The thing is, doing this used to be so easy with the Leopard and I had done mine with the help from the PCWIZ Group of Magnifique. But when the new kitty arrived, the modifications had to be removed as Magnifique can totally crash with the Snow Leopard. Suffice to say, the application is not compatible with it. And so, there was no choice but to set back to default.

For awhile, I have been trying to find a way to customize the SL, and discovered that there actually is a way to do this by porting and tweaking certain files: Download the file 60+MB size with all the instructions needed to do it. Once you have it, it’s as simple as drag & drop . This file will guide you through customizing your menu bar, like I did mine:

Of course, before you do any thing on your computer it is highly recommended that you back up your files. Please don’t forget to read iPARC’s disclaimer.

Here’s hoping the PCWIZ Group continues the devolopement of Magnifique to adapt to the SL, since it’s really a cool application.

But I still would not recommend this to people who make use of Photoshop a lot, even if there’s a 10.6.1 update released. Adobe Programs are still unstable in Snow Leopard. So, if you use Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. it’s still not advisable as random browser crashes due to adobe flash and memory spike still occur. When I’m teaching, I use Leopard, to avoid all of this. When I’m not teaching, I use Snow Leopard. I’m using dual os for now.

Speed is still Snow Leopards premiere feature. 10.6.2 update is in the horizon and it will be around 500MB, a major update.

You may be asking why I’m still using this… it’s because I’m challenging myself to try and fix the bugs to the best that I can.