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Product Description:
ShapeShifter is a revolutionary new product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes'. We're not talking about just desktop backgrounds and icons here, we're talking about everything - the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, absolutely everything. You don't wear the same clothes everyday, your house doesn't look exactly like your neighbor's - why should the computing interface you use everyday be any different. You personalize your physical workspace to suit your tastes and whims, so why not your Mac?
With ShapeShifter, you can:
With ShapeShifter, you can:
- Change the overall appearance of your operating system safely, quickly, and reliably;
- Change the appearance of individual apps to match your theme and your mood;
- Experience things that haven't been possible with Mac themes before;
- Quickly preview themes without actually applying them;
- Install different themes for different users;
- Add and remove themes effortlessly.
What's new in this version:
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Features
- ShapeShifter's Download tab now has a shiny indicator that lights up when new themes are available for download.
- guiTweak now allows you to manually set colors in any theme. For each color present in a theme, you can change them to the color of your choosing, let Core Image set them, or remove them from the theme. You can use this to easily turn off stuff like Mail list background or Dock customization, or to add it to a theme that doesn't have it. You can also tweak text colors after hue shifting a theme.
- You can now type the name of a theme to select it (Tiger only).
- ShapeShifter can now optionally notify you when a new version is available.
- "Growl" (if present) will be used to indicate that themes were applied successfully when the normal indicator sheet has been turned off.
- Completely revamped the app skin compatibility system. ShapeShifter is now much smarter about how it disables app skins when a new version of a skinned application has been released.
- Minor improvements in menu drawing performance.
- Minor improvements in application launch speed when a theme is applied.
- Includes Smart Crash Reports 1.0.2. New Theme Capabilities
- Dark themes with light text colors are much more usable within Carbon apps such as Photoshop.
- ShapeShifter now honors the Aqua/Graphite setting in menu highlights for themes that were designed to differentiate between the two.
- DVD Player can now use custom application skins.
- guiTweak now works properly on "pct" images. Bug Fixes
- Window titlebar widgets of Panther themes used in Tiger no longer have green fringes.
- Finder desktop and icon view label colors are properly themed again in Tiger. Selected desktop icon labels no longer use the selected menu text color when a color is not explicitely set in the theme.
- Application skins created for a version of iTunes earlier than 5.0 will not be used if the installed version of iTunes is 5.0 or higher. And vice versa.
- Finder windows no longer occasionally draw with a completely black background.
- Resolved an issue that caused excessive logging from some Carbon applications, and that caused text within Carbon bevel buttons, popup buttons, and pushbuttons to display incorrectly (Eudora, Ircle).
- Resolved an issue that could cause small visual glitches in certain apps (like Proteus, when using themes that include patterns larger than 8x8 pixels).
- The System Preferences Dock icon is no longer badged with the ShapeShifter icon at inappropriate times.
- Quitting guiTweak with an unsaved tweak, choosing to save the tweak, and then cancelling the save no longer prevents guiTweak from being quittable thereafter.
- Saving a guiTweak document by closing the document and then choosing to save from the sheet no longer results in a crash.
- Resolved an issue that could cause crashes when using themes that don't include enhanced menu customization.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
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Not safe as Shapeshifter but, if you got sick of Leopard's look, free alternative - Version: 2.5, 3/20/2009 01:56PM PST
Ilgaz
I saw this URL on another download site
http://magnifiqueapp.com/
It does what shapeshifter does in file overwriting (with backup of course) way.
IMHO Unsanity should have released a Leopard edition without APE exactly. Well, some people have done it.
Shapeshifter's method is still the safest and way more reliable. If you keep running Tiger, there is no reason to give up.
It seems we lost shapeshifter thanks to the anti ape trolls and jealous developers. Hopefully I will be proved wrong but it seems so...
http://magnifiqueapp.com/
It does what shapeshifter does in file overwriting (with backup of course) way.
IMHO Unsanity should have released a Leopard edition without APE exactly. Well, some people have done it.
Shapeshifter's method is still the safest and way more reliable. If you keep running Tiger, there is no reason to give up.
It seems we lost shapeshifter thanks to the anti ape trolls and jealous developers. Hopefully I will be proved wrong but it seems so...
4 apps to exclude - Version: 2.5, 7/27/2008 06:19AM PST
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dsilvan
Here are 4 apps I've found which have problems booting so you should add them to your Shapeshifter Exclude List:
Bittorrent
Minefield (Firefox 3.x beta)
Skitch
Toast Titanium 9
Bittorrent
Minefield (Firefox 3.x beta)
Skitch
Toast Titanium 9
Think I'm going to pay again for what ended up being a reason to do a complete reinstall ? H E double hockey sticks no ! Lousy crashmaster program that isn't supported ! Dump that junk !