replacement System icons in iContainer format.
PLUS appskins for the following: DVD Player, iChat, iTunes, Mail, Pixadex, Quicktime, Safari, System Preferences, Transmit, VLC Player.
Visit the Download Section and feast your eyes upon the enormous Flash preview, then download and install.
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, August 21 @ 09:23:23 MDT
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THEMES: New Theme: Azure
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Azure is a new theme by GlossII featuring very translucent drop down menus and azure accents. Check out the larger preview in the Download Section.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, August 16 @ 05:10:00 MDT
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THEMES: Tapestry Theme by Doc
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The last of the first four themes created by Doc has been posted, and it's a beauty! Tapestry is a greeninsh theme with dark menu accents. Like all of Doc's themes, it's loaded with lots of goodies like a Safari button makeover kit!
Posted by coyle on Monday, July 16 @ 08:21:46 MDT
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THEMES: Somatic Theme Updated
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The other day in the forum, I mentioned problems I was having with some Shapeshifter themes and iTunes 7.3. It seems David Lanham's Somatic also had the problem, but he just updated so snag a new copy! Visit his site and get the matching Somatic icons; there are two sets for both the system and documents.
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, July 10 @ 08:46:10 MDT
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THEMES: HiTechX: What's Old is New
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The look of this theme, released almost 10 years ago after MacOS 8.5 first supported themes, has always been a favorite of mine. Doc has spent a lot of time updating it for Mac OS X. His HiTechX includes a full icon set, Safari Button Makeover and more. Checkout the larger preview in the Download Section.
Posted by coyle on Monday, July 09 @ 07:50:00 MDT
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THEMES: Midas Theme Released by Doc
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Doc has released his second new theme titled Midas. This golden colored makeover includes a complete icon set and replacement Safari buttons. Don't forget to click the Donate button and send a few bucks to Doc and help him upgrade to Tiger!
Posted by coyle on Thursday, July 05 @ 07:58:50 MDT
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THEMES: New Theme Artist releases TruBlue
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There's a new Theme artist on the block named Doc and you can download his TruBlue from the archive. It's a bright blue theme complete with an icon set and desktop picture and is avalable as a DLTA for Themechanger, and GuiKit for Shapeshifter. If you use the DLTA, you'll enjoy the benefit of a themed Boot Screen, Login Screen and more.
This theme is optimized for Mac OS X 10.3, but it looks great in 10.4 too, which leads me to my next point...
Doc is a young guy and when you're young, money is always tight. We need to pull together and help Doc pickup a copy of Tiger so his themes can be updated, and if you're extra generous he'll have a little cash left over to buy Leopard when it's released in a few monthes.
The pool of theme authors seems to be continually shrinking. If we all want to enjoy the ability to change the look of our Macs we need to support the artists who pour so much of their time into themeing. It would be great to see at least a dozen of us old-timers step up and click the PayPal Donation Button for Doc. Once he has Tiger, he'll update all his themes (more will be posted later this week). Thanks gang!
Posted by coyle on Monday, July 02 @ 14:00:25 MDT
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THEMES: Theme Updated
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Stefanie Koerner at monochrom, has updated her pxlprt2.4 theme to fix some glitches with the new iTunes 7.2. She says something that I've recently heard from a lot of theme authors,
"Really, I am not sure if I want to continue theming, if skins need so many images and so many updates … neverending story. Well, let's wait and see what Leopard looks like."
Hopefully, the unified window theme of Leopard will make Themeing easier, ending the internal Apple battle between Aqua and Brushed Metal.
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, June 26 @ 08:02:34 MDT
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THEMES: Amazing Transparent Theme
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Leland Scott from Musings from Mars, has created an entirely transparent theme, Crystal Clear. In this article, he describes what drove him to experiment over the years in extreme transparency. I ran this theme for a few hours and it's beautiful, but takes some getting use to. I think the less cluttered you keep the desktop, the more you'll enjoy the theme (I'm way too cluttered!).
If this can be ported to Leopard, I think it could really shine when combined with Spaces, where you may have a single application per Space.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, June 20 @ 07:30:00 MDT
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