Desktility for Mac OS 10.4 or later incorporates Desktop Resetter's ability to save and restore your desktop-icon positions; it also saves and restores the positions of the windows of your applications.
Just like going to a fancy restaurant, you don’t always have to order what’s printed on the menu -- especially if you install this little OS X hack. FruitMenu lets you customize OS X menus, including Contextual Menus, the way you want. Add folders and files to menus; assign hot keys to files, folders, or tasks; access your user System Preferences from a submenu; open any file in an app of your choice from a Contextual Menu; set your desktop pic in a click; and a whole lot more.
If you are interested in protecting your documents and folders, Hide Folders is just what you are searching for. With a click, you will conceal files and folders with all their contents. The app is simple and natural to use because it works just as you are used to doing things every day with your Mac. With this program you will protect your files, keeping them from being modified, seen, or erased by other users.
Bring back colored folders and files to your Mac desktop with this cool tool. If you miss being able to flag pertinent icons with a color scheme, Labels X brings this function to the OS X desktop. Plus, any file or folder you label in OS X will carry its coloring over to OS 9, too.
Mac OS XP 2.5
freeware
Max Rudberg, http://homepage.mac.com/max_08/
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3 or later
Change the look of your OS X windows, menus, menu bar, controls, and more with this port of Windows XP’s Luna, Silver, and Homestead appearances. This theme package also includes icons, desktop pictures, and Dock skins to complete your matching desk set.
Menu Master is a haxie that allows you to change or remove menu shortcut keys in any application with ease. Additionally, you can set shortcuts to menu items that have no shortcuts, or remove shortcuts from menu items.
If you’re sick and tired of looking at the same old boring black-and-white arrow cursor, you’re in for a treat. This way cool tool allows you to change not only the arrow, but the spinning wheel-o’-death, the I-beam, and many other cursor-type icons. Instead of modifying OS X’s default system graphics, Mighty Mouse loads a replacement theme set, so you don’t have to worry about ruining the originals.
Name those Files allows you to quickly and easily get a handle on your ever increasing file collections. You love your new digital camera but the file names are less than helpful. NtF! to the rescue! With NtF!, you just select a source folder and then you can rename all of the files contained therein with a more helpful name that optionally includes a prefix or suffix including the date, numbered counters, custom text, etc.
If you loved Kaleidoscope back in the classic days of the Mac OS, this app brings back the interface tweakery to OS X. ShapeShifter allows you to change the look of windows, buttons, menus, and other GUI elements by installing a theme set over the system originals -- it doesn’t modify the existing graphics, so you don’t have to worry about messing up your system.
Silk enables the Quartz text rendering and smoothing introduced in Mac OS 10.1.5 in all Carbon applications. Moreover, it can substitute one font with another in your applications, and change the theme font (the font used to display menus, window titles, and other interface elements).
Smart Crash Reports is an enhancement for Apple's CrashReporter application introduced in Mac OS 10.4. It allows third-party developers to register their products in a manner such that if the eligible application crashes, the crash log is sent to the developer as well as Apple. This allows developers to receive crashes and improve their software in a timely manner -- a benefit for the user, as well.
VelaClock is a Dashboard widget that provides local times, daylight hours, moon phase info, and country flags for cities throughout the world. It also displays the current level of natural light (daylight, twilight, or night).
When your Dell dies prematurely, that cursor can still live on. Windows-ish, as the name suggests, gives you a white-on-black cursor, like the one used in Window operating systems, except with better Quartz-Extreme-style antialiasing.
WorkStrip 3.2.2
demo
Softchaos, http://www.softchaos.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 or later
WorkStrip 3 is a multifaceted file-management tool with an intuitive file-tracking system. Not only does it handle the mundane task of all filing requirements, but it also enables quick and easy access to them thanks to its file-preview feature. Floating above your desktop, WorkStrip 3 is a sophisticated alternative to the Dock.
