CandyBar 3 available now

I am more than happy to pay for CandyBar 3, and to be honest I probably won't even use the dock features unless something good comes along. The 2D variant that can be easily applied with the DockDoctor widget is much easier to see. In terms of the cost of version 3, you need to remember that Apple made the changes that required such a major upgrade to CandyBar. The people programming the new version basically used the ideas of the pre-leopard versions to construct what is essentially a comletely new program. It will evolve and get better, just as the original version evolved - and then Pixadex.

Samuel,
It looks like Iconfactory is updating a bunch of the older releases to be 512/Leopard compatible. Check out these releases that have been updated to include bigger icons and dock support: http://iconfactory.com/search/freeware/dock. Their main page also mentions that all of the Futurama icon sets have been updated for CandyBar 3, to go along with the new set in honor of the movie.

Samuel,
It looks like Iconfactory is updating a bunch of the older releases to be 512/Leopard compatible. Check out these releases that have been updated to include bigger icons and dock support: http://iconfactory.com/search/freeware/dock. Their main page also mentions that all of the Futurama icon sets have been updated for CandyBar 3, to go along with the new set in honor of the movie.

Is it just me or has Candybar made the menubar opaque? I'm sure my menubar was it's usual translucent-self earlier today and now after upgrading to candybar3 I've noticed the menubar is opaque (which is great, because i prefer it that way)

Todd: you have overlooked the new "Pixadex" part of CandyBar. It's an entirely new-to-CandyBar, full featured icon organizer -- like iPhoto for your icons, including giant 512x512 Leopard ones. Now you can have all of your icons in one convenient, searchable place, you can create smart libraries of icons, you can instantly "Icon Look" an icon to see all of its sizes, you can import and export your icons into a variety of graphic formats, etc. This is a huge, new feature, that previously sold for $18 separately.

I totally understand that a lot of CandyBar users might feel like they don't need an icon organizer -- but I'm fairly confident that once you start to use the two together in the application, you'll wonder how you lived without it before. :)

Good lord, $24 for an upgrade to a $29 dollar app? It isn't THAT much of a feature jump from CandyBar 2. All that's really different is the UI (which is nice, but not exactly something that I benefit from) and the addition of Dock themes, which as others pointed out seems a bit hacked on.

Yeah the price is definitely ticking me off even though you get all the other programs in there and the slick new interface. I just wanted a quick way to change my icons they should have offered a better update price its like I'm buying the program all over again actually I'm paying more this time around... I think I'll give LiteIcon 1.3 a try... I do like Candybar though and will probably eventually upgrade it once I blow off the initial sticker shock.

Oh - and for good Mac icons, check out Jonas Rask (http://jonas.seph.ws/), the forums for MacThemes 2.0 (http://macthemes2.net/forum/) and Michael's Mac (http://www.michaelsmac.com/).

At last! The new interface is super-slick and way easier to use. As a devout CandyBar 2 user, I was slightly taken aback at that steep upgrade price. But I've never used Pixadex, and I'm glad that it's included now, because it's a very good app! Also, you're getting a dock-changer as well. So that's three programs in one. Not a bad deal... I haven't had any of the bug problems that are plaguing some other users. This is a definite upgrade!

Anyone waiting for a Shapeshifter upgrade (which will most likely come at a price) is foolish. The mediocre themes created over the last few years won't even work with Leopard. So not only will you spend the money on the Shapeshifter update, but you won't have many themes to choose from.
Themes on OSX are dead. Period. They're too hard to make, and their are very few creative designers out there who can also code the theme with ThemePark.
As far as Candybar goes, I predict that this will set records for piracy. It's a great app, but there's just something about charging more than $15 to $20 that ticks people off. I have no idea why.