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Apple Reintroduces 15-inch MacBook Pro Matte Screen Option

Written on August 11, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 17 people have commented

Good news for those of you who were holding out for a matte screen option from Apple on something other than the most expensive, 17-inch MacBook Pro, and bad news for image and video professionals who already bit the bullet and picked up a 15-incher recently. Apple now offers a matte screen option on the [...]

How-To: Change the Default OS X Boot Icon

Written on July 28, 2009 by David Appleyard and 9 people have commented

The OS X boot image epitomizes the simplicity and elegance of the operating system itself, showing a basic Apple logo set against a light grey background. I’m a huge fan of this simple layout, but was very interested to hear about BootXChanger, a tiny application that can alter the boot image to anything you’d like.
BootXChanger [...]

UI Customization in Leopard

Written on November 26, 2007 by Stephanie Guertin and 18 people have commented

As you might have guessed from my past articles here, I tend to heavily customize the appearance of OS X on any machines I use regularly. Looking at my desktop, I see no default icons, my dock isn’t much better, and every time I use someone else’s machine, I’m generally surprised by the candy-colored [...]

Color Your iPhone: Let your teenage girl come out

Written on July 19, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 8 people have commented

Don’t think that just because you’ve got a new phone that cost as much as some PC’s that you are somehow above customizing the look of your phone. You know good and well you want to be in the crowd of 13-year-old teenage girls who customize their phones by changing out the shell of their [...]