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Macintosh Sauce
November 30th, 2007, 09:45 AM
Yesterday, Panic released CandyBar 3.0, an application that lets you change your graphics and icons (applications, device, folder, and now Dock) quite easily. I liked the application so much after trying it out for 15 minutes I decided to buy it. Last year, I purchased one other application of theirs - "Transmit" (the best darned FTP program around).

A bit o' Classic. ;) I was able to easily access our older G4 iMac, through File Sharing (it works so well in Leopard), to grab these pictures from the Classic System Folder.

http://www.jamesnrhodes.com/personal/james/leoparddesktop11282007-small.png (http://www.jamesnrhodes.com/personal/james/leoparddesktop11282007.png)

To this day, I still love this Desktop picture. When Apple made the "Flower Power" iMac I wanted one so bad, but I could never find the money to get it.
Glenn Jones
November 30th, 2007, 10:13 AM
Hey

Thats really cool. Just a quick question where did you get the alternate icons? and can you restore your system to the default icon-set?
Macintosh Sauce
November 30th, 2007, 11:58 AM
Hey

Thats really cool. Just a quick question where did you get the alternate icons? and can you restore your system to the default icon-set?

Just go to IconFactory (http://www.iconfactory.com/freeware) and download various iContainers to import into CandyBar 3.0. Some of the newer iContainers have Dock graphics as well. Also, you can import your own Dock graphics. See mine (http://www.jamesnrhodes.com/personal/macosx/files/) for tons of those... :)

Yes, you can restore the system default Leopard icons, folders, and Dock too. :) It works that well and is worth every penny IMHO.
Glenn Jones
November 30th, 2007, 05:38 PM
Thanks for that

Unfortunatley I'm still using Tiger so I won't be able to use CandyBar3. There is an open source alternative to CandyBar called LiteIcon. Documentation is a bit thin though. DO you have any experience with CandyBar2 or LiteIcon.

Could you tell me what the folder themes your using. There really cool

Cheers
FuturePilot
November 30th, 2007, 05:57 PM
That wallpaper is trippy
Macintosh Sauce
December 1st, 2007, 01:21 AM
Could you tell me what the folder themes your using. There really cool. Cheers

The folder theme I am using is called "Float" which is already installed. Then I went to IconFactory and downloaded the theme called Leopard Folders. I am using the Dock from Leopard Folders.

I have never used CandyBar until now. Version 3 is definitely sweet!
Macintosh Sauce
December 1st, 2007, 01:21 AM
That wallpaper is trippy

I don't know why it has always appealed to my artistic side. Weird... LOL