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Windowblinds for Mac?
Posted by: BookWorm on 2011-08-03 14:46:17 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If eX Pee locks up again I'm going to seriously consider hunting down Bill Gates and beating him with my ThinkPad. For now, I'm thinking about getting a Pismo. I've heard Macs rarely crash, and that Mac OS is even more stable than OS/2. It also looks better than eX Pee. What doesn't? I'm used to using Mac OS clones on my 8 bit classics, so I might leave Mac OS 9 with the standard look, but saying OS X isn't as ugly as XP is not necisarily a compliment. Is there a version of Windowblinds, or a similar program, for any version of Mac OS? Where do I get it? Using XP with Windowblinds makes XP without Windowblinds look as stable as Mac OS. Are there any problems with using the Mac equivalent?
Posted by: Byrd on 2011-08-03 17:37:52 For Mac OS 7 - 9, you can use Kaleidoscope, which is a similar program to Windowblinds. I've tried it a few times on various Macs, and to be honest most of the themes are pretty ugly, and the standard UI looks the goods. For Mac OS 9.x, themes are natively supported but there aren't many to choose from. By being native, the difference here is that the performance hit is low. For Mac OS X 10.4, you can use Shapeshifter. Probably the best of the lot, fast, good designs, but for Tiger only. http://unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter For Mac OS X 10.5, there is something called Magnifique, but I've never tried it, and it seems Apple made it much harder to theme without leading to stability issues. Needless to say, themes will be OK on a Pismo running OS 9, but painfully slow on the same machine running OS X. If you want a Mac that does the day-to-day things and to replace your XP machine, don't bother with PowerPC machines, save up for an Intel model. JB
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