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Software Update by Scott Chitwood
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 Kanzu Software Updates iCan to version 3.0
iCan is a multi-featured trashcan for Mac OS X which that sits on the desktop. It's interactive, appearing empty when it's empty, and full when it's full - just like the one in OS 9. You can drag to it, unmount disks with it, click it to open the trash folder, and it responds to the Finder's command-delete. Version 3.0 adds many new features, including full compatibility for OS X 10.3, a new system-wide menu, and a much improved trashcan appearance using Quartz graphics for drawing iCan themes. iCan is skinnable with a dozen themes included, and registered users have access to extra bonus themes plus you can use iCan Theme Studio to easily create your own themes via drag and drop, and to convert old themes to iCan 3.0's new format. iCan also gives the the option to rename your trashcan to whatever suits your tastes. Features.. - iCan is dynamic, appearing empty when it's empty, and full when it's full,
- Includes options to force empty the trash and delete locked items,
- Includes a secure delete option,
- It is fully customizable using iCan trash themes,
- Includes several themes made by several talented icon designers,
- Themes can contain sounds for deleting and emptying the trash,
- It handles aliases properly, don't worry about deleting their originals,
- and more...
iCan can be directly downloaded from www.kanzu.com/software/iCan.sit.
KeepAnEye 1.5
KeepAnEye is a multipurpose monitoring and notification utility that lets you track data sources by providing visual representations which can be freely organized on the screen like stickies. Moreover, it observes the sources and warns you when something interesting happens. KeepAnEye can track RSS feeds, pictures, eBay auctions, web pages, software updates, disk usage and more.
Ever see rabbits do a 30 second recreation of the exorcist? Go here...
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
 Icons - Desktops: Yeah! We've got another selection of great icons and desktops to satisfy your hunger for desktop decoration. Starting off with [0] New Desktops, [6] New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". Take your time going, and hurry back!
I've been flooded with so many Icon sets in the last week, I've decided to make tonight's update especially for Icons lovers. Enjoy! We love promoting your work! So, grab those pixel pencils, and send us your best creations! 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. In case your haven't done so already, don't forget to read our submission guidelines before you start!
- Zippo Icons by Pixtudio were specially made for Zippo Manufacturing Company. This excellent corporate set includes sixty one unique icons with a stylish red and gold theme.
- Nahqua Icons by Gondarella is a wonderful set of nineteen system level icons with a playful hand drawn look and style.
- Mac fanatic and city dweller Ken decided to put together an icon set that depicts several of the stores he frequently visits. (What can he say? The consumer in him had to speak out.) NYC Stores Icons features seven icons inspired by the Apple Store SoHo, Compleat Strategist, Forbidden Planet, Kid Robot, Kim's Video, Shakespeare & Co. and Starbucks
- Noia Bogart by Carlitus is the last set we have on hand from the popular Noia series. This one includes thirty one different icons with a new flavour, this time using black cinema concept, and using mainly grey tones.
- Christopher Buyak was sick of looking at the standard blue Quicktime icon and wasn't sure if anybody had made any like these before. So, with a little Photoshop magic he presents a colorful set of thirty one different Quicktime Icon replacements.
- MSN Variations by Two Nerds and a Jock is a pleasing set of six different colored chat icons to replace the default blue.
News From Around the Web: Mandolux has issued a new Antivas desktop and it is a dual giant monitor desktop set of an LAPD Sealed Evidence crumpled enveloped, torn red tape (if you look closely, you’ll see fingerprints), and blood traveling upwards.as issued a new CRUISING desktop titled Old Freeway. This is a killer long-exposure photograph of traffic going-by and their long streaks of lights on a freeway spottily lighted here and there. MacMonkies gives your desktop a big GUI KISS with 3 New Icon Sets for this week's Friday Icon Edition! Making your desktop happy are works from latest iconist Steve Smith, as well as wonders from grnluvbug and Steven Ansell. Pucker up with the Pixels, News, and Bananas too, this
Friday at MacMonkies.com! Timeoutofmind.com updates with three new Desktop Backgrounds of the Torrey Pines Gliderport area; each is in three resolutions. Bombia Design presents new icons, desktops and an update of Aqua Developer Icon Kit Vol. 1, available at Iconkits.com (http://www.iconkits.com). The Iconfactory is pleased to announce Snappy Hour!, this week's freeware icon collection, based on licensed artwork from artist Derek Yaniger. Snappy Hour! is a fun and playful collection of retro style illustrations that will help turn your boring desktop into a swinging party full of beautiful babes, hip beatniks and rat-pack crooners. If you enjoy this freeware icon set, be sure to check out the Snappy Hour! Clip Art collection from Mister Retro that inspired them. Enjoy! The Big One updates with a new image called Sail Away. Panic and The Iconfactory are pleased to announce the immediate release of the latest version of the popular system icon customization utility - CandyBar. This latest version contains several important updates including full qualification for the next Mac OS X release - 10.3.3.
