#THEMES FOR MAC FOR MAC OS X#
#THEMES FOR MAC MAC OS X#
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By contrast, working on icons, buttons, and other widgets that can tweak the Mac interface requires pixel-level attention. Martians have particularly keen vision, but the strength lies mostly in identifying distant objects - such as Earth. What none of us anticipated was the strain that working with such teeny-tiny graphics would place on our eyes. Some Martians turned their talents to icon design, and others to developing images for decorating the desktop. Meanwhile, what started out as a design challenge did not diminish. and this work produced some little apps as well. While learning Cocoa, we've also dabbled a bit in AppleScript, Unix shell scripts, and other languages. The technique involved use of a small Cocoa plugin called 'SetAlphaValue.' The use of this plugin gradually led us up the rather steep learning curve for the main software architecture behind Mac applications: Cocoa. While developing one theme in particular - then known simply as 'Crystal Clear' - we discovered a way to incorporate transparency into Mac windows. At the same time, our experience in web design and development made working on Dashboard Widgets and other HTML-based desktop apps a logical endeavor.

#THEMES FOR MAC MAC OS X#

What started out as intrigue about the possibilities of changing the look and feel of the Mac OS X interface, 'Aqua,' turned into a raging passion. Over the years, the designers and programmers here on Mars have come up with a slew of cool ideas, designs, and software. It also disables CCI automatically for Photoshop on Mountain Lion.

#THEMES FOR MAC FOR MAC OS X#

This release adds support for Mac OS X 10.8.3. 05.31.13 Updates for Mac OS X 10.8.4Д«oth CCI and Crystal Black have been updated to add support for Mac OS X 10.8.4 when it is released. If you downloaded an earlier version of 1.6.5 and have an uninstaller that doesn't work on 10.8.4, you may download the updated one here. The correct uninstaller has now been incorporated into the download for CB 1.6.5. 06.14.13 Updated Crystal Black UninstallerД¬rystal Black 1.6.5 was recently released with an incorrect uninstaller for Mac OS X 10.8.4. The new versions also can be installed and uninstalled safely on the developer preview (only) of Mac OS X 'Mavericks,' though they do not incorporate Mavericks system graphics. 07.22.13 Updates for Mountain Lion and MavericksД«oth CCI and Crystal Black have been updated for Mac OS X 10.8.5 when it's released. 10.23.13 Mars Themes Will Not Support MavericksДevelopment for the Mars Themes software will not be extended to support Mac OS X Mavericks, as Leland Scott explains in a brief blog article.

#THEMES FOR MAC UPDATE#

(I no longer support any of the software described on this site, but I've left innocuous things like widgets available even though they don't work quite right in El Capitan.) Eventually, I'll update the text to make clear what software is not available for download anymore. Our Latest Messages 03.08.16 Most Software Downloads Disabled.Д«elatedly, I've removed the links to download various software packages I no longer support.