iChat Borderless mod

We're a little late picking up on this one, but that doesn't make it any less cool: a Backpack user I know only as 'myobie' has posted a small installer called iChat Borderless that modifies the appearance of iChat to give it a more updated, near-Unified look. Fortunately, it downloads as a simple disk image with an installer that does all the heavy lifting for you, and it should look good on Mac OS X 10.4, 10.3 and even 10.2.

On my 10.4.9 system though, I get the borderless look, but brushed metal is still around, whereas iChat Borderless's screenshots clearly show the dark grey Unified look. Anyone else care to chime in?

Personally, I still prefer the old iChat mod that Dave Caolo found last summer. Sadly, the post at MacThemes Forums where this mod apparently lived exists no longer. Still, if the Leopard delay means you're jonesing that much worse for an update to iChat's aging UI, iChat Borderless should tide you over.

Thanks, Shain.

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Source: http://myobie.backpackit.com/pub/666902

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msr

I like this a lot. I wish they'd make an iLife '05 Borderless now. I really hate the huge borders in those apps...

April 25 2007 at 10:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pat

the installer in the post has borders on the sides.

the nib i posted doesn't have borders on the sides.

April 25 2007 at 6:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ZipperSeven

If you're looking to apply this style simply, I'd recommend just using Uno. Most of the other solutions listed, (by sleepwalkers, mostly) require Unsanity's Shapeshifter (to apply a whole guikit theme), while Uno will just give you the whole unified un-metalled look system-wide.

April 25 2007 at 6:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pat

i released the first ichat borderless mod 1 year ago on my site/macthemesforums

http://patrickyan.net/ul/ichat.zip

April 25 2007 at 6:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ahmad

yeah, but you can't do anything with the borderless version we have now.

April 25 2007 at 6:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jim C.

Finder Borderless? That's built-in.

Open a Finder window and click on the little, clear, Tic-Tac shaped button in the upper right corner of the window. POOF! No borders! :-)

April 25 2007 at 3:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua

Sweet. Now all we need is something called Finder Borderless.

April 25 2007 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jack Curry

I used UNO with this and it comes out looking exactly the same as the screenshots.

April 25 2007 at 2:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tim Dorr

@Donald

I'm not sure, but Apple does have some testing screennames for screen captures that I've tracked down and added to my buddy list. Every few months I see one of them sign on :D

April 25 2007 at 2:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Donald Burr

What is this "Apple Video Test Bot" thing?

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