So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop Pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
*The desktop and icon archive is updated three times a week. The work is actually done on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings for publishing the following day. If you want a news item posted the same day, try and get it to me before 6 pm on any one of those evenings. THANKS!
REALbasic: Resizable Sheets by Seth Willits  | Everyone knows that sheets simply rock. While REALbasic sheets have gotten better through the last several updates of REALbasic, one thing they still don't support is being resizable. Well today, we're going to fix that. Yes, that really is all I have to say. :^) |
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Tools of the Trade by Scott Chitwood
My cold from a couple weeks back has caught up with me again so all I've got for you is a big pile o' theme previews and user contributions. Captain Nyquil is calling me...
 All new and updated themes shown here can be found on our main theme page. |  TiSkin 1.1
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|  ChosenOS v2.0
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|  SimpleX v2.0
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|  Rhapsodized 1.4
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|  iStyle v1.0
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|  GarageBand v1.0
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|  Brushed Lite 1.1
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|  Aqua 7 1.0.1
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Adam Davenport's Huskers Boot Image leaves no doubt about where you went school.
Herbert Dorfner contributes a Boot Panel that features everyone's favorite replacement for our former software editor Cletus™ - the hot chick!
Andrés says to use his Ferrari Boot Panel "...to show your support for the Ferrari F1 team."
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Software Update by Scott Chitwood
 Sure, I decide to take Wednesdays as a regularly scheduled day off and half the planet goes nuts with software news :) The fat cat is Mac OS X 10.3.3 which I installed at work this morning on my 400 mhz iMac G3. First impressions are it seems to be a bit zippier, the big thing I noticed right away was the new dialog for mounting network servers and once they were up, having the servers available in the sidebar and desktop is way convenient.
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 Unsanity Updates ShapeShifter and Mighty Mouse
First up is ShapeShifter v1.2. There's one safe and convenient way to change themes in Mac OS X at this point in time and ShapeShifter is the undisputed king of ease. New features in this release make it compatible with ".theme" files, making SS compatible all the back to Mac OS X 10.1. Here's a partial listing of other new ShapeShifter v1.2 enhancements... - Added ability for themes to skin individual applications like Safari and iChat,
- Dramatically improves load time for the ShapeShifter preference pane,
- ShapeShifter finally uses the Metal Window texture properly,
- Text color fixes - Finder Show Info Panel, Finder View Options, miscellaneous Carbon dialogs, Safari webpage text boxes, miscellaneous Cocoa list & browser views,
- and much more!
Mighty Mouse has been bumped to v1.1.3. Using Mighty Mouse you can create, animate, customize, and share custom cursors for Mac OS X including the Arrow, I-Beam, Alias, Copy, Move and the Wait cursors.
Cocktail 3.4.5
Cocktail 3.4.5 has just been released. This is a minor but important update that adds compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.3, more options to Pilot scheduler and few other improvements and fixes.
Velan announces the release of Fast DVD Copy for Mac OS X
FAST DVD COPY for Mac OS X that allows users to make copies of DVD videos with just one click, combining ease of use and professional quality results. The DVD copy can be played on almost any DVD player and gives you the ability to burn DVD videos onto blank DVD media using a SuperDrive. A free trial version of FAST DVD COPY can be downloaded on the company's website. The trial version allows users to make one DVD video copy.
RadicalBreeze updates DiscBlaze, RadicalPhoto, RadicalSqueeze
RadicalBreeze has released updates to three of their applications: DiscBlaze (their CD/DVD burning application), RadicalSqueeze (their file archiving tool) and RadicalPhoto (their photo enhancer and converter). These updates, free for registered users and include new requested features as well as bug fixes.
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
Icons - Desktops: Yeah! We've got another selection of great icons and desktops to satisfy your hunger for desktop decoration. Starting off with [6] New Desktops, [2] New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". Take your time going, and hurry back!
