Modding Mac OS X: Extreme Makeovers for Your Mac

Description

This new book is a clear, jargon-free, hands-on map to customizing your Mac OS X applications using the newest tools. It covers everything from hacking the preferences, enabling and disabling plug-ins, to using the Terminal and applications like the Property List Editor to tweak files and edit resources. Modding Mac OS X also explores how to use cool tools (such as Interface Builder and Apple's new User Interface scripting suites) to do quick, practical things like changing an application s menus and windows, or adding dialogs, buttons, and key equivalents.

Learn how to...

Change Desktop Themes

Give Your Dock a Makeover

Go Application Dumpster Diving

Explore Application and System Resources

Change System and Alert Sounds

Customize Application Icons

Hack Property List Files

Discover Undocumented Preferences

Alter an Application's Interface

Change Keyboard Shortcuts

Script the Unscriptable