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Mac OS X Dock Clones for Windows XP/Vista

Klaus Kjeldsen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:14:13 +0000

A general component in Mac OS X is the Dock, which provide a graphical user interface feature used to launch applications and switch between running applications. If you use Microsoft Windows as operation system free Dock clones are available too. Actually there are a number of alternatives, where I believe the best ones are these:

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The below is a screenshot of RocketDock using the Vista Black theme/skin, which comes with the application. RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher, and currently my choice. It provides a nice clean interface to drop and organize shortcuts for easy access.

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The quality of icons can be a bit of a problem since poor quality icons scale badly, however, many generally used applications now have high quality icons, e.g. Microsoft Office 2007, VLC Player, Skype, iTunes, Safari etc. For applications that lack of a quality icon, the RockDock provide a icon gallery, where you can find various icons for generally known applications. But to make it all much easier, this page provide a joint collection of icons from the icon gallery, which might fill your needs. Some of the application icons are:

Microsoft Office XP/2003
Recycle Bin
Internet Explorer
Outlook Express
Firefox
Thunderbird
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Joost
CCleaner
Total Commander
WinRAR
and many more…

Get the zipped icon collection – DOWNLOAD

If you like to modify your Windows machine to look almost like Mac OS X, this article provide an amount of tools to do that. But if you really want to go that way, you might want to drop windows, and go Mac…

Black Windows XP (Vista like) Theme

Klaus Kjeldsen — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:05:31 +0000

As an alternative to the standard blue, olive and silver themes in windows XP, Microsoft has released an aesthetic black and blue themes respectively named Royale Noir and Royale. The skins are refreshingly different compared to the traditional Windows XP themes named Luna.

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Below is a screenshot of the Royale Noir skin:

Below is a screenshot of the blue Royale skin:

The Royale themes are new themes for Windows XP that have been leaked out of Microsoft. The theme appears to have come out of a beta version of Windows Media Center 2005 that was in testing. The Royale themes are aesthetic themes and comes with two color schemes Royale (a blue theme) and Royale Noir (a black theme). The Royale theme is refreshingly different to the traditional Windows XP Luna theme.

Just download the theme and extract the .zip into “C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\”, open the folder Royale Noir (“C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Royale Noir\”) and doubleclick the “luna.msstyles”. Select “Royale” or “Royale Noir” from color scheme.

Black Royale Theme for Windows XP

Klaus Kjeldsen — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:08:12 +0000

As an alternative to the standard blue, olive and silver themes in windows XP, the Royale Noir Theme Pack provide a new black and blue theme.

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More about Windows themes here.

Black Theme for Windows XP – Zune

Klaus Kjeldsen — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:21:32 +0000

Microsoft Windows XP Zune Theme

Windows XP - Zune

Download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078