The lack of deatil in your question overwhelms me. If you mean visually altering the appearance of the OS and its icons then yes there are tons of apps a ways to do that.
I was wondering around AppleInsider and I found this post!
Lol! Thats awesome.
Anyway, I mean visually, yes. I don't want shockwave -- I am meaning like can I type in a code or something in the ternimal and have some result in a graphical tweak to Mac OS X?
Sorry guys, my girlfriend was behind me when I posted this, and she didn't want me on the Mac. If you get my drift.
I know this is a bit off topic, but the sheer number of recent PC switchers calls for it.
I've said it once, I'll say it again...
To all the PC gamers out there who are new to Macs: Leave everything you've learned about computers at home. Leave the idea you had about computers at home. Leave the "gotta fix it" attitude at home. This is a whole new ball game.
I used to be a gamer myself, so I understand the desire to get the "most" out of your computer. You want to change it, personalize it, and tweak it. Well I'm sorry to disapoint you, but Mac users don't do that. At least not in that sense.
The Mac OS is smart enough to handle system optimization and disk fragmentation on it's own. All of the maintenance you had to do on a daily basis on Windows is no longer needed.
Macs are designed for productivity. Realizing and bringing creative ideas to life. Not to beat the reigning champion at the world gaming expo. It's just a completely different way of thinking. You don't worry about whether or not the project will come out the way you wanted it to. The computer just works. It does what you ask it to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Okay, now that my rant is over...
Yes, there are many applications that will allow you to change the GUI in OS X. Though I highly advise against it since all of them use hacks to do so, making the OS generally unstable, and in some cases incompatible with the next point update.
If you want to change how OS X looks, go to the System Preferences pane and click "Appearance". There are a number of options there.
I know this is a bit off topic, but the sheer number of recent PC switchers calls for it.
I've said it once, I'll say it again...
To all the PC gamers out there who are new to Macs: Leave everything you've learned about computers at home. Leave the idea you had about computers at home. Leave the "gotta fix it" attitude at home. This is a whole new ball game.
I used to be a gamer myself, so I understand the desire to get the "most" out of your computer. You want to change it, personalize it, and tweak it. Well I'm sorry to disapoint you, but Mac users don't do that. At least not in that sense.
The Mac OS is smart enough to handle system optimization and disk fragmentation on it's own. All of the maintenance you had to do on a daily basis on Windows is no longer needed.
Macs are designed for productivity. Realizing and bringing creative ideas to life. Not to beat the reigning champion at the world gaming expo. It's just a completely different way of thinking. You don't worry about whether or not the project will come out the way you wanted it to. The computer just works. It does what you ask it to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Okay, now that my rant is over...
Yes, there are many applications that will allow you to change the GUI in OS X. Though I highly advise against it since all of them use hacks to do so, making the OS generally unstable, and in some cases incompatible with the next point update.
If you want to change how OS X looks, go to the System Preferences pane and click "Appearance". There are a number of options there.
A lot of my desire to change the GUI comes from studying Linux, and my envy that they have a lot of eye candy (like Beryl and 3D Desktop...those would be some cool tweaks to play around with). I am actually not a gamer, , at least not for the PC (although I do enjoy RTS games -- and generally they don't require powerful machines to run).
At any course, everything else you said I will remember -- and I agree with the software isn't a good idea -- the only software I trust are ones that only mess with hidden features built into OS X Tiger (however, those tweaks are generally small, minor changes) -- but I still was wandering if you guys tweaked your OS like Linux people do, or if any of Mac users do.
Though I see your point, my initial point remains. Mac OS isn't for tweakers.
I've played around with various distributions of Linux. in fact my Windows PC is currently a dual boot machine running XP and SuSE 10.1. But my point is that while playing around and tweaking has it's place (A LOT of the best open-source software came from such playing around), Mac's aren't really the place to do it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying open source isn't for Macs. I'm just saying that a lot of that 3D stuff, like Beryl doesn't really serve a purpose other than eye candy. Sure, OS X has a lot of that too, but it's primary use is to show the user what's going on. Eye candy is the after thought, not the other way around.
Though I see your point, my initial point remains. Mac OS isn't for tweakers.
I've played around with various distributions of Linux. in fact my Windows PC is currently a dual boot machine running XP and SuSE 10.1. But my point is that while playing around and tweaking has it's place (A LOT of the best open-source software came from such playing around), Mac's aren't really the place to do it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying open source isn't for Macs. I'm just saying that a lot of that 3D stuff, like Beryl doesn't really serve a purpose other than eye candy. Sure, OS X has a lot of that too, but it's primary use is to show the user what's going on. Eye candy is the after thought, not the other way around.
Recent Linux distros and Vista suffer from this.
Although I think Vista surfers from it more then Linux.
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Oh boy.
Just wandering if there is such a thing.
Yes, please elaborate.
I was wondering around AppleInsider and I found this post!
Lol! Thats awesome.
Anyway, I mean visually, yes. I don't want shockwave -- I am meaning like can I type in a code or something in the ternimal and have some result in a graphical tweak to Mac OS X?
Sorry guys, my girlfriend was behind me when I posted this, and she didn't want me on the Mac. If you get my drift.
Just wandering if there is such a thing.
Go tweak your girlfriend's nipples.
I've said it once, I'll say it again...
To all the PC gamers out there who are new to Macs: Leave everything you've learned about computers at home. Leave the idea you had about computers at home. Leave the "gotta fix it" attitude at home. This is a whole new ball game.
I used to be a gamer myself, so I understand the desire to get the "most" out of your computer. You want to change it, personalize it, and tweak it. Well I'm sorry to disapoint you, but Mac users don't do that. At least not in that sense.
The Mac OS is smart enough to handle system optimization and disk fragmentation on it's own. All of the maintenance you had to do on a daily basis on Windows is no longer needed.
Macs are designed for productivity. Realizing and bringing creative ideas to life. Not to beat the reigning champion at the world gaming expo. It's just a completely different way of thinking. You don't worry about whether or not the project will come out the way you wanted it to. The computer just works. It does what you ask it to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Okay, now that my rant is over...
Yes, there are many applications that will allow you to change the GUI in OS X. Though I highly advise against it since all of them use hacks to do so, making the OS generally unstable, and in some cases incompatible with the next point update.
If you want to change how OS X looks, go to the System Preferences pane and click "Appearance". There are a number of options there.
I know this is a bit off topic, but the sheer number of recent PC switchers calls for it.
I've said it once, I'll say it again...
To all the PC gamers out there who are new to Macs: Leave everything you've learned about computers at home. Leave the idea you had about computers at home. Leave the "gotta fix it" attitude at home. This is a whole new ball game.
I used to be a gamer myself, so I understand the desire to get the "most" out of your computer. You want to change it, personalize it, and tweak it. Well I'm sorry to disapoint you, but Mac users don't do that. At least not in that sense.
The Mac OS is smart enough to handle system optimization and disk fragmentation on it's own. All of the maintenance you had to do on a daily basis on Windows is no longer needed.
Macs are designed for productivity. Realizing and bringing creative ideas to life. Not to beat the reigning champion at the world gaming expo. It's just a completely different way of thinking. You don't worry about whether or not the project will come out the way you wanted it to. The computer just works. It does what you ask it to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Okay, now that my rant is over...
Yes, there are many applications that will allow you to change the GUI in OS X. Though I highly advise against it since all of them use hacks to do so, making the OS generally unstable, and in some cases incompatible with the next point update.
If you want to change how OS X looks, go to the System Preferences pane and click "Appearance". There are a number of options there.
A lot of my desire to change the GUI comes from studying Linux, and my envy that they have a lot of eye candy (like Beryl and 3D Desktop...those would be some cool tweaks to play around with). I am actually not a gamer,
At any course, everything else you said I will remember -- and I agree with the software isn't a good idea -- the only software I trust are ones that only mess with hidden features built into OS X Tiger (however, those tweaks are generally small, minor changes) -- but I still was wandering if you guys tweaked your OS like Linux people do, or if any of Mac users do.
I've played around with various distributions of Linux. in fact my Windows PC is currently a dual boot machine running XP and SuSE 10.1. But my point is that while playing around and tweaking has it's place (A LOT of the best open-source software came from such playing around), Mac's aren't really the place to do it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying open source isn't for Macs. I'm just saying that a lot of that 3D stuff, like Beryl doesn't really serve a purpose other than eye candy. Sure, OS X has a lot of that too, but it's primary use is to show the user what's going on. Eye candy is the after thought, not the other way around.
Recent Linux distros and Vista suffer from this.
Though I see your point, my initial point remains. Mac OS isn't for tweakers.
I've played around with various distributions of Linux. in fact my Windows PC is currently a dual boot machine running XP and SuSE 10.1. But my point is that while playing around and tweaking has it's place (A LOT of the best open-source software came from such playing around), Mac's aren't really the place to do it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying open source isn't for Macs. I'm just saying that a lot of that 3D stuff, like Beryl doesn't really serve a purpose other than eye candy. Sure, OS X has a lot of that too, but it's primary use is to show the user what's going on. Eye candy is the after thought, not the other way around.
Recent Linux distros and Vista suffer from this.
Although I think Vista surfers from it more then Linux.