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Friday 23rd September 2005
 by Scott ChitwoodUnsanity Unleashes Updates and a New Release! Our friends at Unsanity have unleashed a wave of haxies this week, let's check 'em out! WindowShade X brings a wealth of window management capabilities to Mac OS X. From the ever popular windowshade functionality to Minimize-in-Place and custom shadow control, you won't lack for options to customize your window work space in Mac OS X ever again! WindowShade X 4.0.2 fixes several small bugs and enhances the popular window management tool and is free for all registered users. Issues with WindowShade X not working right with certain applications have been fixed along with a visual glitch with window shadows when custom shadows were enabled plus an array of other smaller bugs have been summarily squashed.  New to the arsenal of Unsanity tools is Smart Crash Reports, an enhancement for the Apple's CrashReporter application introduced in Mac OS X 10.4. It allows 3rd party developers to register their products in manner so if the eligible application crashes, the crash log is sent to the developer as well as Apple. This greatly enhances the user experience of the OS, and allows developers to receive crashes and improve their software in a timely manner.Smart Crash Reports requires no Application Enhancer or similar "patching" frameworks users have to install; they operate on the InputManager mechanism that is built-in Mac OS X. Smart Crash Reports is completely free to use for both users and developers; Unsanity is providing it as a beneficial service to the community. Wrapping it up is Unsanity's update of FruitMenu to version 3.4.2, which adds the ability to display Finder Smart Searches and Recent Servers in the menu and fixes bugs. FruitMenu is a haxie that gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus. Using a visual editor you can edit the contents of the menus to suit your needs and taste. New in FruitMenu 3.4.2
 by Scott ChitwoodFriday arrives with four new desktops and two new icon sets! Bathed in bright and colourful beams o' sunshine is Lake LaVerne, a phtotographic desktop by Aaron Ranney. Tim Fehr's Daylillies Zoomed were created with BeLight Software's Image Tricks. A number of effects were applied. Most noticeable is the Zoom Blur filter, also getting in some action were the Bloom, Color Controls, Exposure Adjust and Sharpen Luminance filters.  Spider hatchlings by the thousands greeted Tim Fehr when working outdoors, he captured the event with a 100 Macro lens at full 1:1 extension. The intense orange colored background of the desktop, Red Hot, is just an orange extension cord thrown out of focus by the extreme magnification. You must have a peak at the included bonus photos to appreciate how very small and numerous the spiders are! A first day of Autumn walk at the Cleveland Botanical Garden reveals gorgeous Beauty Berries. Photo by Rick Segedi. So which M&M shall we root for? Obi-Wan or Darth Vader? Gotta be a tie! Thanks to the gang at The Wacky Pixel Company for sharing this cute little set; M-Pire.  The artist known as Spurs crafted a set of replacement icons for Gizmo, a new application similar to Skype.
No snapshots to post! Well, I was planning to post snapshots for Friday since I bowed out this Wednesday, but I have only one submission in the hanger! Sorry folks. :-(
 by Scott ChitwoodLot's o' Goo, Little on Words The family iBook G4 took a turn for the worse Wednesday evening so I spent most of my update hours trying to save it, to no avail. The only boot action I could get out of it was via Firewire Target Mode through our Quicksilver Power Mac G4. Disk Utility helped a litte, was actually able to boot it up a time or two but Disk Warrior found major unrepairable damage to the directory and things got worse from there. By late evening it became apparent that no matter what I threw at it, it just wasn't going to be enough. A trip to the Apple store Genius Bar is on my Thursday agenda... But enough of that mess, you're here for the goods and we were able to deliver those in a nice way although we'll have do so without out usual write up of each item. New goodies can be found in the theme archive, both for ShapeShifter and a stand alone installer, Iridium 1.6.5. Other sections with updated galleries include; Boot Panels, iTunes Skins, Cell Phone Themes, and Growl Styles. See you Friday!
by Scott Chitwood TriLateral Systems releases VirtuFrame 2.8.1TriLateral Systems has released version 2.8.1 of its internationally recognized, eclectic oddity, VirtuFrame. VirtuFrame was the first virtual frame application developed for Mac OS X and this version continues its tradition of excellence in design and development. VirtuFrame 2.8.1 provides several improvements and bug fixes over version 2.7. Bug Fixes
Improvements
VirtuFrame System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later, BSD subsystem.
by Scott ChitwoodFour new desktops and two new icon sets await you eager eyes for Wednesday! Brushed steel plates and phillips head screws dominate a stylish desktop, industrail mac, that comes to us courtesty of John Meyers. Colton Hanson gets in a desktop duo with Red Negative, a cityscape bathed in crimson light, and a double dose of garden Spiders weaving their mysterious and silky art.  Jonathan Custodio's Wade MU6 features basketball star Dwyane Wade from his days at Marquette University. icon.lugic.de shares two follow up icon sets to LUGIC.folders, LUGIC.folders VII and LUGIC.folders VIIm, that offer a more complete collection when added to the original release. 
No snapshot update today Sorry folks. I have some school work that needs my attention. Snapshots will return on Friday.
