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Customizing Your Mac: The Sacred Dock

Written on December 02, 2008 by David Appleyard and 11 people have commented

The Dock has become an iconic feature on the OS X operating system, present from the very earliest versions. It provides a unique way to open applications and monitor what is running on your system, while also offering a space to minimize application windows to.
While I’m sure many of you are quite happy with the [...]

Customizing Your Mac: Changing Icons

Written on November 12, 2008 by David Appleyard and 8 people have commented

Apple’s user interface is heralded as a sleek, modern experience. A great deal of attention is paid to the design of icons, and a guide is published to help ensure that developers also create icons which meet the standards of OS X.
If you’d like to use custom icons in OS X — whether for applications, [...]

CandyBar 3 Review

Written on November 27, 2007 by Stephanie Guertin and 2 people have commented

No sooner do I write about how I miss CandyBar then lo and behold it appears! CandyBar 3 was released today, available at Panic. It’s $29 for a license, and there’s a free 14 day trial if you want to take it for a spin first. A discount is available to registered [...]

Candy Bar 3 Features Preview

Written on October 24, 2007 by Danny Greg and 2 people have commented

Some of you may or may not be aware that the founders of Panic Cabel and Steven F, both have their own personal blogs.
Recently Cabel, while updating us all about the compatibility states of all of Panic’s apps with Leopard, let slip a few of the future features of the upcoming CandyBar 3.
First the [...]