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If you are just wondering why would anyone need UI Enhancement apps for OS X then you got me at the right time. While being one of the most elegantly designed OS’es out there, OS X still lacks some stuff which these enhancements can fill up.

So go ahead and see how they work for you..

• 1. Backdrop

Backdrop is a useful application for taking screenshots with limited windows in the foreground so they are much more presentable to others.

Price: Free

• 2. CandyBar

Many great applications sadly have not-so-great graphic designers behind them, and often their icons for and within the application are not quite up to standard, CandyBar solves this by replacing icons. You can download iconsets produced by others or manually assign them yourself and you are not limited to just the applications installed on your system, but the system itself, you can all icons from the hard drive icons to the individual folder types.

Price: $12.95

• 3. Desktop Magik

Bored with static backgrounds? You can now set videos and websites as your desktop background.

Price: $12.95

• 4. Doodim

To help you concentrate on the task in hand, Doodim “dims” all but the current application window(s).

Price: Free

• 5. Shapeshifter

Tired of the standard OS X look or looking to try out a mock-up of a “illuminous” theme? Shapeshifter can restyle the whole user interface to however you want, and there isn’t a lack of downloads waiting.

Price: $20.00

• 6. MegaZoomer

When people switch to Mac OS X the first thing they tend to become annoyed with is the way in which you cannot usually “full screen” an application like you can on a Windows machine. MegaZoomer returns this power to the user.

Price: Free

• 7. MenuShade

With new monitors being brighter and brighter, the top menu bar can often distract or hurt your eyes, MenuShade allows you to fade it, or even totally hide it.

Price: Free

• 8. Spirited Away

Unless your on a nice big monitor your desktop can quickly get cluttered with application windows that you may not be using. Spirited Away hides windows that have not seen activity for a set amount of time.

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Price: Free

• 9. Uno

One of my pet hates about Mac OS X is the way in which some applications have the brushed metal look, some have the smooth metal look, and so on. Uno solves this problem and unifies the user interface.

Price: Free

• 10. Virtue Desktops

If you simply cannot wait for Leopard to be released, you can get your hands on “Spaces”-type, multi-desktop functionality.

Price: Free

So get going and try these apps today and let me know how they work for you..

Firefox is improving everyday. Its get more user friendly with every passing build. The latest addition that has been added to firefox is the smooth tab scrolling. Instead of the rough tab by tab stepping, tabs now slide in a continuous soft movement whenever you scroll them with the mouse wheel, add a new one or change to a different tab beyond the current visible section.

See the following flash demo to see what Smooth tab Scrolling feels like,

I downloaded the latest copy, and you know what its a lot smoother than the video seems to make it.

If anyone wants to turn it off, set toolkit.scrollbox.smoothScroll to false in about:config and restart Firefox.