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It isn't leopard. Look at the dock. It extends over the ammount of icons he has and there is no "mirror" on it.
I took the simple way out. It's just a GUI modification using Style XP, Object Dock, and Paint Shop Pro. Once you get Style XP go pick up the Tiger theme from interfacelift.com. Get object dock, get a Mac icon package anywhere. Stick all that together. Last but not least find your favourite Mac wallpaper (I like Panther's) and then in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop apply a gaussian blur effect on a black line along the top of the image to give the impression of a taskbar shadow (since Windows taskbars don't cast shadows). If you want to give it that extra Mac touch then go to the control panel and pick the black Windows mouse cursor. So to recap:
1. Get Style XP and Tiger theme for XP (www.interfacelift.com)
2. Get Object Dock and Mac Icons (www.stardock.com)
3. Find a Mac wallpaper and paint the shadow on
4. Change your cursor
There you go. A sad Mac-wannabe PC. =) I've had it like this for a year. I'm getting my Macbook in 2 days and I'll be glad to have the real thing, but the imitation sure makes XP look a lot better.
From my iBook G4 (& checking to see if I get the size right...)
I want that, please?
No, you're talking about different pics, but more than that JDT's Finder is the Tiger version of the Finder....so he's definitely NOT running Leopard. Plus, the Dock is all wrong (not just the reflection).
Well you quoted appleintelrock, who quoted joeship34a, who quoted conshok. therefore i assumed we were talking about conshok's picture.
It's an app you download from alwin troost here:
http://www.alwintroost.nl/content/photodesktop/home.xml
It's pretty good. I used to just have 4 or 5 along the bottom, now I have loads.
I've attached another quick desktop to show what it looks like using some other random photos I took.
To turn it on and off simply click on the PhotoDesktop icon in the menubar and untick "Activate PhotoDesktop".
I've not had a different wallpaper from the standard Apple ones for some time now, but after getting a new camera, getting into photography and taking some shots while on holiday I thought I'd start using my own photographs as wallpaper again.
This one is taken while on holiday in Weymouth, UK of a sunset. It's not my best sunset picture I took, but I like it.
I would normally have 20-odd small "photodesktop" photos going all the way around my desktop of my friends and family (I'm going to London soon so wanted pics of everyone on my desktop) but being as I didn't want to paste those photos here, I temporarily disabled Photodesktop for this screenshot.
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what is that ical icon in the menubar?
It is MenuCalendarClock, basically lets you bring a quick drop-down of this months calendar and jump straight to dates, very handy. Linux already has it, I really can't understand why this isn't a feature of iCal, but this little program is worth it.
http://www.objectpark.net/
Just a few I've got on rotation.
Could I get a link for the top-right wallpaper? It's quite calming.
Greetings from Adriana Lima and Psychopulse!
I need that.
I dug into my Cosmos screensaver for that one.
Just a question, do all those little progs hog your memory? I downloaded yahoo widgets awhile ago and everything ran so much slower
To be honest yes it will a little. But I don't actually notice it. If I deactivated it all and ran my Mac normal I'd doubt I'd really notice better performance, which is why they are still active. Anything that starts to slow my computers down I take off.
I'm pleasantly surprised at the iMac, handles things like that brilliantly and doesn't flinch, its only 2Gb RAM so nothing too spectacular.
My PowerBook didn't do too bad either, though it eventually started to show some slight memory hogginess, but still not too bad.
Ahh, wow. Is it just me or is this month flying by?!
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Accommodates nicely with my white MacBook.
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Accommodates nicely with my white MacBook.