54. Customize Your ComputerThe Mac OS X environment looks so slick, you may not want to change a thing. If you crave customization, though, there are several applications designed to make every aspect of your Mac reflect your personality. With one right-click or Control-click, any iPhoto picture becomes a desktop. Want more pizzazz than a still photo? Visage (keakaj.com, $9.95) turns any screensaver, including animated ones, into a desktop background. Don't stop there! CandyBar (www.panic.com, $12.95, as shown in Figure 20) is a powerful icon management system allowing you to substitute holiday, movie, and mood-themed icon sets for every application and system icon on your Mac. Feel free to experiment; a handy reset button eliminates risk, restoring everything to factory defaults with just one click. Figure 20. CandyBar customizes your Mac's icons, allowing you to choose from sets based on holidays, movies and TV shows, themes, and moods.
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