We love promoting your work! So, grab those pixel pencils, and send us your best creations! 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. In case your haven't done so already, don't forget to read our submission guidelines before you start!
- It's real nice to see someone creating great looking File Type Icons, as they tend to get neglected in icon collections. Beata Serkowiak created seventeen commonly used types to be used file as elegant replacements. Hopefully she will continue working on extending this set to a full blown series!
- Gonaki sends us a set of fourteen sharp looking icons created from recent and popular Anime series. Only one icon was "picked" from a "Manga".
- Quick Tag by SoulRocka Nasty Nene is the next cool desktop in his evolving "Environment" series of desktops. The photograph was taken while Nene was coming home from Manhattan one day. A quickie name tag was added in Photoshop. He would have done it with a real Kylon spray can, but as soon as you come out of this station, the police station is right in front of your face, and mad cops might be chilling outside. It was too dangerous, and he wouldn't want to get buck shot 41 times either. This one comes in 1024x resolution.
- Cover your desktop with a Forest of glossy clover created by Flameia Design. Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day, this one comes in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
- The folks over at Digikitten keep on sending us loads of great desktops to share with ResExcellence readers. Creatures of the Moon by Ivory Ocean is the next fine desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- Sniper decided a few more potent words about Women might just help the beast get a handle on the fairer sex. Check out this three picture set and decide for yourself. These are available in 1280x resolution.
- Power to the people! Apple's latest bad boy Power MacG5 appears in this desktop made by Jörg Schneider, available in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
- What the heck??? Intelect-5000 by The Madd Fajita is certainly a unique concept in desktop decoration. The download includes four different desktops in a series, which if installed in sequence and activated on a time schedule, will simulate the appearance of animation. The included read me file will do a much better job of explaining how this works. This one is available in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
News From Around the Web: Timeoutofmind.com updates with three new Desktop Backgrounds of the Torrey Pines Gliderport area; each is in three resolutions. Bombia Design presents new icons, desktops and an update of Aqua Developer Icon Kit Vol. 1, available at Iconkits.com (http://www.iconkits.com). The Iconfactory is pleased to announce Snappy Hour!, this week's freeware icon collection, based on licensed artwork from artist Derek Yaniger. Snappy Hour! is a fun and playful collection of retro style illustrations that will help turn your boring desktop into a swinging party full of beautiful babes, hip beatniks and rat-pack crooners. If you enjoy this freeware icon set, be sure to check out the Snappy Hour! Clip Art collection from Mister Retro that inspired them. Enjoy! MacMonkies updates with their Lucky 7 St. Patty's Day Desktop Edition! This week's edition includes 7 New Desktops from William D. Thompson, grnluvbug, FR4NK, Bob Wiley, Flameia Design, Victor Emert, and Jameson Sasser. Stop by MacMonkies for great desktops and good news from around the web this St. Patrick's Day! Mandolux has issued a new CRUISING desktop titled Old Freeway. This is a killer long-exposure photograph of traffic going-by and their long streaks of lights on a freeway spottily lighted here and there. The Big One updates with a new image called Sail Away. Panic and The Iconfactory are pleased to announce the immediate release of the latest version of the popular system icon customization utility - CandyBar. This latest version contains several important updates including full qualification for the next Mac OS X release - 10.3.3.
So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop Pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
*The desktop and icon archive is updated three times a week. The work is actually done on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings for publishing the following day. If you want a news item posted the same day, try and get it to me before 6 pm on any one of those evenings. THANKS!
