never been much a fan of those “toolbars”… personally the search box on top of safari/firefox/camino works just fine but you know… a lot of people find those toolbars useful, so i guess that works too.

for some reason though this page doesn’t render properly on safari 3 as it does on camino. the names of those who’ve made comments on this page are messed up.

anyway… for nancy reyes, you can get a mac and still be running your windows’ app! you can dual boot to windows on any mac via a free software from apple called “bootcamp” or if you prefer no rebooting, buy a virtualization software called “parallels desktop for mac” (www.parallels.com, US$80) or another software from vmware’s fusion. either software will let you run windows side-by-side with the mac but i find parallels’ solution to be much more powerful at the moment.

how good is parallels? if the latest version of parallels for mac can let users play 3d windows games like quake 4, it should be sophisticated enough for your purposes. i use parallels all the time.

if you’re into digital medical imaging there is a free mac software called “OsiriX” that lets you get images from a hospital’s networked ct/mri/pet via dicom and view them on a mac.

I did a test drive for the Safari 3 Beta on my Windows XP. I kinda like it because it completes my Mac emulation that I am running for two months now. But I still prefer using Firefox 2.0 with the MacFox II Graphite theme/add-on–it still looks like it’s running on a Mac!

And speaking of my Mac emulation, I love how my UI looks right now. It totally looks like an authentic Mac OSX Tiger! I am using this system files enforcer called FlyAKite OSX, that includes software like QuickDock, WinRoll, UberIcon, iColor Folder, Y’z Shadow, Y’z Toolbar.

FlyAKite OSX is a safe, complete Mac makeover pack. It tweaks registry and installs cool sounds, cursors, and visual styles that are truly Mac. Even the boot screen and the welcome sound are authentic Apple. QuickDock gives me that cool, fluid-like icon toolbar like what’s at the bottom of every Mac screen. Winroll allows me to minimize/maximize windows and open folders/files with animation. UberIcon changes ALL my icons into Mac icons. iColor Folder allows me to assign colors to my file folders like what you can do on a Mac. Y’z Shadow and Y’z Toolbar transforms your scrollbar and close/restore/maximize buttons and adds shadows to your windows.

As a bonus, my Winamp is running with an iPod Nano skin.

As an alternative, there are Yahoo! Widgets you can use to add more Mac-emulating elements but they eat up much of your virtual memory. What I like about my combo right now is that it’s so minimal and so smooth to use even on a 256MB PC.

Of course there is no better way to be inspired by a Mac by buying one. Hehe.