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Required Reading

Modding Mac OS X, Basic Moves and Grooves
by Scott Chitwood, January 18, 2005

Boot Sequence and Login Mods

Boot Panel Replacement for Mac OS X Panther
by ~e, 03-04-2004

Customize the OS X Startup Progress Bar
by Laine Lee, 05-06-2004

Login Panel Replacement for Mac OS X Panther
by ~e, 03-09-2004

Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Boot Image Modification

Make the Login Window Remember Your Name
by Josh Zerin, 03-04-03

Jaguar/Panther: Modification Of Log Out And Shut Down Windows
by Cédrik Favre-Dub, 01-08-2004

Modifying The Boot Image In Panther
by Joe Vu, 10-11-2004

Replace the Boot Panel and Log-In Screen in Mac OS X 10.2.6
by Edward O'Rourke IV, 06-24-2003

Replace the Boot up Screen in Mac OS X
09-29-00

Replace the Login Screen in Mac OS X
10-02-00

Tiger and the Boot Panel
by Scott Chitwood, 7th July 2005

Tiger: Modify the Log Out Window
by Scott Chitwood, 20th December 2005

Where's the Login Desktop Pictures?
10-23-01, May not work in Mac OS X 10.1.5

The Finder

Change the Finder Window Button Icons
11-03-00

Increase the Listings of the Recent Items Menu
04-13-01

Removing The Sidebar In Dialog Boxes Of Carbon Applications
by Nicholas Adams, 12-23-2004

Run The Finder As Root
by Yuri Coles, 10-11-2004

Run two Finders, one as root
10-24-01, Broken by Mac OS X System Updates

Share the Classic and MacOS X Desktop
03-08-02

Show the Contents of a .app package
03-12-02

Tiger: Change the Behaviour of Command-F in Mac OS X 10.4
by Kristian Andersen, MacXimus I/S, 12th July 2005

Icons and User Pictures

Add a Trash Folder To Your Panther Sidebar
by The Readers Of ResExcellence, 12-09-03

Add any icon to the Toolbar
05-30-01

Change the default Toolbar Icons
09-09-01

Change the Dock icon and Message Flag in AOL Instant Messenger
01-25-02

Change the Dock icon in Apple's Mail.app
01-18-02

Change the Safari Default Bookmark Icon

Colorize Menubar Icons
07-25-02

Jaguar: Changing System Icons in MacOS X 10.2

Customizing The Mac OS X User Interface: Icons
by Scott Chitwood, February 15th, 2005

How to Change the New System Icons in Mac OS X
10-11-00

Mac OS X User Pictures
by Forrest Walter, 10-17-01

Multiple Icon Sizes in Mac OS X
05-23-01, Broken in Mac OS X 10.1.5

Remove The Toolbar Button Background Images In Mail 2.0
by College, May 5th, 2005

Replace the BezelUI Images in Mac OS X 10.4.3 and Previous Systems
by Scott Chitwood, 3rd January 2006

Restoring User Icon Transparency Under Panther
by Michael Austin, 12-04-03

Tiger: Locate and Replace System Level Icons, Part 1
by Scott Chitwood, 21st July 2005

Tiger: Locate and Replace System Level Icons, Part 2
by Scott Chitwood, 26th July 2005

Dock.app

Add a Quit Finder option to the Dock
08-13-01

Change the Look of the Dock in Mac OS X
09-25-00

Change The Trash Sound In Mac OS X
May 5th, 2005

Create a PopUp Dock folder for Preferences
05-04-01

Make the Dock in MacOS X Transparent
09-01-01

Place an Applescript for Hard Drives in the left side of the dock
05-23-02

Turn on the Dock's Drop Shadow
06-08-01

User Interface

Add More Highlight Colors to Mac OS X
02-07-01

Change Internet Explorer's Throbber
02-24-02

Change Mozilla's Throbber
by Michael Coyle, Updated 01-20-2004

Disabling The "Mac OS X Software..." Link In The Apple Menu
by Scott Chitwood, January 25th, 2005

Modify the Toolbar in the System Preferences
06-27-02

Replace The About This Mac (ATM) Image and Rename The Menu Item
12-23-2003

Clock Face

Change The Clock Face In Panther
by Scott Chitwood, Updated 04-06-2004 by Gene Poncelet

Change the Clock.app face in Mac OS X 03-16-01

Place two Clock.apps in the Menubar 10-26-01

Screen Savers

Build an Image Based Screen Saver for Mac OS X
by Scott Chitwood, June 21st, 2005

