RocketDock

[Shovelhead]

Here's a nice piece of freeware that allows you to dock your quick launch
icons. No problems encountered so far.

http://rocketdock.com/

 

[Joe Diaz]

I've had this for a while. It's a cool little tool. You can customize the heck out of it. Eventually I got tired of it, and it was sort of in my way so I got rid of it. I'm too used to the PC look and feel, I guess. It is cool though.

There are actually full windows to OSX desktop/appearance conversions out there.

 

[sarge]

yea joe .. i am not much into the foo foo stuff .. but i am sure there is allot of folks in here that are

 

[Cross Signs]

I've used this and another like it for years. Love it. Hate desktop icons.

 

[Shovelhead]

I like this one also (shareware). I get bored easily and like to change my
desktop appearance.

http://www.winstep.net/index.asp?cat=winstep

 

[Service Sign Co]

 

[grafxxx]

i got rocket dock but that other one looks way cooler downloading that now.

 

[Joe Diaz]

Well nothing was on the tube last night so I was playing around on my laptop. I created a new user and installed a few things to turn that user accounts appearance to look like OSX Leopard. Well it's not exact, but it is still pretty cool

Now when ever I log on as "mac" it looks like this:


To go back to the windows appearance I just log on to my original account.

Here is what I did. Like I said first I created a new user account then I installed rocket dock:
http://rocketdock.com/

While you are there you can go to the "get addons" then "docklets" section to get some cool new functions for the dock. Especially this one:
http://rocketdock.com/addon/docklets/1791
I also got a date one and a one that shows my laptops battery life.

Now you need to skin the doc to look like OSX Leopard's
This is the best one I found: http://lil-naruto.deviantart.com/art/Leopard-Dock-58072698

Then hang a right at Deviantart and search down OSX style icons. You can customize the dock icons to look how ever you want. The OSX icons should all be there. You just have to do some searching. I would recommend searching for ones that already have the reflections because rocketdock doesn't do the reflections automatically.

Then swing on over to stardock to download windows blinds so that you can re skin windows to look like OSX.
http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

Then download this theme. It's the best one I could find:
http://neodesktop.deviantart.com/art/Leopard-Glass-3-0-with-LeoFox-63760929

Then all you need to do is get the wallpaper:
http://images.google.com/images?q=o...US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Now, there is a program that does a more complete conversion. But I didn't install it because it says it's not totally reversible without doing a system restore. It also says that it edits the registry. So I didn't want to do it. I guess one could set up a dual boot and test it out on one of the OSs. I was just doing it for fun so, so I didn't feel like spending the time needed.
Here is the link: http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/misc/flyakite_osx.html

 

[rollerchicken]

Anyone figure out how to get a "Start" button to work? I have this really nice icon I want to use for the start menu but have now idea what to enter to get it to load.

 

[Shovelhead]

Anyone figure out how to get a "Start" button to work? I have this really nice icon I want to use for the start menu but have now idea what to enter to get it to load.

• add an icon to the dock
• right click icon
• "icon settings"
• link icon to "target"

Restart and shutdown buttons are way handy too.

 

[rollerchicken]

• add an icon to the dock
• right click icon
• "icon settings"
• link icon to "target"

Restart and shutdown buttons are way handy too.

Thanks Shovel. I'll have to give it a shot when I get home. I have the Windows button on my laptop, and can unhide the task bar easily enough but if you can get an icon to do it, it's just cooler.