---remake:: Make Windows look like Mac ---
This guide is okay...
It needs to be more extensive. There are alot more things you should do if you want a complete XP to OS X transformation.
Here is a screenshot of my desktop
http://www.osx-e.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=2808&c=507
Here is a good guide
http://www.osx-e.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2345
and here is a good guide for Firefox to safari
http://www.osx-e.com/articles/a_safarifox_guide.html
Firefox is alot better to skin and it comes out looking like Safari RSS more than Internet explorer. A good Mail program is Thunderbird by Mozilla. It can be skinned perfectly to look like mail.
Trillian is also not a good iChat clone. It can make the buddy list look like iChat but the message windows look nothing like iChat. I would suggest Miranda IM. It takes a little learning but after your done skinning you can make Miranda look like iChat or Adium, and it also gives you the option of skinning the message window so you will be able have the previously iChat only chat bubbles.
Nexplorer is also not the best finder replacement. I would suggest FindeXer to add the finder sidebar to your existing Explorer. If you are going to go that route I would also suggest Getting Styler with some OS X toolbars for styler.
Spotlight is available in XP. Although it is not perfect, it is a good clone. Macsearch is a good clone because it can be used with objectbar so when you press the spotlight button on the bar it will popup like in the real OS X.
I also prefer RKLauncher because it behaves more like the real dock than ObjectDock. If you do get RKLauncher I suggest you get the latest build 275 because it fixes alot of bugs from the 0.4 beta release.
ok. ill change the guide to what is better!
if anyone sees anything that might be wrong, or think there is something better, then reply here and ill change it! i want to make this perfect
This guide is okay...It needs to be more extensive. There are alot more things you should do if you want a complete XP to OS X transformation.
Here is a screenshot of my desktop
http://www.osx-e.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=2808&c=507
Here is a good guide
http://www.osx-e.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2345
and here is a good guide for Firefox to safari
what is the browser that you use in your ss? that is a nice brush skin.
he used firefox. details are above in my post now to get that skin
i have a lot of macs, and hers a ss of my macbook's about my mac
The tutorial on smoothing fonts should also be included, smoothing Aquabase is pretty much critical in getting the fonts to look somewhat near to OS X fonts. Cleartype just don't cut it ![]()
@krazypsyco28 Did you ask me or Nylock if you could use parts of our guides?
It's always a good Idea to ask if your going to use a part of someones guide
You should also link to all the software.
That'd be very helpful for me.
Chad0487, that's a gorgeous looking desktop; but I'm wondering, what is the lowest system requirements for this extremely good Mac OS X look-a-like?
I'm asking as my parents PC has a 256 mb, and my father is a big Mac fan - more so than me, even though I am; and I would love to make the PC look like a Mac.
yeah i like it tooo....no to mention this is MY FREAKING GUIDE!!!!!!! i hate ppl who dont ask =
whats with all these guides popping up....you guys do realise that when you make these guides they dont stay up to date for very long...plus its a tad confusing/annoying to someone new to modding when theyve got to scroll through three or more guides to get their PC how they want.....the best people to make a guide are the moderators as theyre the ones more experianced in all this
Chad0487, that's a gorgeous looking desktop; but I'm wondering, what is the lowest system requirements for this extremely good Mac OS X look-a-like?I'm asking as my parents PC has a 256 mb, and my father is a big Mac fan - more so than me, even though I am; and I would love to make the PC look like a Mac.
512 MB is more standard now, and that's what I'd recommend as a minimum requirement.
yeah i like it tooo....no to mention this is MY FREAKING GUIDE!!!!!!! i hate ppl who dont ask =
Hmm, I'm looking at your guide, and your thread was made in early January. There are word-for-word similarities, but his was posted first by several months. Care to explain?
-NC
yes, i would love to explain. you see, i had opened a forums of my own, www.iForum.tk, and at the time i had no knowledge of aqua-soft, and i guess it was leaked from my Forums. if you go to my site, you will find it....
and about the guy who posted it, he was a companion of mine who i knew for years, but he was banned from my site and i never saw or talked to him again....
what really makes me angry is that he didnt ask to repost it...
to make a long story short this is my guide, and this guy is a rulebreaker....(not saying that im an angel neither...)
I remember that...you spammed it all over the place. <_< Now who is the rule breaker?
I received a PM from the creator of this thread explaining the circumstances, and everything has been cleared up to my satisfaction. See the first post of this thread for more explanation.
//Thread Closed
-NC
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