Change the Font and Background Picture in the "Computer Name" ScreenSaver
by Benjamin Hatfield, 02-02-2004

Change the Pictures in the Default MacOS X Screensaver
10-31-01

Create Animated Screen Savers Using Quartz Composer
by Scott Chitwood, June 28th, 2005

Extract Images from Screensavers
05-14-01

iApps

Add An Info Button To iChat
by College : 10-11-2004

Add SoundJam's Applescript Dictionary to Classic iTunes
06-25-01

Changing iTunes Playlist Highlight Colors
10-15-01

How to change the "Unknown Album", "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Genre" in iTunes 3

iPhoto Own Camera Image On Import Hack
by Matt Sephton, 01-06-2004

iTunes: Change The Text String That Prints On CD Jewel Case Inserts
March 17th, 2005

iTunes: Download, Convert and Import Shorten (.shn) Audio Files
by Scott Chitwood, March 29th, 2005

Replace the Fonts in iTunes
11-19-01

Scripting iTunes
06-25-01

Skinning iTunes
07-30-01

Skin the Scroll Bar in iTunes
07-18-01

Splash Screens

Change the Photoshop 7 Splash Screen
05-01-02

Change The Splash Screen In Microsoft 2004 Apps
by Scott Chitwood, 11-04-2004

Miscellaneous Mods

Add JavaScript Bookmark Tools to Your Browser
by Len Ford and Jody Chen, 02-04-2004

Adding OmniWeb the Internet Control Panel
12-13-00

Alert Sounds in Mac OS X
08-22-01

Classic TrueType fonts under Mac OS X
06-02-01

Creating Textures for DragThing 4.1

Customize the Color of the Spell Checker in Mac OS X
07-25-01

Delete the Google Search Field in Safari 2.0
by Scott Chitwood, 5th July 2005

Desktop Preference Pane | Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Enable All Desktops and Create Additional Stock Folders

by Bachelor boB, 31st Janaury 2006

Disable Beep When Changing Volume in Mac OS X
12-17-01

Go to any folder with Command
05-10-02

How To Add A Print Button To Safari
by BK with foreward by Scott Chitwood, 04-13-2004

How to Build a Secure, Multiple User Mac With Open Firmware Password Protection and Dual-OS Drives
by Bryan McGill, 09-18-03

How To Change The "Safe" Files Listed In Safari
by Daniel Wilday, 08-14-03

How To Install The Panther Java 1.4.1 Update Under Jaguar
by Michael Coyle, 11-18-2003

Long File names in Mac OS X
06-03-01

Modifying the default User Template and Creating Multiple Users

Move email between Entourage or Outlook Express Accounts
11-28-01

Safari Makeover > Alter the Browser.nib
by Scott Chitwood, 5th January 2005

Safari Makeover > Use Bigger Toolbar Icons
by Scott Chitwood, 10th January 2006

Low Level System

Airport Under MacOS X Public Beta
10-13-00

Changing Groups In The System Preference Pane
by Brian Ellis, 12-01-2003

Create Your Own System Preferences Panel
01-09-02

Detailed RPM output on package install
03-11-02

Mac OS X VM Swapfile Benchmark Results
08-15-01

Mac OS X VM Swap Guide
Includes Setup/Benchmarks/FAQ, 09-14-01

Modify Keyboard Template under MacOS X
10-30-01

MySQL and PHP Installation Tutorial

One Button Booting from Classic to Mac OS X
04-11-02

Using a Dedicated Swapfile Partition to Speed Up Mac OS X
6-01-01

Verbose MacOS X Startup
11-07-01

Applescripts

Applescript to Delete the mach, mach.sym files
05-22-01

Applescript to protect folders
03-13-02

Applescript To Split Movie Files Larger Than Two Gigabytes Into Smaller Chunks
by Laine Lee, 12-09-03

Printer Purge
by Lance Hudson, 03-11-2004

Say Time On Startup
by Bill as modified from Jason Hullinger's
"Startup Applescript That Greets You With Time Of Day", 02-16-2004

Startup Applescript greets you with time of day
by Jason Hullinger, 05-09-02

WorkSets 1.3
by Laine Lee, 12-23-2003

Reviews

10 Minute Review: Keyboard Maestro
05-30-02

10 Minute Review: Thinkfree Office
04-18-02

Hardware Mods

Cherry Powerbook
by Michael Coyle, 08-11-03


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