Many Windows 7 users feel bored about the themes released by Microsoft and desire to have a apple Mac OS X style on their pc. Earlier we have covered an extraordinarily stylish Snow Transformation Pack which make your Windows Vista / 7 install look like Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and a Lion Skin Pack which transforms the way your Windows 7 looks into the next-gen Mac OS with core functionality of Windows 7. Today I am sharing you another Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Theme / Transformation Pack, named Mac OS X Lion Inspirat CustoPack, to give your Windows 7 the Mac OS X Lion look.
This Mac OSX Lion Inspirat CustoPack is made with CustoPack Tools and includes Visual Styles, Backgrounds, standard icons, Cursors, Notifications, Sounds, Logon screen, RocketDock skin, ColorFolder Skin, etc. and additional software to give you the complete feel of Mac OS X Lion.
Mac OS X Theme is a product developed by Wincustomize.This site is not directly affiliated with Wincustomize.All trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. Lion UX Pack will give you OS X Lion UI improvements such as theme, wallpapers and logon screen without touching system files at all so it won t have such risk to harm your system at all. In this package, you ll have OS X Lion themes and applications to make your system resembles OS X Lion as much as possible without modifying system files.
For those who don’t know, A CustoPack (= Transformation Pack) is a pack containing various graphic elements (icons, cursors, images, visual style, etc.) which allows you to change Windows appearance. It is usually the safest way to install a custom theme. A custoPack must be used with CustoPack Tools. It’s this software which will take charge of recovering elements contained in the CustoPack so as to install them in your computer.
Mac OS X Lion Inspirat CustoPack Video in action:
Apple’s latest operating system Mac OS X Mountain Lion is an example of such a stylish design and cool effects. For Windows 7 users, to get those stylish user Interface and themes, previously We have shared the Mac OS Transformation packs that will transform your Windows 7 UI into Mac OSX Mountain Lion. Mac OS X Ultimate Theme: Extract the contents of Mac OS X theme (two folders and two.theme files) to the C:WindowsResourcesThemes folder of your PC. Theme Activation: Run a Mac OS X Ultimate.theme file that you just pasted and voila! Your theme should be active. If nothing’s happened, go back to the patching tutorial and do Step 4.b. The ultimate Mac OS X Lion Windows 7 theme can now be downloaded from our site. Includes new wallpapers and updates to the old Mac Windows 7 Themes. This Windows 7 theme can only be used on Windows 7 Home and higher, it is not working on Windows 7 starter. It fully supports Windows 7 SP1 – 32-bit as well as 64-bit.
Now you can download Mac OS X 10.7 Lion CustoPack/transformation pack for Windows 7 from this link. During the installation of this CustoPack, you must enable the additional software in order to enable Hideblur which will disable the blur around the windows. Finally, if you want to also add a shadow to the taskbar, check out Taskbar Drop Shadow application.
Note: Please keep in mind that such transformation packs may be painful to get rid off. We recommend you to backup your computer before installing the Lion Skin Pack, so that you can revert the changes if required.
The new Ubuntu 12.04 looks great. But lot of people still searching for the mac look for ubuntu. There is an unofficial spell link Macbuntu 12.04 – ubuntu remix with mac look. And there is also a project in sourceforge called Mac4linto make ubuntu 12.04 look like mac os x.
Mac4lin in Ubuntu 12.04
The home page of the project is http://mac4lin.sourceforge.net.
Actually Mac4lin is a customization of aqua User Interface to POSIX Operating systems like GNU/Linux, FeeBSD, openSolaris etc. so these themes can be installed on all Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, Linux Mint, Debian etc..
Features of Mac4lin
Aqua/Graphite for POSIX OS (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, Linux Mint, Debian)
GTK based desktop environments supported – GNOME, Xfce
LXDE supported with Emerald
Mac OS X Lion Theme for Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 13
Now here is a very good theme for Ubuntu 12.04 which features mac look. You can download Mac Os X theme files from Deviantart user MBOSSG. The download Included Theme,Icons and cursors
Now how to install and execute the makeover to mac.
Download Mac OS X Lion Wallpapers.
Install Cario Dock on Ubuntu 12.04
Install Cairo Dock for the mac like dock. To install Cairo Dock just add the ppa of cairo dock team and install it. Just execute the following commands. Open the Terminal – Press Ctrl+Alt+T and copy lines.
Install the downloaded theme. Or there is a ppa setup by noobslab team this make the installation of the theme very easy.
Install Mac Theme
Windows 10 Theme Mac Os
Open Terminal copy the following commands.
Now the theme installed. Now change the icons, cursors and GTK theme of Ubuntu 12.04. For that you need the gnome tweak tool. Install Gnome Tweak Tool is very simple.
This will install gnome tweak tool. Start Gnome Tweak tool and change the Cursor Theme, GTK theme, Icon Theme and the Window theme to Mac Os X Lion. Now the visual style of Ubuntu 12.04 resembles with Mac Os X.
Install Compiz Setting Manager to Autohide Unity Launcher
Now install Compiz Settings manager to make autohide the unity launcher.
Open the Compiz settings manager and on the Behaviour Tab change the Hide Launcher to Autohide.
Now your desktop looks like Mac.
Mac Os Lion Installer
Change the Boot Splash Screen of Ubuntu 12.04
Mac Os X Lion Iso
Ubuntu Booting screen and booting splash shows ubuntu itself. To change the boot splash you want to install custom splash screen.
Run Following commands to install splash of Mac Os X:
Enter following command and select paw-osx splash:
Now Enter this command to set the splash.
Roll Back the Splash screen to Ubuntu splash if you dont like the splash Enter following command and select Ubuntu Splash number in the terminal. That is the option ubuntu-logo.plymouth 100 Manual Mode
Now update Splash screen back.
Mac Os X Lion Theme For Windows 10
That is all. Now your ubuntu is look like Mac.
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