REALbasic: Seth's Big List of Gripes by Seth Willits | | REALbasic is an awesome development environment. Everytime I sit down to write a new program, I think about which language and evironment I should write it in. For me, there are always the same three major choices: Cocoa, Carbon, or REALbasic and while I have written Carbon apps and I have written Cocoa apps (err, well worked on them mostly), at the end of the day I still choose REALbasic for the vast majority of my projects. There are, however, three major drawbacks to using REALbasic: limitations, bugs, and more bugs. I am a huge supporter of REALbasic, violently defending it at all costs, and I have nothing but the highest respect for every employee at REAL Software, but there comes a time in every RB-using man's life where he just needs to speak out, revealing the things which bother him most, and ask for them to be solved so that he may code on with the fiery passion that once filled his ticker. My friends, I have reached this stage through an obtuse angle. Most everything I have done in REALbasic and continue to do are awesome simple to create and (for the most part) quite stable. However, there are three features introduced in REALbasic 5 and 5.5 which are simply lacking in the polish and care that they deserve. These features are: drawers and composite windows, combo boxes, and toolbars. While there are many other features I wish could be expanded or refined, I feel that these three bother me the most, because there the three I wish to use extensively in new applications but either they don't sport the features they should have from the beginning (ComboBox), don't allow me to expand on them myself or better yet do it for me (toolbars), or I cannot use them at all (drawers and composite windows). Below is a list of bug reports and feature requests (which I will add to as I see fit) which are primarily related to the three features above. I am posting them here in hopes that you and others who may read this will see these reports and support their resolution as soon as possible (i.e. 5.6). Were these reports to all be resolved in a future update, I can assure you that the quality of Mac OS X applications able to be developed with REALbasic would increase significantly. So, I, Seth Willits, President, CEO, and Janitor of Freak Software, REALbasic Guru at ResExcellence, former writer for REALbasic Developer Magazine, proud user of REALbasic since 2.1.2, and quirky weird guy who wears an Apple hat every day hereby challenge you to voice your opinion to REAL Software to resolve these issues! I confess, I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I do get a kick out of rallying the troops every now and again. ;^)
-- Weasel |
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Tools of the Trade by Scott Chitwood
Copy and Paste Custom Icons In Panther
Now that I'm finally up and running in Panther at work, without the benefit of third party apps to enhance the user interface, I'm finding little things here and there that I may not have otherwise noticed. One of Panther's big strengths compared to earlier releases of Mac OS X is that copying and pasting icons in the Finder are almost as easy as it was in OS 9 and ealier. What I didn't realize was icons within the home folder and root level of the drive can be changed just as easy as a user created folder is. There are a few exceptions but a quick change of permissions via File > Get Info has so far worked for me on everything except the OS 9 Desktop and Network icons.
 
Home and root folders, hit images to view full size in new window.
Another thing that's a new work method for me under Panther is that I use a single Finder window for navigating my local hardrive, external usb disk and our Windows network. The sidebar is functioning great as replacement for OS 9's pop-up folders. I've also found that keeping open and save dialogs confined to two columns speeds things up quite a bit.
My desire to say something nice about Apple!
by Cletus™ During my time at ResExcellence readers will remember I got my share of "complaints" in, if you will, about Apple. There have been times when I have been very complimentary to them also. Probably the most recent being the release of iCal 1.5.2, which finally fixed the "No Alarm" problem I was having. They must have heard my complaints, because Apple emailed and asked if I would be interested in helping test 1.5.2 based on my problems. I obliged by beta testing. December of 2003 I purchased a 20" cinema display. Beautiful monitor. Right out of the box however, I experienced a blinking light on the front of the display. According to the manual, the blinking code represented a problem with one of the "back-lamps". In looking at the monitor there was no back-lamp out. I ran the hardware test disk, and it also said there was no problem. I called Apple. They said to send it back in. However, later in the day while playing around with it, unplugging and plugging it back in, and numerous restarts, it cured itself. I called Apple again and they said to hold sending it in. One week later it returned, and this time the back-lamp WAS out across the top. I called Apple and told them I was sending it in. Five days later it was returned, and they found nothing wrong. UGH! I plugged it in and sure enough, it functioned without problems— until earlier last week. Lamp out, blinking returned. Once again I called Apple. They ran me through several tests, called the engineers for me, and asked I send it back in. They asked me if I could hook it to another machine. I used a computer at the college where I work, and it worked fine. Now what? Brought it home and it worked fine on my machine also. Oh boy. I reported this to Apple and they said to sit tight and would get back to me in a week. I said OK. One business day later they called. They would send me a new monitor. There initially was a concern it could be my video card, but based on my symptoms they ruled this out. Great! Everyone I dealt with over the phone was extremely nice. The most recent person was Al, who was extremely helpful and pleasant to deal with. He asked me to test some things, which I did, and likewise he looked into some things at his end. My point is that we worked together to figure it out. We both put in an effort. I did not call and insist on a new monitor and they did not simply say it was the video card and that is that. I have read many times of poor support being given at Apple, but I am hear to say that in dealing with this problem, and a number of different people at Apple, they were nothing short of professional, respectful, knowledgeable and realistic. I just wanted to give them their due.
