Aqua-Soft ForumsHi all. i'm EXTREMELY new to the board. I was wondering how I start skinning my windows to look like a mac? With the 'finder' and address book, with the 'colored' 3 buttons on the left...could someone please help?
I'm Very Lost
For the skins:
Pre XP - WindowBlinds
XP - Style XP
They are shareware (try it and buy it), or by means which are not allowed to talk about here.
Finder, 2 ways:
Look for a program called Y'z Toolbar and it converts the toolbar in explorer to look like Mac.
Get a program to emulate Finder, there are a few, I can't think of the names. Remembered: Felix
Address Book:
Search for Address Book on these forums and you'll find a perfect clone.
Most of the stuff that you are looking for can be found in the Search feature (in the "toolbar" area of the page). People will get angry if you post topics that can be answered by searching first.
If anything that I explained here does not make sense, it has been discussed numberous times, use the search. Don't forget to change the time frame from Past 30 Days to Anytime and After to Before to get all topics.
Edit: Clarification
this thread was designed for you: http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/index.php?s...hl=list+of+mods
skinning windows: use the uxtheme patch to avoid buying shareware.
if you want the buttons on the left, you have several options.
1. use shellwm
2. use windowblinds (shareware)
Yeah, dreamz' (should I use "'s"?) has a better post. I totally forgot about the uxtheme patch. :shy:
Originally posted by wizard@Jan 18 2004, 08:18 PMYeah, dreamz' (should I use "'s"?) has a better post. I totally forgot about the uxtheme patch. :shy:
no 's since it's not possessive. 
in any case, if you want the patch, i have it. pm me and i'll email it to you.
I didn't catch it until I read it just now. I mean dreamz' post. But the... arg, I mean it would... I'm confused. 
This was just to have closure to my segment, otherwise it would be weird.
Good luck UPallnight!
isn't Y'z Dock the same as ObjectDock in WindowBlinds4?
Originally posted by mrUPallnite@Jan 18 2004, 08:45 PMisn't Y'z Dock the same as ObjectDock in WindowBlinds4?
windowblinds is the program that skins your desktop. is objectdock part of windowblinds? they're made by the same company, but i didn't know they were bundled.
in any case, objectdock and y'z dock (and mobydock) are docks, which is the strip of icons that magnify during mouseovers. there are subtle differences, but unfortunately, y'z dock is no longer in development and distribution is not allowed.
Originally posted by dreamz@Jan 18 2004, 09:47 PMy'z dock is no longer in development and distribution is not allowed.
but its still the best one, and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside when I use it 
Warm and Fuzzy???..... 
Anyway, remember to get Flykites System Files, they are very good
And I just noticed that there are programs with my name O_o
Flyakite is amember here that has made a fantasic mod that will change all the icons, avi's and such to make your Windows machine look like a Mac. Search for Flyakite's System Files, or something like that. It is a heafty download though, around a hundred megabytes.
So is his bundle all I would need or should I apply more applications, skins, etc?
All his thing includes is system files (thats actually a lot)
TD Panther 4.0 is the best VS ("skin") if you're looking to strictly emulate Panther
Some ported Mac themes to msstyles:
- Snow Panther by StefanKa
- anything from KoL's site (Aluminum Alloy, Milk Redux, iTunes...)
- Playboy's GuiPod
It fairly much changes the look of the default window interface. Which means windows no longer starts up looking ugly again. :6
However, it doesn't imply that you don't need additional skin files. It just means that without the skins, windows is no longer as :puke: as before.
Keith is right. There are many ways to emulate the Mac look. Try around. The programs available gives you more flexibility in getting what you want. The transformation packs are something more permanent.
Hope that helps. 
it does, silencedge - thank you very much
Originally posted by wizard@Jan 19 2004, 02:07 PMSearch for Flyakite's System Files, or something like that. It is a heafty download though, around a hundred megabytes.
don't scare the **** like that... it's only about 28 mb.
Originally posted by wookietv@Jan 19 2004, 03:07 PMdon't scare the **** like that... it's only about 28 mb.
:shy:
Whoops. Honest error.
Ok. We really need a wiki for A-S.
There are two main theme managers:
Windowblinds
-Many features
-Limited trial version
-Not as many mac-related styles, usually themes are ported to msstyle first (stylexp)
StyleXP
-Not as many features as windowblinds, more simple
-Limited trial version
-More themes, easier to find
I use stylexp
DOCKS
Yz's
-Developement was discontinued, still very possible to find on the internet
-The best emulation of the mac OSX dock, period
-Smoothest motion, lowest (maybe) system resource usage
-Lots of great docklets over at http://www.dockex.com/
-FREE
Objectdock
-Not free, trial version is available
-Pretty smooth, can be used as a "task bar" since windows minimize to it
-Docklets can be found but are not as many as yz's
Then there is mobydock, which I know nothing about. I have heard its the smoothest, but the rendering on the icons plain sucks (the icons are blurry and indistinct). There are no docklets for mobydock.
Themes and Themers: (No Particular order)
TD 4 by Threedrives
-Pretty much 1:1 with OSX 10.3
-Can be found on these boards
That probably gives you a good enough idea
Threedrives is a veteran themer and has a good reputation here
Stefanka and his PantherS theme
-Not based on any theme other than panther, but done all in black white and silver
-Can be found on these boards
Stefanka is new to theming but has major skill
KoL and his mad amounts of themes
-Can be found at http://studiotwentyeight.com/
I think KoL has made more themes than anyone on these boards (please correct me if I am wrong) He is usually the first one to port the newest visual style for Macs
Crni and his objectbar skills
-Makes 1:1 ports for objectbar
-Master at a very neat program called samurize. Does lots of ports from konfabulator.
Check out his website right here.
His work can be found on these boards as well.
Programmers and Script writers (No Particular order)
Judge
-Made the desktopweatherXML script and config for samurize, posts on these boards
Tadis
-Has helped me multiple times with my samurize configs, very good at writing .vbs scripts for doing things like ejecting cds and killing programs
Alilm
-15 year old from Brighton, UK. Amazing at programming applications
-Website is here
--Currently working on a iMail clone, a Safari clone and more
Jib
-Wrote the famous address book clone, very nice program, can be found on these boards
-Is working on a safari clone with Pixelmatrix
Pixelmatrix
-Working on a safari clone with jib
Siwu
-Creator of iex, a port of exposé
-Creator of iblend
--Currently rewriting iex, its looking very good
All his work can be found on these boards
Enhanced
-Creator of Splash Panel
-Has his own website, very professional! Right here!
-Working on an amazing app called ePortal
Pogz
-Creator of 3r-1c, a program that emulates the volume up/down bezel in OSX
-Website here
I know I left out many people, please feel free to add your own posts to the list
Originally posted by juno@Jan 19 2004, 09:25 PM
Then there is mobydock, which I know nothing about. I have heard its the smoothest, but the rendering on the icons plain sucks (the icons are blurry and indistinct). There are no docklets for mobydock.
its not that Mobydock's icon rendering sucks, thats how it was made, we have all been through this many and many of times, but the real dock has a tiny bit of this blur rendering on them, some people can notice it some cannot, on mobydock sometimes it turns out too blurry on someones graphics acard, but turns out perfectly and gives a nice effect on other people
so it all depoends
i love it personally
-bolero
You forgot Playboy and his famous GuiPod! Duh! :banging:
also: who needs StyleXP when you can use the Replacer cmd script to replace the original uxtheme.dll in %root%:\%windir%\system32\ with modded uxtheme.dll (so that you can use visual styles (mssyles))
but anyway...whoa! Pin me! (pin that exhaustive list)