REALbasic: News Update by Seth Willits
by Scott ChitwoodTiger Secrets: Preview 7 undercover uses for Tiger’s viewing application. Mark Evans tips us off to a great article at MacWorld that exposes some nifty things about the Tiger edition of Apple's Preview app. What kind of nifty things you might ask? How about viewing a folder full of images by drag and drop instead of Select All? Or using Preview's built in image correction tools? Or perhaps the king of nifty; combine mulitple PDFs into one document? Check it out! RSS Feed? A big question, and with good reason, is appearing in our email quite often these days... "I love ResExcellence but can't always check for new stuff, so is there an RSS feed? Or plans for one?" The most honest answer I can give you is this... ResExcellence is wholly dependent on our treasured advertisers to keep us online and earning a bit of compensation for our efforts. My biggest concern is that an RSS feed would undermine our ads served, thereby impacting our abilities to meet our financial obligations. We've always stood our ground firm when it comes to our committment to keep ResExcellence free from begging our users to donate to our cause with hard earned monies or to set up a subscription based service for the privelege of browsing our archives. We are no less committed to that ideal today. What do we ask for in exchage for that committment? Just an understanding that our advertisers deserve to have their ads viewed and clicked when a user is intrigued enough to dig a little deeper for any given product. We do update the site on what is nearly an everyday basis Monday through Friday (actual time for the index page is around 6:00 - 6:30 a.m. CST USA, other pages usually the evening before) so it should be fairly easy to pop in to check the latest news at whatever time may be convenient. Thanks for understanding our thoughts on this and please feel free to email me your opinions. We do have one exception to the rule at this time, our updated forum features an RSS feed. Users Forum Updated! Some big changes are afoot in the ResExcellence Users Forum. Over the weekend we updated the software to UseBB 0.6a, a major jump from 4.x that required a whole new set of files to be uploaded, which also required the forum skin to be rebuilt as the previous version was coded into the php files, while the new version, with the exception of a few items, is mostly coded through via a single CSS document. The forum link in our navigation now points to the top level of the forum where we have three categories to choose from...
The ResLounge has been around for awhile, it was just never apparent unless someone chose to visit the forum index.
 by Scott ChitwoodA nice array of gui goodies greet our Tuesday edition! Henk Vos builds upon our selection of Apple/Mac OS X Sony Ericcson Cell Phone Themes with Apple OS X Aqua. Have a hankering to go brushed metal with your Tiger Login Window? John French has just what the doctor ordered, Brushed Login, a replacement nib for the loginwindow.bundle.  Tjost's four part Blizzard Entertainment Panther Boot Panel collection forges ahead with the WCH which I can only assume refers to World Of Warcraft... DHR1DER shows just how far one can go when it comes to tweaking the user interface of iTunes 5.0 with a colourful gloss and glass collection; iTunes Rainbow. Today's release is brought to you by the color Purple. jarallik launches a multi-part animated Quartz Composer Screen Saver collection with a piece called bright apple. A Cell Phone Theme for Sony Ericcson models K700/750 from Dean Williams puts forth the question of Who Needs ROKR?
Our PowerMax Gift Certificate winner for August 2005 is Diane Benoît. Diane's Bumble Bee desktop picture scores a sweet and savory $50.00 — nice!
by Scott ChitwoodPowerMax Announces Apple iPod Nano-A-Day Giveaway PowerMax has announced they will give away a new 2GB iPod nano every day of the week, September, 19th through 23rd, 2005 to contest winners. Interested parties are encouraged to visit PowerMax to fill out the entry form. All winners will be selected randomly and will be posted to the PowerMax web site as well as contacted via email. Contest winners will have their choice of a black or white iPod nano. Registrants may enter only once per day per email address, but may enter for each drawing. The first drawing will be held Tuesday Sept. 20th and will encompass all entries through Monday, Sept. 19th at midnight. The next drawing will be held Wednesday Sept. 21st and will encompass all entries through Tuesday, and so on. The final drawing will be held Monday morning and will encompass all entries from Friday at 12:01 AM through Sunday at midnight.  Win a Mac mini or an iPod nano in the iClip 4 "Re-gift" GiveawayInventive has pre-announced the upcoming iClip 4, which features a new, stylish user interface by veteran UI designer, Piotr Gajos (Pe8er). To celebrate the forthcoming release, Inventive also announced the "iClip 4 'Re-gift' Giveaway" where a Mac mini, an iPod nano, or an iTunes Music Card will be given away to three lucky winners. Inventive recently won the Mac mini in the DashboardWidgets.com "Favorite Widget" Contest for their iClip lite widget and decided to "re-gift" it for this promotion. iClip enables users to quickly store, organize, and access snippets of information without having to save them as entire documents. Clippings stored in iClip can be arranged into groups, and there's a special group that automatically records everything copied to the Clipboard. iClip helps eliminate redundant typing, especially when filling out online forms, and it's useful for assisting with general tasks such as word processing, web browsing, and research. Webmasters, graphic designers, and programmers also find iClip to be useful for their more specialized needs. iClip 4 will be available soon for Mac OS X 10.3 or later for $29 US. The current version of iClip, v3.7 is available now for Mac OS X 10.2 or later at and it can be purchased for $19.95 US. The iClip 4 upgrade will be free to registered users of any previous iClip version.
Kickstart the week with another round of snaps: 
by Scott ChitwoodMondy arrives with four new desktops and two new icon sets! The artist known as sinewave shares a stylish photographic desktop, Alucbond, that was taken at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center this past July.  Colton Hanson gives us a pair of desktops that feature a Guitar bathed in glowing red light. Two multi-part desktop collections from an anoymous artist feature the Apple logo against a variety of stylishly rendered backgrounds; Corner Zoom and Lumacy. Cherry Cheung's icon set, Golden Retirever, is all about the dogs!  Danielle Vasquez finds iconic joy with the cast of Namco's Katamari game.
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