Aaron's BeBox is a free package designed to enhance the popular "Coplandizing" extension, Aaron, written by Greg Landweber and Edward Voas. Aaron's BeBox has several options that allow the user to choose several different ways customize their copy of Aaron.
Aaron's BeBox is designed to turn your Mac's interface into something resembling that of the BeBox. (The BeBox, by the way, is a revolutionary new computer that features 2 PowerPC chips, and a 100% native, preemptive multitasking operating system.) Unfortunately, the BeBox costs more than I have at the moment, so that's where this package comes in.
Aaron's BeBox's original life's purpose was to change Aaron's Copland-style folders and icons to the refrshingly different folders featured in the BeBox, a new computer platform from Be, Inc. I heartily recommend you check out the BeBox for yourself. Just point your Web browser to <http://www.be.com>
Aaron's BeBox has a few other nice features. It disables the spinning Zoom Rects in the Finder, displays a more aesthetically correct WindowShade and Zoom Box widget.
New in this release are three other patches that let you adjust Aaron's spinning Zoom Rects in the Finder. Applying these patch to Aaron's BeBox will not only give you the chance to enable the spinning Zoom Rects in the Finder, but you will also have the option to change the number of steps to either 20 or even 30. This creates a much, much smoother spinning effect, but it does slow down your Finder a bit, so I don't recommend using these patches on a slow computer.
Aaron's BeBox also has a Copland Trash Patch. If you're not satisfied with the Aaron's BeBox's Trash can, you can use this patch to have Aaron's BeBox display a Copland-style Trash can.
How to install Aaron's BeBox:
Aaron's BeBox is very easy to install. All you need to do is:
1. Double-click the BeBox Patch.
2. Read the description in the title screen if you'd like. Click "Patch".
3. You'll be asked where Aaron can be found. Go ahead and navigate in the dialog box to your copy of Aaron (which should be in your Extensions folder).
4. Once given the signal, the BeBox Patch will make a copy of Aaron (you'll be prompted to assign Aaron's BeBox a name - be sure to include a tilde ("~") in front of the name.) and then start working on the copy. When finished, the BeBox Patch will inform you everything went okay.
5. The BeBox Patch will make a backup of your original Aaron and rename it something like "~Aaron backup". Be sure to remove this file from the Extensions folder.
6. Make sure that Aaron's BeBox is in your Extensions folder. Restart your computer to see the changes!
The fine print (what fine print?):
After doing a bit of soul-searching, I've decided to distribute Aaron's BeBox as freeware. The only thing I ask if you enjoy using Aaron's BeBox is that you pay the authors of Aaron the asked shareware fee.
However, I'd never turn away a friendly gesture, so if you'd like, feel free to send me something like a postcard or something you've worked on (software, etc.). You can reach me at the addresses below.
If you want to give Aaron's BeBox to a friend or upload it to a BBS, then please include the documentation with it. If you are authoring a book or CD-ROM and would like to include Aaron's BeBox on it, please let me know in advance and we can work something out. My email address is:
