Kaleidoscope for Mac

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Developer’s Description

By Joe Stenger and Arlo Rose

Personalize your Mac's interface with this ultra-popular program.

Kaleidoscope is a powerful utility that gives your Macintosh a complete visual overhaul, letting you choose from thousands of different interface designs, using plug-in files called schemes. Kaleidoscope patches nearly all of the Macintosh interface, including the basic windows, scroll bars, menus, and buttons under System 7, as well as the popup windows, tabs, beveled buttons, and sliders in Mac OS 8.

Kaleidoscope 2.0 (known as K2) was a huge step forward in interface customization. In addition to running old Kaleidoscope schemes faster, more reliably, and with less RAM, version 2.0 offered non-rectangular windows, enhanced menus, background patterns, double-headed scrollbars, tabs, sliders, cursors, and many other enhancements.

In version 2.3, Kaleidoscope offered enhanced menu effects (in schemes that support them), including transparency and extended borders with eight-bit masks. For transparent menus in other schemes, you must use Power Windows. This version fixes many bugs and adds better compatability with other programs. To view all changes, click here.

Kaleidoscope for Mac

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GENERAL

Release: February 22, 2001

Latest update: February 29, 2024

Version: 2.3.1

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System: Mac OS X

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 574,896

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

3.3/5

26 User Votes

wanted free cursors>not $20.00 cursors
11manfred70February 26, 2008
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did not download>bait & switch
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same as step 3
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This is an incredible piece of classic software.
September 9, 2004
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Kaleidoscope is easy to use and lets you dramatically effect your computer's themes. There are also many themes for Kaleidoscope to download off the internet. I would give this a 10 for it's idea and ability to carry it out, and I do not grant high marks so easily.
unlimited designs
March 2, 2003
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there are so many schemes and you can make your own. i love this program!
A MUST HAVE
April 23, 2002
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Life would be dull without it.
March 10, 2002
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Easy to use, makes your Mac even cooler
January 5, 2002
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There are so many Kaleidoscopic themes that it's not hard to find one you really like. People walk by my monitor and ask what I did to make my Mac's desktop, and I just smile.
Easy to use, makes your Mac even cooler
January 5, 2002
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There are so many Kaleidoscopic themes that it's not hard to find one you really like. People walk by my monitor and ask what I did to make my Mac's desktop, and I just smile.
nice for a change
October 3, 2001
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would like to make my own. havent figured it out yet...
RULES!
September 15, 2001
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This program rules, any way you cut it. With this, ResEdit, and iCondropper/iControl, you can overhaul your whole Mac!
simple to use & works great! fun program!
September 1, 2001
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