There have been tutorials about using the Jabber features in iChat to connect to many IM systems (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc). I have tried to use this set up from time to time but always reverted to just directly connecting to AIM/ICQ because the gateways that I could find were just too flaky (they...
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...
About a month and a half ago, a friend of mine messaged me and was all kinds of happy because coconutBattery reported that his Powerbook battery was reporting that it was better than it was the day it was new. I thought this was funny at the time. And, of course it got me thinking about my Powerbo...
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.
H Double-T P is a hack of Apple’s Google widget.
Personally, I don’t really need a widget to search Google. My browser has a search box in the upper right corner. So, having a widget to search google didn’t save me enough clicks to be of help.
BUT…
If I am in another application and my web brow...
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...
Peter van der Krogt posted details of J. Carrington Sellars Chemistianity on the web. Realizing that I was building a new look for MacOSX that echoed Apple’s old Platinum, I started looking around the web for information about metals that were similar to Platinum. When I reached Peter’s site, this...
Bandar Raffah is the designer responsible for the incredibly cute Tux-n-tosh icons. Back in 2003, he designed an icon set called Feelsright, and I do agree, it does “feel right.” I have only had to make some small adjustments to the pack to make it fit Iridium. And, Bandar has started to produce...
Bandar Raffah has graciously allowed me to use his Feelsright icons in Iridium. I am honored to include such a wonderful set of icons in my download. Other recent changes to Iridium include improved skinning of the Drawers. It’s nearly done, and hopefully, you will be able to download it soon.
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