How do I change the Mac Appearance?

I want to change my mac appearance, as in the toolbar, dock etc... not screensaver, wallpaper. I've heard of shape shifter but they all cost money is there any which are free?How do I change the Mac Appearance?
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You can change the items listed and their positions in the Dock, as you probably already know.



In Mac OS, what you see at the top of the screen is a menu bar for whatever application is running at the ';front';. When it shows ';Finder'; next to the Apple logo, that means SystemUIServer.app is running at the front. It's the ';user interface'; that serves as the hub of getting around and finding stuff. That's why it shows ';Finder'; in the menu bar as the name of the application. You can't easily hack that as it is closely tied to the Aqua interface of OS X. The position of the headers are fixed and the options under each header are also except that a few things change from grey (not available) to black (available) depending on what disks are mounted or what is selected on the desktop or in a Finder window.



For 10.4 Tiger, you can install FruitMenu, almost free (U.S. $10), from Unsanity, link below, that gives you many options for how things appear in the Finder menu bar and what options you have from contextual menus (right-click / option-click) in the Finder. It does not affect the menu bar of other applications. That would take a huge amount of development related to each and every application that could possibly be launched since each application has its own menu scheme.



I tried FruitMenu a few years ago and found it slows down the launch of the system. Keep checking their Website as rumor mill says they will release a Leopard version of FruitMenu in the next couple of weeks.