For all the OSX brushed metal fans...

(I know there aren't that many here at Neowin, but this is for the few who do!)

3 styles, Glass, Black Glass and iTunes, each with both Tahoma 8 and Lucida Grande 9 versions.

Matching wallpapers (including one in screenshot).

Also included (permissions in zip):

OSX4XP Cursor set by Binary

Yz Toolbars by Voodoo and sciphan

BIG thanks to Stevie BM, inspired the iTunes version and let me use some resources from his (amazing) up-coming project...

This also means thanks to Binary (again), and also Max, whos caption buttons are used in the iTunes variant. His e-mail bounced (multiple times) so if he had any doubts about the use of the buttons he may ask them to be removed and I will do so immediately.

Thanks guys

Make sure you enable ClearType for that extra bit of accuracy!

Screeny:



Download @ DA

nice stuff

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice theme

Another job well done b0se! Keep it up.

Tis all good b0se ....

Radish™

keep rocking......

One small thing tho, maybe you could make the start panel username black in color? Without cleartype, the text doesn't look that good.

You rock again b0se! Well done!

Bold the start panel username font, remove shadows in the statusbar and toolbar and it should look better.

damn that looks good

nice work b0se. no suprises here, aboslutely top notch

you need to release a really crappy theme, we are too spoiled by your amazing work

Looks great man

There are some great themers/artists here on Neowin, some of which I can say I'm glad to have worked with, and you are by all means one of them (great themer that is). Indeed, you can crank them out as fast as some can think of them. Great work on this and all your current works.

Great work b0se!!

Nice indeed....

awww great work b0se keep it up

I'm not usually a big fan of Mac styles but I was really impressed with this. I love the glyphs on the captionbars in 'Glass' mode!

Thanks for the comments!

@Cyber: Taken on board, will probably do that in the update, bar the bold user name

@hornett: Glad you like them, was quite pleased the way they turned out in the end, took many iterations before they got like that

Looks good mate!!

Quality stuff, as always.
Not very original though... has been done a couple of times, mainly by KoL (Brushed Panther, iTunes).

nice work b0se....looks great

woah woah woah !!!

That theme looks awesome.

I just have one problem (well its probably my stupidity) but I don't get the same thing as you.

Look at the attached picture ...

Classy stuff is there a matching msgina.dll for that brushed metal look ?

You need Yz toolbar to get the effect in the screenshot. You can get it here. The toolbar theme is included with the msstyle already.

i'm not a huge fan of the brushed metal, but the wall named aquanewgrey.jpg sure goes well with Opus Natural!

I'll try it out. Thanks

Sweet VS!
Are the icons in the screenshot SnowE2? Where can I get a shell32 of that? Could someone upload it if it's not anywhere else? That would be really great!

Get it at the download section at Hardware Geeks...

There's a bug with the vertical taskbar and using the large folder view. It's not even being skinned. Take a look at the pic:

hmm the cursor included in the theme becomes ugly if you drag something with it

nice thanx

Thanks for the comments

Regarding the vertical taskbar, sorry, but its not designed for that since its an OSX clone...

Thanks for the toolbar bug report, will fix that!

i have 2 question for u about this vs.


1. what software are u using for this tool bar


2 where can i get these icons

still nothing

Top pic is Yz Toolbar

no the Yz toolbar is for the ie icons im talkin about the mac dock toolbar

It's Y'Z Dock

I am looking here http://www.designtechnika.com to find Y'Z Dock and I just can't seem to get it. I see all the Y'Z software stuff and the toolbar thing but I cannot find the dock.

I know a lot of people do not make these but I was wondering if I could request a Windows Media Player toolbar skin to match this theme. Maybe a WMP skin also. Thanks.