The Application Enhancer system allows you to enhance or redefine certain behaviors for applications running on your system. It provides a way for third-party enhancer modules to modify how your applications work. Application Enhancers cannot affect the core system - they operate on an application level, therefore, they cannot cause a whole Mac OS X system to crash.

The technology behind Application Enhancer system has been in research and development for more than 1.5 years now, and many of our haxies (including WindowShade X, FruitMenu, Silk and others) are using it.

Features:

• Provides capabilities to use Application Enhancer modules.
• Completely free of charge^*.

New in v1.2:

• Added a new APE Manager Preference Pane for configuration and management of the installed Application Enhancer modules.
• Better error reporting.

Modules you can use with Application Enhancer:

• NEW iChat Enhancer  free
  iChat Enhancer lets you change the number of lines used to type a new message in iChat.
• NEW Dock Detox  free
  Removes application notification icon bouncing from the Dock.
• ClearDock  free
  Removes the Dock background on Mac OS X 10.2
• FruitMenu  shareware
  Customizes Apple and contextual menus.
• Metallifizer  free
  Adds or removes brushed metal appearance for Cocoa applications on Mac OS X 10.2
• Xounds  shareware
  Adds audio feedback and allows the use of Appearance Sounds from Mac OS 9.
• WindowShade X  shareware
  Brings the familiar windowshading effect and shadows control into Mac OS X.
• more to come!

Developers wishing to develop Application Enhancers may proceed to the Application Enhancer SDK page.

More information? Suggestions? Ideas for Application Enhancer modules? Contact us!