Odds and Ends
Whilst wandering around distributed.net I saw this page where they show a breakdown of processors and the operating systems that have actively contributed computing power to breaking encryption codes. About midway down the list it clearly shows an Intel X86 processor alongside Mac OS X, very interesting...
| Aqua 7 guiKit
For those of you waxing nostalgic for an OS 7 experience to ease the candied gloss of OS X, look no further than Photon Themes Aqua 7 to satisfy your gui crave. |  Aqua 7
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| AquaPro v2.2 guiKit
AquaPro v2.2 by I'mDaMac is inspired by the Aqua appearance as seen in Apple's professional line of software. |  AquaPro v2.2
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| Green Aqua .dlta File
Comie Prevette III's Green Aqua is built for Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2.6 - 10.2.8 but looks reasonable well when applied with ShapeShifter under Panther too. |  Green Aqua
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| Updated guiKit: NEOS 1.2
Thsi latest release of NEOS 1.2 features two new install flavors, White and Matrix Green. |  NEOS 1.2
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| MacThemes Interviews Carpe Stellarem
You can read the article here. Carpe Stellarem's public beta of their theme changing app, XTender, can be found on page two of the story.
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User Contributions by Scott Chitwood It's easier than ever to contribute using our Browser Based Upload Page! If you contribute a file to any section of ResExcellence, you could win a PowerMax gift certificate worth FIFTY DOLLARS! It's easy and fun to win, look here to see how it's done! Our PowerMax Gift Certificate Winner for February 2004 is Kevin Husted of Swizcore Studios for his Studio Pro v1.0.1 theme, congratulations Kevin!
Miciah Stamates was so impressed with the look of Xanthic's TiSkin theme he felt the need to honor it with a matching Boot Panel, TiSkin Inspired.
Huskers mascot Herbie has been immortalized in a Boot Image creation by Adam Davenport, HerbieBoot.
Steven Wilson contributes his wildy green Matri-X skin for iTunes 4.2
Serge (Greets from Russia) sent his rather unique makeover/hack for Stuffit's Progress Bar. If you're using a dial up connection this one deserves a good look.
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Software Update by Scott Chitwood
ResExcellence and Econ Technologies Camtastic Caption Contest!
Not just another contest. Econ Technologies and ResExcellence presents the Camtastic Caption Contest. You'll need to use your creative writing skills to enter this one, here's how it works. We're looking for the funniest, cleverest, most irreverent caption you can come up with to go along with any of Econ Technoligies ImageCaster WebCam Shots! Look for that unflattering image and then add your caption. Be Creative! Get crazy! Have some fun! Don't hold anything back! This ain't your mother's caption contest, so don't worry about insulting us or hurting our feelings. You dish it out and we'll take it! And even reward it! Head on over to our Camtastic Caption Contest page!
Macintosh Explorer 4.0 Speeds Up File Navigation
Macintosh Explorer brings the hierarchal navigation system of Windows Explorer to the Mac. Complete with file management tools to edit extended file information, back up documents and batch change file information, Macintosh Explorer combines a file browser with a multitude of powerful file management tools to help keep your files organized and a click away. Macintosh Explorer 4.0 is a major upgrade offering much faster file navigation as well as three new file views including icon view, detailed list view and list view. It also offers customization of the file icon size as well as the ability to keep files arranged depending on certain characteristics such as kind, size or creation/modification date.
BackLight Updated to version 2.0
BackLight provides a menu extra that allows you to use screensavers as your desktop background. It can also change your screensaver and open the preferences. Having your screensaver on your desktop is quite a cool effect, but you should probably have a Quartz Extreme-capable machine if you want to handle the load. BackLight is quite nifty and fun, I can highly recommend using it with the Plasma Tunnel ScreenSaver :)
Speed Download 2, version 2.3.2
Speed Download 2 ensures that you always get the fastest download speed from your internet connection every single time you download a file and no matter what browser you use, and that you never miss another software update again. New features... - Optimized for both dialup and broadband connections,
- TURBOCHARGED downloading,
- Auto-resuming downloads,
- Track downloading history,
- Up to the minute updates for all Macintosh apps,
- Switch between aqua and metallic appearance,
- Fully customizable interface,
- and much more.
Captain FTP 3.2
The powerful, and refreshing features of Captain FTP such as Server to Server file transfer, Resuming, Transfer Manager, Rendezvous, and Accelerated transfers have been used as the base to develop and further improve Captain FTP. Because of this, the newest version 3.2, is more powerful, and user-friendly than ever.
