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March 16, 2004
It's Spiffy Interface Day!
Hey Interface Freaks! We've released ShapeShifter 1.2 and Mighty Mouse 1.1.3 today for your eye candy goodness. ShapeShifter 1.2 is a pretty huge update. Since he said it better than I did, I'd like to quote Phill Ryu of MacThemes on the important features in the new update. The full list is on the download page. The 1.2 update brings several other key features that improve the user's experience considerably. The loading of kits has been greatly sped up, resulting in perhaps a 99% reduction in load time on this machine. Metal textures are now properly applied, fixing a long standing bug, and ShapeShifter also adds special links that allow users to download guiKits from within the application with a single click from their web browser. iTunes style built-in file management is now enabled, and there is support for .theme, for those interested in installing themes designed for 10.1 and before. In other words, users should be extremely happy with this huge update. The new ShapeShifter release also bundles Swiz's excellent update to SimpleX and jGraphics' spiffy update to Digital Device. These both take advantage of ShapeShifter's new integrated app skins. Mighty Mouse 1.1.3 is more of a bug fix release than a set of enhancements. It's certified (finally!) for use with Panther and removes some issues in which playing games or putting a machine to sleep could remove the customized cursors. We're really glad that these products have become as popular as they have. Please keep on giving us great feedback on them so we can continue to make your Mac look and act like you want it to!   Posted by jason at March 16, 2004 06:39 AMTrackback Pings: TrackBack URL for this entry: Related:
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Very happy with both and glad to see my MM working as it was still hanging under OS X 10.3.2, but now that's gone. Thanks Jason. Posted by: CREB on March 16, 2004 7:53 AMcmon guys.. rebuild the whole blog site in the MT admin, so your pages match..hmm oh, unless you havn'et built templates for the new look and feel for those pages, in that case, you should have waited, i liked the old look better anyways.. Posted by: on March 16, 2004 11:54 AMI don't mind the changes and I'm thankful I'm allowed to post at this blog. Change takes time...time is sometimes hard to find. As one of my professors always said, "One percent of something is better one-hundred percent of nothing." I'd say there's a whole lot more than one percent here. Many thanks to the Unsanity crew. Posted by: CREB on March 16, 2004 12:12 PMIn an on-topic post, I want to say both thanks and to more or less shower you guys with praise. It may not look like a huge update for SS to some, but I really like it. Basically the same, but it's much more usable, from the prefpane improvements and especially, Safari theming. Most themes I'm using seem to work just fine with Safari as it is, so it'll only get better once themers actually take advantage of this and make things even better. Other than that, the speed improvement is great, since it tended to be horribly slow before... and the much-improved guikit management is definitely welcome, too. I told myself if the SS update was as good as I was hoping, I'd finally register, and yup... quite pleased here. Posted by: Michael Salbato on March 16, 2004 4:29 PMDoes Shape Shifter 1.2 support 10.3.3 ? I didnt notice a compatibility 'chart' anywhere.. thanks -dok Posted by: doktorp on March 17, 2004 8:17 AMdoktorp - yes, ShapeShifter 1.2 is compatible with 10.3.3 Posted by: Brian on March 17, 2004 10:00 AMWhat an incredible amount of functionality to add in a point release. Very awesome, keep up the good work :) Now all we need is for SS to allow theme authors to escape the confines of Aqua. Posted by: Chris on March 18, 2004 9:05 PMThe new Mighty Mouse is great. The cursor now stays during the password box when coming back from a locked screen, etc. Posted by: Ken on March 19, 2004 8:57 AMShapeShifter 1.2 has a small bug that I've noticed since I installed the update. The problem is with using "Scroll to here" in the Appearance pane of System Preferences when using Column View. If enough items are in a folder where the list goes beyond the end of the screen by between 1-2 screens you see an elongated scroll bar that you can slide up and down. If you click the space below the elongated bar it should "Scroll to here". Instead, it bounces right back to the top again. Posted by: Paul Randall on March 21, 2004 5:01 AMI use OS X 10.2.8. Is there a location where I can get Shapeshifter 1.2 or a version that will work with my OS? Posted by: Fred Young on June 20, 2006 8:53 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated. |