Everyone's favorite duck-icon sporting graphic designer is more than a pretty icon of a face, he helps make the rest of your programs look good too. Adam Betts regularly posts modifications or add-ons to various pieces of Mac software to his blog, and although each one is cool enough to warrant a post of its own, I thought I'd be nice to you all and compile some of my favorites into one mega-post. First off we have a simple interface tweak that goes a long way to unifying the look of your system. Adam's new QuickTime Plugin Controller replaces the old icky Aqua bubble quicktime plugin interface with a sleek platinum/unified/post-brushed metal look.
Next are two replacement icons; one for a certain flammable fox, the other for a Preview alternative. The Firefox icon touchup fixes dock weight issues (how close it is to the other icons) as well as making the whole package a bit smoother.
The Xee replacement set actually contains replacements for both the actual application icon as well as the status bar. Xee is a replacement for Preview and available for free download.
Finally, we have the 9.3% complete interface-lift for Google Earth. This package will replace the application icon as well as modify certain UI elements such as toolbar icons and the sidebar to make them more Mac-like.
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8-22-2006 @ 8:13AM
Niclas said...
This is great, especially the Quicktime replacements. To bad I can't install them tho. I can't seem to find the file "QuickTimeComponents.component". Anyone have the same problem? (MacOSX 10.4.7, Quicktime 7.1.2, MacBook)
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8-22-2006 @ 9:33AM
Nice Guy said...
I have made my own mod for NetNewsWire replacing the ugly icons with a few of the icons from Shiira 2.0b. I also modded the sidebar to use a brighter favicon-globe and replaced flags with hearts! :)
http://bildr.no/view/8486
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8-22-2006 @ 9:45AM
iwit said...
@ Niclas, Open your Macintosh HD > System (Don't go directly to Library, that's a different library) > Library > Quicktime > QuickTimeComponents.component (show package contents) > Contents > Resources. And there it is. (It's probably locked so you can't edit it though, so you first have to set the Resources folder to read and write)
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8-22-2006 @ 9:51AM
dav said...
No problem here (Same Specs)
Thanks a ton!
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8-22-2006 @ 10:32AM
Niclas said...
thanks iwit! It worked :)
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