Some of the highlights in this new version of Captain FTP include providing the user with the ability to enter commands via the command line, and a helpful progress bar visible in the dock when Captain FTP windows are minimized. Captain FTP has increased functionality from the addition of new connection methods for proxy/firewall server logins, and by adding extra columns for domain and IP addresses for Rendezvous.
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Polling Place by Scott Chitwood  The question was; What software tracking website do you use most?
VersionTracker wins hands down out-pacing the other software tracking sites by a considerable margin. I do make a point to see what's been posted at VT or one of the other big sites most days. My answer in the poll was for 'Other' because I'd rather have an app that uses a built-in software updater or be notified via email when a new version has been released.
I personally never developed a habit for using the Sherlock app in Mac OS other than a way to search local disks, and I really disliked how bloated and slow it seemed to its precursor, 'Find'. When Panther was released Find was carved off of Sherlock's back, returning it back to its former unbloated state. There's no arguing the fact that Sherlock's feature set lets you do some neat things but for my work habits it's an app that never gets lauched. Is that a mistake? Am I missing something by not using Sherlock? The question is; Do you use Sherlock?
Do you have an idea for poll question that you'd like to see us ask? Send it my way!
Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
Icons - Desktops: Yeah! We've got another selection of great icons and desktops to satisfy your hunger for desktop decoration. Starting off with [6] New Desktops, [2] New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". Take your time going, and hurry back!
We love promoting your work! So, grab those pixel pencils, and send us your best creations! 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. In case your haven't done so already, don't forget to read our submission guidelines before you start!
- Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. The good news here is that we are able to present the fourth and final installment of Steve Smith's "Iced System" series: Iced System Vol. 4. As there have been so many icons in this series, I've had to break it down into numerous downloads. Volume four contains fifty eight different icons with a cool metallic style. Kudos to Steve for such an excellent body of work.
- Mame mutilate and destroy with Heavy Metal Icons by KreaXion Design. This set features seven Icons from the popular movie that influenced the F.A.K.K.2 game.
- Bronx NYC Environments by SoulRocka Nasty Nene is something unique and different to add to your desktop collection. As a long time city dweller, Nene says that not only is NYC the capital of hip hop but the capital of textures as well. Meaning every shot you take with your camera ( in NYC ) comes off with some good quality raw urban flavor. This one comes in 1024x resolution.
- Woops (no name) sends us a clever Powerbook G4 desktop titled Paris by Night. This one was designed for a flat panel or laptop, and comes in 1440x resolution.
- Gavin Robb returns with more digital delights. Eye is a stylish two picture set using bold colors, and is available in 1280x resolutions
- Sniper decided a few potent words about Women might just help the beast get a handle on the fairer sex. Check out this two picture set and decide for yourself. Both of these are available in 1280x resolution.
- Ned Bustard wishes all a Happy Saint Patrick's Day, coming up this week. The desktop features a happy Celtic designs for your desktop. The design and colors are by Ned, illustration by a long since dead monk from somewhere in Ireland a long long time ago. Comes in 1024x resolution.
- BG1RCK by GoldMech is a cool kinetic backdrop available in 1024x resolution.
News From Around the Web: Mandolux has issued a new CRUISING desktop titled Old Freeway. This is a killer long-exposure photograph of traffic going-by and their long streaks of lights on a freeway spottily lighted here and there. MacMonkies updates with 3 New Icon Sets for your Friday Icon Edition. Featured this week are works from new iconist PROvider, as well as a "double shot" from Steven Ansell. Check out the fun, this Friday at MacMonkies.com! Timeoutofmind.com updates with one new desktop named "Taken In", in three resolutions. The Big One updates with a new image called Sail Away. Panic and The Iconfactory are pleased to announce the immediate release of the latest version of the popular system icon customization utility - CandyBar. This latest version contains several important updates including full qualification for the next Mac OS X release - 10.3.3. The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the release of Dave Brasgalla's latest freeware icon collection - World of Aqua: Rev 2 Drives. These new drives are influenced by the current industrial design of Apple's iBooks and iPods and lend a clean, slick look to any desktop. WOA: Rev 2 Drives is available today from The Iconfactory Showroom for either Mac, Win or as a handy Pixadex iContainer.
So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop Pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
*The desktop and icon archive is updated three times a week. The work is actually done on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings for publishing the following day. If you want a news item posted the same day, try and get it to me before 6 pm on any one of those evenings. THANKS!
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