I don’t want to play in a sandbox where Apple has clearly marked it’s territory in cautionary yellow. It’s ironic that Apple has in a way made the icon creation, publishing an artform by giving the icon resource so much more prominence, but unfortunately “turning to stone” the once great idea of flexible customization to “think different”. I’m convinced Apple is going to kill the Desktop and transform user productivity by reducing the user experience to the level of 8year olds playing Angry-friggin’-Birds and listening to YA-Beatles(FFS my ears are bleeding!). While much of the Apple community conforms into a single file line into AppStore awaits on standby for their delousing and frontal lobotomy, I’m gonna stay in Snow Leopard indefinitely as I see no benefit to surfing the current OS wave and upgrading for update sake. Really a sad day for all desktops as we welcome in DULL-AS-DISHWATER UE and UI. This is a nice gesture from you all at Panic. Thanks for reading! If you have any questions, please contact CandyBar updated for 10.8, but changing system icons won’t work forever, so CandyBar is now free and unsupported - and may turn into something new at The Iconfactory later. If you bought CandyBar from us, you will of course be considered if something new shows up. They’ve got some thoughts on CandyBar’s future, and where they might take it from here. We’re handing the reins of CandyBar over to our friends at The Iconfactory. So where does CandyBar go from here? Well, there’s the other half of the app: the convenient icon organizer, and Quick Drop icon changer, that many of us use often. If interested, e-mail the Iconfactory.) Finally, CandyBar heads to The Iconfactory. (Also, if you bought CandyBar from us in July or so, we will refund you. Then, here’s a serial number everyone can use:Įven if technically unsupported, CandyBar is still super cool. We hope you enjoy it. That said, being CandyBar fans, we’ll strive to keep CandyBar up-to-date with minor 10.8 releases, so you can keep using it for the foreseeable future! But, if something major changes, on the level of the Dock changes in 10.8, we can’t guarantee compatibility.įirst, here’s the latest build of the app: Since we’re unsure about the long-term future of changing system icons, we’re not comfortable charging money for CandyBar, and we’re also not comfortable simply making it disappear, instead we’re going to make the current CandyBar free - but unsupported. So, what do we do? Now free, and unsupported. It seems clear to us that there will undoubtedly come a time (soon?) when CandyBar can no longer customize system icons at all. (You can still customize the indicator lights!) Also, CandyBar still can’t change the internal icons of Mac App Store apps, due to code signing.ĬandyBar, although simply changing files on disk, has always fallen into a slightly-uncomfortable-for-us grey area of existence. This should install the version of OS X that you had installed.A quick update on CandyBar! Updated for 10.8.įirst, we’ve updated CandyBar for Mac OS X 10.8! You can now customize the 10.8 system icons. Just launch the app and click the big “Update” button to get the latest IconData.īut there’s a catch, or two: in Mountain Lion, Apple changed how the Dock is rendered, so it’s no longer possible to customize the Dock’s look. I suggest using Ethernet if possibleīecause it is three times faster than wireless. Note : You will need an active Internet connection. Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button. The Erase button and wait until the process has completed. The Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.ģ. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.Ģ. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.ġ. ![]() Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
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