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Leopard Meets Tiger: GUI Enhancements

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There's no accounting for taste. While some may love GUI enhancements, others might find them obnoxious. While there are some things no one can help, below are some cool picks that can help you arrange your Aqua the way you like.

Leopard Tweaks

LeoColorBar

Can't read your menu in Leopard? Change the menu bar transparency and color with this free hack.

Tiger Dock

This app reverts Leopard's 3D-looking dock to the Tiger dock we know and love. No more odd sense of depth.

PTHVolume 2

This tiny app replaced the sound widget, giving you menu-bar access to your audio settings, allowing you to adjust levels for all of your sources.

Tiger Tweaks

Liger

This ShapeShifter (not free) theme will infuse your Tiger with Leopard GUI enhancements, including the ones listed above.

ClearDock

This app is listed with the above theme, and takes the background from the Tiger dock - allowing you to roll your own 3D dock effect (hint, draw on your desktop background).

Virtue Desktops

Love the idea of Spaces, but on have Leopard yet? Virtue Desktops was one of many desktop managers before Spaces. Its free and probably one of the best.

Dash Clipping Widget

This simple widget brings Leopard's Web Clip feature to Tiger. Turn web pages into instant Dashboard widgets, its very cool.

MacGizmo

Okay, you have to pay for this one ($20) but it brings one of the more exciting Leopard UI enhancements to Tiger. MacGizmo mimics Leopard's Finder file preview, letting you look at a document before opening it.

You may be running Tiger or Leopard, but that shouldn't stop you from dressing your GUI the way you like it. Thank you freeware!

Brian

  


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