pc like a mac
Want to make you pc like a mac?
Well there are many things you can do to make your windows xp machine look like a mac. A while ago I was playing around with this on my sony vaio notebook. It was kinda cool and silly at the same time. But it filled in a rainy day and I got me excited (and obsessed!) for a little while. The best article I found to guide through the process of getting the mac look on your pc was this one, at engadget.
James Kendrick over at jkontherun pointed out this article on achieving some of the functionality of a mac.
Some of the suggestions that I am interested in checking out are:
Approcket - One of the most useful apps in OS X for productivity is, in my opinion, Quicksilver (or Launchbar if you like to pay). Approcket attempts to match some of the functionality and look good at the same time, and in many aspects, succeeds. Initially it isn’t nearly as smart as Quicksilver, but with some training can become a useful part of your windows workflow.
My intital reaction is that it seems to be a double up with activewords functionily. Which is one of my most favorite applications on my pc.
FlyAKiteOS - If you really want to make your PC look like OS X (personally I don’t care to do this), FlyAKiteOS is the way to go. It is fully customizable and uninstallable and adds about every visual OS X hack you can imagine (or only those you choose) to your windows system in one fell swoop. For example, if you’re a big fan of the Dock, there are a couple windows clones to choose from, it will make your boot and login screens OS X’ish, change your desktop, cursors, folders, icons, theme and more to emulate (to some extent) OS X. I find that while it’s a novelty to make Windows look like OS X, I always end up reverting back to the windows look to maintain some consistency across applications and because the speed hit you take with all the customizations isn’t worth it. Their site is always down, but you may be able to find it by searching.