I’ve messed with my Chromium theme on and off for a while now. And, here is what I came up with: since Apple is moving toward an iTunes 7 look, why not modify to match iTunes 7, but still hold onto the individuality of the different windows. Even though I am the guy who made Iridium (which started a...
Though membership is open to anyone there are a few simple guidelines that you will need to follow to keep your membership current.
1. Login regularly
If you haven’t logged in in a long time, you might find your account deleted. The deletions are not automatic, I do them manually. So, there is n...
I have been really happy to see the interest in my “tweak themes”. I call them that since they are designed to be installed over existing themes (though some people say they like them over the standard Apple Aqua). I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who decided to sign up for the site so th...
Introducing MacOSX Tigger, the Tiger Apple should have released in the first place. All window shapes match and there are 2 shading options: Unified and Metal.
Since Apple started shipping internal skins in the iLife applications, Iridium doesn’t really provide a Universal UI anymore. Tigger is...
In the spirit of Iridium, let me take a moment to introduce it’s darker sibling: Chromium.
I have been working on a theme that applies the iTunes 7 look to all of MacOS X. I have taken interface elements from iTunes, Iridium, and from many themes built by other people in order to make this work. B...
I feel like I should start this post with something like rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Iridium has not seen an update since v1.9F. That F was meant to stand for final. And, it seems that Iridium still installs fine under 10.4.8, so there is no reason for an update. And, thoug...
Iridium can now run on ANY Macintosh running MacOS X 10.4.5 or later. This includes (but is not limited to) G3, G4, G5, Intel Dev. Boxes, Intel Core Solo, and Intel Core Duo machines.
Again, I would like to thank Colin Cornaby, without whom the Intel-port of Iridium woul...
In a few days, there will be a Universal Binary release of Iridium. It will be titled version 1.9F and will be the final version of Iridium to be hosted here.
Future versions of Iridium will be hosted at macopensource.com
I will continue to maintain the main Iridium skin. Other people can volun...
The requests to continue Iridium have not fallen upon deaf ears. In it’s current state, Iridium will install on all versions of Mac OS X 10.4.x. It was last tested against 10.4.5, but it works fine with 10.4.6 and will continue to function normally with the entire 10.4 series of releases. If an upda...
As the people over at geekspiff point out in the Standards For OS X Themes On Intel Architecture article on their blog, the problems connected to theme generation for Intel macs will eventually be solved. I’m relieved that these guys are being more persistent than I about solving the problem. part...
Iridium is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.5 and IridiumTunes was last updated for iTunes 6.0.2.
I have been thinking about this for a while now. And, it appears that the advent of the new iTunes look (which began in iTunes v5.0) has gotten many application developers to bundle their own iTunes-l...
Christian over at six27 made this wonderful Firefox skin that matches Iridium.
A few people had asked for a Firefox skin but I figured, why try to redo what Christian has already done, beautifully.
Here are the current versions of Iridium:
- for MacOS X 10.4.4
- for MacOS X 10.4.0-10.4.3
- for MacOS X 10.3.0-10.3.9
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A DLTA for ThemeChanger & ShapeShifter
Currently, Iridium is still PPC only. This is because ThemePark cannot read the Extras2.rsrc file unique to the new Intel-based Ma...
I’ve been a busy little techie recently. My writing has suffered for it. I’ve been preoccupied with rebuilding both this site and Iridium. When Apple updated MacOSX to 10.4.4, it had the side effect of uninstalling Iridium. This is because Apple made changes to one of the core files in Iridium Extra...
I am currently seeking assistance from legal owners of Intel-based Macs.
In it’s current form, Iridium will successfully skin any application running under Rosetta, but not native applications on the much anticipated Intel-based macs to be released in 2006.
This is because my edits change mostly...
