Since its debut inside of iTunes, the brushed metal interface texture has grown to skin just about every iapp that Apple has made. If you're like me, you were stoked at first, and then it started getting on your nerves.
With the debut of Panther, the Finder, among many other applications, has adopted the brushed metal texture. Now, I love the interfaces that Apple has produced, but this texture has been extremely overdone.

Enter Whiteout. Whiteout replaces a system resource file with a modified version. The metal texture is changed to the original Aqua pinstripe texture.

Whiteout has been updated! There were issues with the original uninstaller script, so included in the device image is an uninstaller package that will restore your system back to it's original state.


Updated: 5/20/06
• added 10.4 support in a seperate installer package
• Updated the uninstaller scripts (was a bug with using SH)
• New system checks will keep you from installing Whiteout on the wrong system version

Whiteout is only compatible with 10.3 and 10.4 Power PC Macs Due to the lack of system resource editors for the intel platform, whiteout is only fully functional with Power PC Macs. Intel based Macs can isntall Whiteout but the effects will only be visible in applications that run in the Rosetta environment.

Whiteout is Donationware / Beerware. While it is free, if you enjoy using it please consider donating $5.00 for further development and/or more bottles of Scotch