Desktop Themes Come to the Mac

I thought Mac users have already had something to change the style for some time. There's so many themes available for Mac, it's a big thing porting them over to Windows (I have several Mac-ported themes).

Macs have had several different looks over the years, but building and running custom themes is a very recent thing for the MacOS world.

Oh comeon.....Apple invented skinning.......

Gee, what rock have u been living under, Mac OS has been theming for years, and you act like you know everything? You really need to get informed before you make articles trying to sound smart. Shapeshifter has been out over a year and there was themeing before that as well, many Windowblinds themes have been inspried by Mac themes. Not to mention Shapeshifter is in version 2.4 not 2.0.4. You seriously need to research a bit before you make a post, because Mac's have had themes for well over 3 years and it has been mainstream the entire time. Not to mention welcome to the 90's? Windows wasn't even themeable in the 90's unless you count the very early versions of WB which even Stardock will agree it wasn't anything it is today.

Bebi Bulma, you are correct, Zoomba is 100% inaccurate in this article. I find it hard to believe people can be so ignorant in this day of age, why don't you get with the new millenium.

See.....I knew it...

Strange article.

Been using Shapeshifter for years.

Yeah... i've known about shapeshifter for quite awile.. nothing new really.

building themes and such has been around for well over 2 or 3 years.. i didn't know stardock had a superiority complex.

Unless you are just referring to Mac OS X, I remember using Kaleidoscope on System 7.5 as far back as around 1995 or so. For the most part, it was what began my interest in customization. From there it was onwards to a PC and the likes of LiteStep and eFX, which all eventually lead me to Stardock.

Yes, this is "extremely" old news.
Where do you think all these OSX ports come from? Sorry.

Dear god people, get a sense of humor... the entire article was written tongue-in-cheek.

Jeez, I've just recently, in the last few days, been thinking about getting a Mac & this post title caught my eye. Thought things had maybe mellowed out with the PC vs Mac junk so we could move on...
Guess not.
Careful, Zoomba, there's hostiles close and they've got hair triggers!!
Later days, folks...
Might want to relax a bit.

Relax? No, you people need to learn that "tongue-in-cheek" articles, shouldn't be featured on the homepage of a professional site. Keep ur joke posts strictly to the forum as a thread and not an article. Saying what you did, joke or not, would have spread the wrong message to those that didn't know any better, we want to spread facts not what one may think is funny, by poking fun at another os. You really need to grow up and keep frontpage articles professional, and not a bias opinion.

Steve, you should just relax, and stop trying to make this so 'politically correct'. Zoomba has taken the step of informing our community of a cool update to Shapeshifter, and if you dont like how the article was written, take it up with him in a private manner, either email or chat. If that had been the article it is now, I'd have probably though 'well laaaa-deee-daaa' and not taken a look. However, due to the funny nature of it, I now have learned that a new version's been released, and it looks very complete! How about... we stop trying to make it so 'professional' and instead work on expanding our community to include others, and give attention to the other skinning apps out there? Sound good? Mmmkay.

The article still has a subtitle that seems to say Apple is late to the party. I didn't get to apparently see the tongue-in-cheek version but I can understand people getting upset. You don't put a "joke" on the front page unless its April Fools Day or you put a disclaimer at the end of it to say it was all tongue-in-cheek. Otherwise you will get the reputation that no one can believe what is on the front page which is supposed to be news items.
This is of interest to skinning but should have been presented straight rather than trying to joke and minimize the reason you are presenting the information.

In the subtitle area I often place little joking comments regarding the news story. That will not change, and it seems when it's not a joke about Mac, everyone thinks it's OK.

The only time the news article is funny is usually on April 1st. It's to be expected.
If News Articles are now going to be "tungue in check", maybe you should have a news article letting everyone know that from now on to expect humorous or off beat articles.
For as long as I've come here the "Front Page news" has always been 100% prefessional, straight forward and non-humorous. This is why, I think, everyone took it the way they did (including me).

eh.

Wish I had seen the 1st, I coulda used a chuckle.

I have posted articles with humorous comments in the past, it's just not usually about Macs, which is a needlessly touchy subject.

I forget often that I take things less seriously in general than many do, especially when it comes to the "hot button" topics.  Lesson learned for me.

Lesson learned for me.

eh. woulda been better if the lesson had been learned from you.

take things less seriously

Thought things had maybe mellowed out with the PC vs Mac junk so we could move on...

Hardly.....not when at every moment there is the chance for a 'my dad is bigger than your dad' argument...

It's probably somewhere between overly 'precious' and 'twee' to be lauding the 'three years', whatever that Macs may or may not have been skinning....particularly if it's through the naivete that MS 'skinning' started with the XP OS.

It didn't.

Re light-hearted NEWS content...why the heck not?  Last one I saw elsewhere was along the lines of 'Microsoft buys Firefox'...OK, so that, too had headless chickens running around saying 'the sky is falling', but really, people, to use the American vernacular....."lighten up".

Where's Snowman when he's around with the quip....."skinning is meant to be fun"?...

I find it hard to believe people can be so ignorant in this day of age

Oh really? I find it hard to believe some people can be so arrogant and thin skinned in this day of age! How about that!? I guess anything is possible! And whats with this "You People" crap! Posts like that are far more annoying than anything else. You need to get over yourself.
You are not the only person that reads these posts. You are not the center of the universe!

Zoomba...just because some people have no sense of humor you should NOT re-write articles. There was absolutely nothing wrong with what you wrote the first time. Its just not right that the many of the users here be denied your humor for the sake of a few that are so thin skinned. There are far more serious things happening in the world to be concerned about...your light hearted articles are welcome any time.

No wait!...maybe I should sue for damaging my sense of humor. And I suffer daily migraines now as well...and my back hurts too! Have you no shame Zoomba!

Zoomba, shake it off. Some people are so full of themselves they feel the need to run on the razors edge when it comes to the "right or wrong" thing. I think that they just need to get over it. I'm actually a little surprised at some of the comments from some of the people here towards this. Hmmmm. Either way, I personally think you're doing a fine job with the news and a little funny business here and there is kinda one of the things that helps create a little grey in the world.

To be quite honest with you, Zoomba, I've always found your articles to be interesting and informative....regardless of whether there's a bit of tongue in cheek involved or not...

Sadly, I didn't get to read your original version, but I have no doubt that it was far from being offensive or inappropriate, and thus would hate to see you change writing style based on the narrow minded opinions of some who were either born without funny bones, due to a possible birth defect, or perhaps had them removed due to spoiling their enjoyment of being unhappy, too straight laced and humorless.

You no doubt will have noticed many of my replies to your posts (others too) contain much tongue in cheek.....why? Because life's too serious to be taken seriously, and if ya don't lighten up sometime yer gits grey n' wrinkly prematurely.....

I wholeheartedly agree with WebGizmos, don't change who or what you are to please anyone but yourself.....continue as you always have done, otherwise you're not being true to yourself.

Anyhow, Zoomba, I'll see ya later....I still got two cents ta spend so I'm off ta find another conspiracy theory, gov't coverup.....OS sh!t fight.