Modding Mac OS X: Extreme Makeovers for Your Mac Book

One of the reasons for the Macintosh's wild popularity is that it empowers Mac users. Mac users can--and frequently do--customize and control their applications, creating exactly the user interface they need or envision. With Mac OS X, Mac users have more power and possibilities than ever before, but in Mac OS X some of those possibilities are also hidden a little deeper than ever before. Modding Mac OS X: Extreme Makeovers for your Mac uncovers dozens (scores, zillions, scads, more than 2X) of creative ways to hack the user interface for both Mac OS X and the applications that run upon it. This new book is a clear, jargon-free, hands-on map to customizing your Mac OS X applications using the newest tools. It covers everything from hacking the preferences, enabling and disabling plug-ins, to using the Terminal and applications like the Property List Editor to tweak files and edit resources. Modding Mac OS X also explores how to use cool tools (such as Interface Builder and Apple's new User Interface scripting suites) to do quick, practical things like changing an application s menus and windows, or adding dialogs, buttons, and key equivalents. Learn how to... Change Desktop Themes Give Your Dock a Makeover Go Application Dumpster Diving Explore Application and System Resources Change System and Alert Sounds Customize Application Icons Hack Property List Files Discover Undocumented Preferences Alter an Application's Interface Change Keyboard Shortcuts Script the Unscriptable and more... If you want to make Mac OS X yours to take Mac OS X and the applications that run on it far beyond the user interface that even Apple envisioned; to tweak and experiment, to create and refine, to customize and control--and have some fun doing it--Modding Mac OS X: Unleashing Your Inner Mac is an indispensable guide.Read More