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Giants in Tech => Apple => Topic started by: javajolt on September 07, 2010, 04:12:15 AM
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Released couple for days ago, the new iTunes was not really celebrated by all Mac community. Several users do not really understand some choices made by Apple, both on the design and on the interface; without mentioning that iTunes 10 failed to be installed on my MacBook twice from the software update panel... I had to install it from scratch. Why the hell Apple moved the three-color button from its original horizontal position to a vertical one, turning it into a traffic light? Why did we loose all colors on icons? Is it supposed to introduce the new design of Mac OS X.7? So, we decided to collect some tricks aiming to give you back some iTunes 9 feeling in the iTunes 10:
• Do not like the vertical three-color buttons? Put them back horizontal with the following command to be entered in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
• Damien Erambert offers (http://erambert.me/) a script to perform the same job if you are scarred of playing with the Terminal and command lines.
• He is also offering a package to install iTunes 9 icons back. It replaces the file iTunes.rsrc found in the folder "Resources" in the iTunes application package.
• While Steve Jobs announced that music was not on CD anymore, but on HD or SSD, which is true and I agree wit hit, iTunes 10 gets a "ridiculous" blue disk which is not really meaning much. It could have been better to replace the disc by a stylish music note. It is up to you to change your icons, Apple even have a dedicated page explaining the procedure: Mac 101: Change your icons (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2493?viewlocale=en_US). We can also recommend for nice icons the following site: We Love Icons (http://weloveicons.com/?show=25).