Leopard went on sale October 26th, 2007. Since then, talking about Mac themes has felt a little like talking about seeing unicorns, elves, and a beautiful mythical land where you could change the colors of your environment at will. Well, I’m finally standing in that mythical land again. I haven’t spotted unicorns, but I have been able to change a color or two, courtesy of the first app to hit the market, Magnifique.
What’s all this, then?
If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ve got a brand-spankin’ new layout for the front page. As you may have ventured from the lack of posting activity, we’ve struggled keeping the front page maintained with news on a regular basis, and it was about time we revisited our system to make things interesting for the people that love MacThemes and have made it so great for all these years. Here’s our solution in detail.
There is, I believe, a total of 47* iTunes controller apps. Their rise and fall usually follows the formula n-y3, where n represents initial excitement at some cool quirky design element; y represents the eventually realization that they aren’t worth the memory they consume; and 3 represents me failing basic algebra. And the small handful of included visual styles helps them get old fast.
So understandably, when I saw the release of Bowtie, I couldn’t help but think, “Really, another one?” Today, after a few weeks of great designers taking full advantage of the CSS and JavaScript core of the app, I’ve instead been thinking, “Really! Another one!!” So I sat down at Chateau Marmont* with coder Matt Patenaude and designer Laurent Baumann to ask them some questions on their iTunes controller addition.
* A gross exaggeration. I actually did the entire thing via email but tried very hard to picture the Chateau Marmont in my head the whole time.