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Today's News by Cletus™  Safaricon 1.1.2 is the very popular program for changing Safari's user interface by installing icons as well as other application resources such as nib files localization files. SafarIcon comes bundled with a small set of high quality icon themes and more themes are available at the website. Version 1.1.2 fixes the following:
- Fixed a bug when saving custom theme
- Fixed URLs when downloading themes via Safari rather than SafarIcon.
- Fixed info string for Safari Default after theme download.
Pith is a cool program for Safari that allows browsing multiple window a breeze. It shows the open windows in a floating palette, but it's primary purpose is to recover the sites that were open if Safari crashes.
If you are looking for a way of making Chimera Navigator look as good as Safari does, you will want to stop by Happicon and pick up Safari buttons for Chimera! A preview of the buttons can be found here.
Change Startup Disk allows you to quickly choose between OS 9 and OS X with the click of button. Change Startup Disk is an AppleScript.
Process Wizard 1.18 is now available. It is described as a menu hack that allows you to access to all the processes of your system (applications, background applications, user processes, non user processes) and to change their priority (Unix nice value). Ctrl-Click on a process to kill it. What could be simpler. Here is what has changed: - Now Jaguar compatible !
- Now use the API supported by Apple to deal with menu items.
- The window in now draggable, and will be fully positionable in the final release.
- The full path of the process is now displayed as a tool tip.
- Wheel button is now supported to scroll the list.
- Fixed a major bug where the application freezed when a process with no associated path was present.
The highly popular program Drop Drawers X has been updated. More great work from Sig Software. They have added compatibility with wider range of URL types. Fixed flicker in Cocoa applications when opening floating drawers as well as several other minor fixes and improvements.
SwitchRes 3.0b7 is the excellent program that is a menu extra that will allow you to switch the resolution of all your monitors. It continues in beta as a completely redeveloped version develops for Mac OS X
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
 Icons - Desktops: Yo! We've got another great selection of icons and desktops to feed your need for desktop decoration. Starting off with (6) New Desktops, (3) New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". Take your time going, and hurry back!
In an ongoing effort to make it easier for you to send us your Icons and Desktops, we've designed a new Browser Based Upload Page for the task. Just follow the easy to use instructions, and you'll find submitting your artwork is a piece of cake!
- Homestar Runner Icons by our webmaster Michael Coyle, were made for Mac OSX and Linux, and are based on artwork from the Homestar web site. Read the ResExcellence interview of the site’s creators: The Brothers Chapman. Enjoy!
- While I can't take any credit for the great artwork, this set of eight Marc Moscow Icons originate from some Illustrator templates by Marc Moscow design studio, located on Adobe's Studio Exchange website.
- Got that feeling lately that our government is about to run amok? Jeremy Burnich thinks so, and created a set of nine Scary Government Icons, featuring the signs and symbols of these unsettled times.
- Brushed Metal Gravity Well desktops by Peter J. Sucy is another set of desktops derived from the Gravity Well image, this time with a brushed metal theme. The download includes two desktops @ 1280 x 1024 resolution, one with dock areas the other without. Also included is a set of brushed metal aqua widget icons for DiskSpy, that will look nice on a menu bar from one of Max Rudberg's Brushed themes.
- The kind folks over at Digikitten keep on sending us loads of great desktops to share with ResExcellence readers. By way of introduction, one of Digikitten's missions has been to provide a free place for digital artists to display their work without having to pony up for a server. Sexy Momma by Peejay is the next awesome desktop we have the good fortune to post from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- Graphic designer Reggie Pulliam sent us a really cool looking set of free form desktops for your downloading pleasure. The second from this unique series is titled "Ice Cold Tornado", and is available in three different resolutions.
- Matthew Postinger submits a kinetic looking Apple centric desktop simply titled Matt's desktop. Comes in 1024x and 1280x resolution.
- You never know what Bob Booten is going to come up with next. Today's elegant selection from the author is a great looking desktop titled Reflections On Life, and comes in 1152x resolution.
