First download is a collection of 40 Apperance themes for Mac OS 8.5 (WARNING: some themes are incompatible with Mac OS 8.5-8.6 and will cause major issues, including constant crashing) or later.  Here is the list: 2999 A.D....

About Surged! Surged! is Freeware by Adam Betts & Michael Rabe Made for Mac OS 8.5 and higher that changes the appearance of Your Mac.    How To Install the Surged! • Drag and Drop “Surged!” on to the...

SuperApple is a control panel that changes the apple icon on top/right corner for a B&W animation.  SuperApple comes with 22 pre-made animations but you can also make your own and copy/paste them in SuperApple to save/install them!  

Allows the user to hide the menubar, while allowing the use of the menus either by clicking where the menubar should be or by using the keyboard command of the menu item the user wants to use. Bartender was originally written for a Pippin...

Theme Information IrieMac v1.1 MacOS Appearance Theme. If you have v1.0.1 or v1.0.2 you should update to v1.1. This Theme was design to represent my web site IrieMac. http://www.iriemac.com that why I name the Theme IrieMac. This program is...

Kaleidescope was a program designed for the Mac operating system that allowed you to customize your Macintosh's interface using "Schemes" (themes).  Some Schemes came bundled with Kaleidescope while others created by Kaleidoscope...

ShapeShifter lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac OS X computer using themes, very much like Kaleidoscope did with earlier classic Mac OS versions.  It can change the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, cursors and more.

The generic Startup Screen can be replaced and customized by pasting a new PICT file into the resource PICT for the Startup Screen. Whenever editing System Files, be cautious and create a duplicate of the System File to ensure that any active...

Window Monkey lets users choose a background pattern picture that fills the white behind the Finder windows.  Window Monkey also adds a new menu item in the right hand corner of the menu bar listing all open apps windows and recent used...

The Vortex theme changes the appearance of your Mac (Mac OS 8.5 up to 9.2.2) and is freeware by Michael Rabe. How To Install the Vortex theme: • Drag and Drop “Vortex” on to the CLOSED Systems Folder. it will say "This...

The Warper allows you to customize the visual aspects of your Macintosh Finder according to your tastes.  You can choose between 20 complete preconfigurations, or create your own using the extensive bank of graphic resources (highly limited in...

If you are using MacOS 8.0 or later, you already have the Appearance Manager so this file is not useful to you, but for those of you using MacOS 7.1 - 7.6.1, after installing this, your Macintosh will have the MacOS 8 Platinum Appearance. This will...

Changes your cursor for a bondi blue cursor. Looks to have been made using parts of CursorAnimator 2.0.1  

Kolor is used in conjunction with the Control Panel.  It creates resources which are used by the various Managers as default color tables if an application hasn't supplied them.  As of this writing, very few programs written for the...

Halo Sound Set is an Apperance Manager Sound Set file containing sound effects from the game Halo.  It adds events sounds to the Finder in Mac OS 8 and 9.  Halo Sound Set also contains 3 AIFF sound clips from that same game.  You...

Many cool sound sets for Mac OS 8.5 thru 9.2.2 Appearance Manager. The first 35 sound sets archive contains the following: Acid SoundSet AKIRA Sound Set Aqua SoundSet 1.0 Clickz 1.0 DrawingBoard Sounds Dune Sound Set Final...

Mac Identifier is a control panel designed for users who can't stand the thought of their Mac not knowing its own model designation or what itself looks like :P Mac Identifier 2.2 effectively lets you change the icon and text that appears in the...

Customize your mouse cursor by animating, changing its size, or using custom cursors made by users, you, or imported from Windows XP made ones.

MICN is a control panel which allows you to change their menubar text labels for (B&W) icons.  In MICN, you can draw B&W icons directly in the control panel and they're saved internally.  Many pre-made icons are...

Fat Cursors  is a system control panel that installs slightly larger Arrow and IBeam cursors.  If you've ever seen the standard cursors on a PowerBook 180c, or if you just have a hard time finding the cursor on your screen, you'll...