ShapeShifter 2.2

Unsanity LLC

$20.00 shareware

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ShapeShifter is a revolutionary new product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes'. We're not talking about just desktop backgrounds and icons here, we're talking about everything - the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, absolutely everything. You don't wear the same clothes everyday, your house doesn't look exactly like your neighbor's - why should the computing interface you use everyday be any different. You personalize your physical workspace to suit your tastes and whims, so why not your Mac? With ShapeShifter, you can:

• Change the overall appearance of your operating system safely, quickly, and reliably
• Change the appearance of individual apps to match your theme and your mood
• Experience things that haven't been possible with Mac themes before
• Quickly preview themes without actually applying them
• Use Jaguar themes in Panther effortlessly
• Install different themes for different users
• Add and remove themes effortlessly

ThemePark 3.0

Geekspiff

$20.00 shareware

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Down with Aqua! ThemePark lets you give your computer a style of its own. Use ThemePark to create or modify the way Mac OS X looks, as well as to change the appearance of individual applications. Just draw titlebars, buttons, and other widgets in the graphics editor of your choice, and paste them into ThemePark to create a new theme or modify an existing one. ThemePark now supports application skins and tight Adobe Photoshop® integration! With ThemePark you can:

• Create new themes simply by pasting in your own graphics
• Merge your theme with an existing one to use it as a base or to make small tweaks to someone else's theme
• Quickly preview your theme while you're constructing it
• Easily find the element you're looking for using ThemePark's smart organization, filtering, and inline hints
• Choose a way of organizing your theme elements that's right for you
• Save in-progress themes and easily see which areas you've already modified
• Edit resource files found inside of many applications
• Export your themes in 'dlta' or 'xscheme' format to share with the rest of the world

Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0

Yahoo!

freeware

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The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.

What sets Yahoo! Widget Engine apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of today's advanced graphics. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Windows XP and Mac OS X.

The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task. For the "skinning" crowd, Yahoo! Widget Engine is a dream come true. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle, your desktop, or the pants or skirt you have on that day.

CandyBar 2.5

Panic / The IconFactory

$12.95 shareware

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CandyBar makes it easy to customize Mac OS X's trash can and a host of other system icons. Replace the Dock's Finder icon, toolbar icons, media, drives, network icons and others. Most changes require a simple log-out and back in to apply and some only require the Dock to be restarted. CandyBar does the work so all you need to do is decide which icons look best on your desktop.

Replacing icons with CandyBar is as simple as dragging and dropping your favorite icon. Replace icons one at a time by hand-selecting your favorites or simply double click an existing iContainer to swap them all at once. Drag icons from the Finder or from Pixadex right into the user interface, and when you want to revert to your originals, CandyBar makes that a snap too.

Xounds 2.3

Unsanity LLC

$10.00 shareware

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Xounds is a haxie that brings back Appearance Sounds to Mac OS X. Tired of silence? Want audio feedback when you navigate through menus or drag your windows around? Xounds will convert your existing Mac OS 8 or 9 soundsets and make Mac OS X a better place to work in.

• Plays sounds when you work - when you pull down menus, drag windows, select menu items, empty trash, and more
• Assign freely which events you want to be voiced and which not
• Assign any AIFF sound to supported events
• Ability to import Mac OS 8 or 9 sound sets for use in Mac OS X
• Stereo or mono output - so you actually hear on what side you have pulled the menu down
• xclude list to remove certain applications from being affected by Xounds
• Easy to configure as it comes in usual Preference Pane form, accessible through System Preferences

Mighty Mouse 1.2

Unsanity LLC

$10.00 shareware

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Mighty Mouse allows you to customize your cursors with style - and it does so on the fly, without modifying any system files! Moreover, it allows you to customize all kinds of cursors available in the system - Arrow, I-Beam, Alias, Copy, Move and the Wait cursor. You can animate any cursor and import pre-made ones available at our website. Edit the cursors with the simplicity of copy-paste and drag-and-drop, then hit Apply, and you got it!

• Animate any of the system cursors (including the Arrow cursor)
• Use cursors of any size - smaller or larger than the default ones
• Magnify your existing cursors for easier accessibility
• Download and import cursors made by other users
• Create your own cursors and share them with others
• Instantly import cursors created for Windows XP

MacBoot 1.0

Infinity-to-the-Power-of-Infinity

donationware

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In Jaguar, the usual happy mac icon was replaced with a big 128 x 128 gray Apple icon. It turned out that it was possible to hack a system file to change it to something more personal. At first, the procedure was a bit difficult for the average user, but soon tools were created to aid in the process. MacBoot allows you to change the boot image to any 128 x 128 image, including those downloaded from InterfaceLIFT.