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Heavy Fluid · Apr 25, 2007, 04:13 PM

Hello everyone, I am pretty new to customizing and was wondering what else I could do to my iMac G5.

So far, I have changed the icons with Candy Bar, messed around with themes and Shapeshifter (trial), installed Clear Dock, downloaded a ton of wallpapers and icons from Interfacelift, and put a bunch of themes on Firefox.

What else can I tweak? Thanks for any advice and especially links.

eyevaan · Apr 25, 2007, 04:32 PM

cross referencing another site sorry but someone already did the writing...

here is another
welcome to the obsession

Heavy Fluid · Apr 25, 2007, 04:48 PM

Sweet, thanks for the link, I just checked out some of the stuff, and it looks like I can do most of that stuff.

As for the obsession, I spent about 2 hours today going through all of the icons that I downloaded, and deciding which ones I wanted to use in CandyBar. Also, it says that you have to pay for CandyBar, but I found a version on the net for free. It didn't say anything about a trial version, and is from a reputable site, not a torrent or anything like that. I do get some sort of an error that says I need to upgrade something, but I just ignore it.

digitaljames · Apr 25, 2007, 05:28 PM

There is no free version of Candybar...whatever you have is illegal, regardless of the site.

Heavy Fluid · Apr 25, 2007, 06:42 PM

Really? I did a Google search for "free candybar for Mac" without the quotes, and I found it at Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com

digitaljames · Apr 25, 2007, 07:41 PM

You've downloaded a trial...if that's where you got it from. Free to download does not equal free to keep.....

Heavy Fluid · Apr 25, 2007, 07:45 PM

Dangit. So when it runs out, do my icons magically change back to the original ones? I know that you can manually change some of them, but not ones like the trash can, finder, etc.

digitaljames · Apr 25, 2007, 07:51 PM

I have no idea.....

Heavy Fluid · Apr 25, 2007, 07:55 PM

I read on the web that the trial is just a limited version of the full program. I pretty much did everything I wanted just using the trial. I might buy it, I don't know. I will see if anything happens or if it quits working.

Thanks for your help.

doccus · Apr 25, 2007, 08:08 PM

The icons will stay however they were the last time you used it before the trial runs out..
if you don't want to pay for it make sure theyre a set you can live with

Heavy Fluid · Apr 25, 2007, 08:15 PM

I can live with the iCal icon I found that doesn't have the birthdate of iCal on it permanently.