- Krishna M. Sadasivam of PCWeenies fame, sends us another of his experimental 3-D desktops rendered in Maya 4.5 titled "Space Puffs". This one comes in 1024x resolution, and in four different "flavors"
News From Around the Web: Rampant Mac has updates once again with new desktops, try not to be too shocked kiddies, three updates in one month is an abberation for an old gui freak =) Check it out! A new Desert Southwest Gallery has been added to Hoeslyvista's lineup of photographic desktop pictures. Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com has issued a new set of Vector-based desktops titled SiGNTiON. MacMonkies serves up a new batch of Icons for this week's Friday Icon Edition. Featured this week are works from Alex Rabino, AGRAPHA Icons, and miX the piX. All this GUI goodness and so much more are in store this Friday at MacMonkies.com. Check 'em out! MiXthepiX has updated the site with a new Safari icon set. Timeoutofmind.com updates with two Pacific Ocean Desktop Backgrounds. Double Helix is pleased to announce the release of three new fantasy art additions to the Galleries and Prints section of the site. The tutorials section is also open with a guide on mapping Poser figures in Bryce. Stop in and make yourself at home. Happicon releases a new icon set called 'No_Evil©. This is an anti-war iconset, dedicated to his hopes that there will be no war in Iraq, or anywhere else for that matter. Alan Sherwood is back on the gui trail, and has now completed the new site to host a number of different desktop delights. the site is burntcanvasdesign.btinternet.co.uk featuring a large desktop selection and a download section that contains textures, mobile phone graphics, and skies for bryce. Live Pencil updates with new live animals, new and improved emoticons, live text, and much more to make you smile. So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop Pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
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Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle Strong Bad uses The Cheat's iMac !  | One of the best sites featuring Flash animations is Homestar Runner. I can't get through the week without enjoying a Strong Bad email. Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing the two brothers who run the site and create the content. To find out how they got their start and how much work goes into the site, read today's ResExcellence interview: Homestar Runner, The Brothers Chapman. You can even download a set of Homestar MacOS X icons!
A little announcement for all you REALbasic lovers! Because of Erick Tejkowski's teaching schedule this semester, his REALbasic news and tutorials will be moved from a Tuesday/Thursday schedule to Wednesday/Friday. So watch for his next update on Wednesday.
 Study the snapshot on the right. Believe it or not that is a Windows XP desktop! Dan Sauve sent a list of Windows sites that work hard emulating the MacOS X interface. This is a follow up to my comment on the Apple Dock.app clone under XP.
- AquaXP: They have an aquaBrowser, aquaMail, aquaFinder, iBlink to add menu blinking, iTalk, aquaVolume, offer the Apple fonts, and even an About this Mac thingy for Windows!
- Aqua-Man
- IceMan: Lots more good links are here
- The Real Duckie: He even stole apples page design!
Derek Gordon is persistent! He emailed Eluminix, the makers of the cool backlit PS/2 keyboard and pressed them on the release of a USB version. Here is their reply: We are in the process of developing many different version of the EluminX Illuminated Keyboard, including wireless, ergonomic and multimedia keyboards. We are currently taking a survey on our web site to determine what new versions and what new illumination colors we are going to make. If you would like to help us in choosing our new versions and new illumination colors please take some time to complete our survey at www.eluminx.com, click on sweepstakes and fill out the survey. It would be great to have the suggestion box fill with requests for a Mac USB version!
User Contributed Splash Screens. by Michael Coyle It's easier than ever to contribute using the new Browser Based Upload Page! If you contribute a file to any section of ResExcellence, you could win a PowerMax gift certificate worth $50 ! (How?) - Global warming has caused the recession of glaciers. I found this Netscape 4.7 splash screen buried under one such ice flow. :-) Created by iArt, the splash features a brilliant nebula and the familiar light house.
- This latest progress bar for Safari comes in Newton Green! It's from Jay Balmer.
- The famous poem, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, is quoted in this beautiful Boot Panel from Sonic84.
- A few weeks back, Zapz created a boot panel with a yellow eye jaguar. Today he submits a yellow eyed Boot Image to match!
- "No problem Man" with this Boot Panel of Bob Marley by Nano.
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