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How can OS X be customised?
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<blockquote data-quote="PowerBookG4" data-source="post: 625393" data-attributes="member: 8394"><p>You can reorder the dock, make it auto hide, magnification etc. You can choose for it to be clear or colored, reflective or not reflective, etc. There are hundreds of programs (menumeters, weather snitch, etc.) that put things in the menu bar to keep the user informed. You can have different programs for different spaces so that the user is always organized. Some stupid things include whether or not the close zoom and minimize buttons are colored for grey, what the order of the menu bar is in, and the clock is analog or digital, those kinds of things.</p><p></p><p>Like windows you can assign sounds to certain events.</p><p></p><p>You are correct when you say you can add colors to the labels finder items. You can choose red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, or grey.</p><p></p><p>You can also change the icon size on the desktop which is pretty awesome, I hated having small icons. I love huge ones. Not because I can't see, because I can, just how the larger icon looks on the desktop is something I really like.</p><p></p><p>You can also change the way your want to view your stacks (grid, fan, list), and if you want to get creative with terminal, date modification, and some icons you find on the internet, you can even create some cool drawer like icons on them. </p><p></p><p>With programs like Onyx (all os 10) and shapeshifter (pre 10.5 for now) you can change a lot more. Onyx gives you control of special features of the OS that you would have needed terminal to change, and shape shifter allows you to change your theme.</p><p></p><p>Programs like candybar allow you to change your system icons. So if you change lets say how you want your foler icons to appear they will change system wide, not just that particular folder. With out candy bar you can change any icon you want, easily right in finder, your hard drive, folders, applications, disk images, etc. These icons can be found on interfacelift.com where you can also find modifications for windows which might be helpful for your paper. </p><p></p><p>If you have any other questions let us know. good luck comparing the two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PowerBookG4, post: 625393, member: 8394"] You can reorder the dock, make it auto hide, magnification etc. You can choose for it to be clear or colored, reflective or not reflective, etc. There are hundreds of programs (menumeters, weather snitch, etc.) that put things in the menu bar to keep the user informed. You can have different programs for different spaces so that the user is always organized. Some stupid things include whether or not the close zoom and minimize buttons are colored for grey, what the order of the menu bar is in, and the clock is analog or digital, those kinds of things. Like windows you can assign sounds to certain events. You are correct when you say you can add colors to the labels finder items. You can choose red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, or grey. You can also change the icon size on the desktop which is pretty awesome, I hated having small icons. I love huge ones. Not because I can't see, because I can, just how the larger icon looks on the desktop is something I really like. You can also change the way your want to view your stacks (grid, fan, list), and if you want to get creative with terminal, date modification, and some icons you find on the internet, you can even create some cool drawer like icons on them. With programs like Onyx (all os 10) and shapeshifter (pre 10.5 for now) you can change a lot more. Onyx gives you control of special features of the OS that you would have needed terminal to change, and shape shifter allows you to change your theme. Programs like candybar allow you to change your system icons. So if you change lets say how you want your foler icons to appear they will change system wide, not just that particular folder. With out candy bar you can change any icon you want, easily right in finder, your hard drive, folders, applications, disk images, etc. These icons can be found on interfacelift.com where you can also find modifications for windows which might be helpful for your paper. If you have any other questions let us know. good luck comparing the two. [/QUOTE]
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