And you really don’t want to have to reinstall your complete OS because of a mod gone wrong. If you do anything wrong at all, or ever want to reverse what you’ve done, you’ll need the original files you’ve modified. NOTICE: MAKE BACKUPS OF ALL FILES YOU DELETE OR MODIFY If you leave it as it is it’ll generally be a huge distraction from the whole setup being so dark, and really it’s a lot more impressive if you have a dark menu bar to show off. The trick here is getting this thing to turn black, so it fits the whole dark thing. (click it to see it in HD!!! it looks quite awesome in real life!) This ‘menu bar’ that I speak of is the thing at the top of your screen, forgive me if I’m talking to much in depth but I want to cover all my bases □ Hardest things first alright? If you can pull this off without a hitch, then you’re set to go for the rest of this tutorial thing easy easy. I’ll link to everything you need for each part as we go through this thing. The only thing is the damn thing costs 29 bucks, which for some may be affordable, and for others not so much. With it you can easily change nearly any icon in your system, from folders to hard-drives and apps, and at the same time keep everything easily reversible in case you ever want to change stuff around or go back to the good times with default icons. Not to be melodramatic, but without it a lot in your system will be lacking for many reasons. THE ABSOLUTE MOST IMPORTANT APP is CandyBar. There’s a huge list of apps out there that you could use, some freeware, some donation-ware, others shareware, and still many many more that require some monetary concessions on your part. It is extremely helpful in system wide mods, and makes your computer look very nice for minimal effort. The only app that I highly recommend you need to have that actually requires payment is called ‘CandyBar’, and can be found here. Luckily the things I used for the most part are free, except for one… So be prepared to download a lot of stuff if you really want to go all in and mod your computer. Unless you are some mega-hacker genius of course. This is absolutely essential, YOU NEED SOFTWARE. Mine is pretty awesome, and in case you’d like a copy here’s a link. Pick the background first, and after that model whatever you do to fit it. If you want cohesion and something to wrap your mind around, start with a picture of what you want to end with, the biggest aspect of this being your desktop background. I went at this whole thing with a random shotgun style just finding what I could and implementing it along the way, but that might or might not be your style. Also, this has been created on my iMac, but the actual modded computer is my macbook, so the how to bit will show screenshots very much undark at times. Quick info for those curious, this tutorial is ridiculously in depth and long, take what you need from it. I am by no means an artist or programmer, so credit where credit’s due. The biggest aspect of this whole project is that I’ve done nothing more than pull together what others have created. An awesome app a buddy of mine, Raadgie, tipped me off on, and after seeing this insane wallpaper I had to go with it. The theme is, need I say, dark transmission. Now… this is fairly extensive, but if you have all the parts set up already it’s really fairly simple, and shouldn’t take more than maybe a few hours, but it is well worth it in my humblest of opinions. Desktop Screenshots are very popular online, everybody likes to brag □ Essentially, after a few days and countless hours searching, I managed to pull together what I would personally consider an aesthetically pleasing desktop for my Macbook, it looks more or less like this. When i tried this out my first time a few days back it took me a few days to get everything down right, scouring the internetz for others on similar quests. The point of this is essentially to present how to create a black ‘dark’ theme for snow leopard in a very easy DYI style, easy cause I’m pulling all the parts together for ya. Just scroll down and look for large font similar to this to mark each section. *Use CandyBar and the Internet/DeviantArt to reformat your system icons *Manipulate both your login screen and Boot Image *Use GeekTools to get Time, Date, and other info on your desktop *Reformat the Menu Bar to become translucent black
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