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iBook and best GUI solutions?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Hello all,
My wife is finally going to let me buy an iBook!
AaaAand, since I am addicted to the crack we all call customizing, I wanted to know how all you custo'ed iBookers out there are sexing your beautiful white slabs of storm trouper power? Yes... I mean your iBook, sheesh you perves... 
Lemme know.
R 
P.S. I am totally wanting to get a MacSkin that looks all clear save for the black parts of the storm trouper helmet 
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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for my iBook i use ss chosen aero and the bezel icons. milk is nice too. and neos is good contrast sometimes, like night time. 
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Sorry to rain on your parade, but MacSkinz really aren't happening anymore. They haven't done anything for months and there's no indication that they're going to start again. Check out the thread in the Mac Mod forum.
This is one reason why I'm not so into laptops and all-in-ones. They just don't have the expandability of a tower. Towers are all unique - no one has exactly the same thing as me.
That said, there are plenty of mods you can perform on an iBook. A lot of people have done simple paint jobs, while others have done the more ambitious task of removing all the white paint and going with a translucent colored finish. A simpler mod is to just make the little glowing Apple logo on the screen lid change colors. That's pretty easy to do by just removing the back of the screen, putting in a piece of colored paper, and putting it back. At least I think that's how you do it.
Anyway, this belongs in the Mac Modification forum, not the GUI Customization forum. If you want to go for a more interesting and custom user interface, go get ShapeShifter and download a few themes to try. But it sounds like you want to actually modify your hardware, and that belongs in Mac Modification.
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I use Max's Tiger theme or Milk most of the time, with Snow.E2 icons.
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I use Milk 2.0 on by 12" iBook G4.
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Cappucino Orbital is a nice fit to the not-so-white-interior of the iBook, and takes on the round elements like the ON/OFF button and the speakers.
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Originally posted by Gerrit Vanoppen:
Cappucino Orbital is a nice fit to the not-so-white-interior of the iBook, and takes on the round elements like the ON/OFF button and the speakers.
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Mmmh, Gerrit, say me, which program do you use to have such personalize contextual menus ?
Thank you
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Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:
Sorry to rain on your parade, but MacSkinz really aren't happening anymore. They haven't done anything for months and there's no indication that they're going to start again. Check out the thread in the Mac Mod forum.
That said, there are plenty of mods you can perform on an iBook. A lot of people have done simple paint jobs, while others have done the more ambitious task of removing all the white paint and going with a translucent colored finish. A simpler mod is to just make the little glowing Apple logo on the screen lid change colors. That's pretty easy to do by just removing the back of the screen, putting in a piece of colored paper, and putting it back. At least I think that's how you do it.
This can no longer be done with the newer ibooks. The plastic is no longer painted from within, it is colored.
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Originally posted by number_six:
Mmmh, Gerrit, say me, which program do you use to have such personalize contextual menus ?
The secret is revealed in dropmenu #2 : Butler 
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Originally posted by number_six:
which program do you use to have such personalize contextual menus ?
You can also use Unsanity FruitMenu. There are dozens of Contextual menu customizing apps available, and many are free.
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Originally posted by Gerrit Vanoppen:
The secret is revealed in dropmenu #2 : Butler
Butler ? I thought that Butler was only viewable (not sure it's english )i the menu item or in a mini dock, .... Well, By thinkink a little more deeply, mays be I was wrong to call it contextual menu, but I should call it dropmenu ?
Well anyway, Thank you,
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