Make Your Motorola Q Look Like A Mac

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Make Your Motorola Q Look Like A Mac

by Mike Hamilton Aug 12th 2006

If you are a Mac user and want your Motorola Q to look like a Mac powered device instead of the Windows Mobile that it is, check out the home screens designed by Ray at KoolDezine.com. He has several Mac ones to choose from. In addition to the Mac one he has a fairly large selection of general ones to choose from. I downloaded several of them.

The best part is that they are free, but he does ask for donations if you like them and use them, which I am going to do since I am using one his cool looking Yankees one, which is in his fairly extensive "Sports" section. And most of them also use only standard plugins so you do not need any additional software for them. They are a cinch to install, just unzip them and copy the XML and JPG file to the 'Application Data/Home' directory through ActiveSync. Once the files are copied just go into "Settings" and the "Home Screen" option. You also need the "Color Scheme" and "Background Image" to be set to "Default" so the settings in the XML file are used.

Tags: Apple, Customize, Home Screen, HomeScreen, Mac, Motorola Q, MotorolaQ

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

scott said 12:38PM on 8-12-2006

neato, something to go with my FlyAKite OSX skin on my lappy... i like this skin cause it replaces ALL your icons so's it looks very realistic.this Q skin is kinda ruined by having, you know, the windows flag and IE on the bar and everything

Liza said 4:19PM on 8-12-2006

Not bad themes. But how they are installed? Won't I last warranty?

Craig said 10:41PM on 8-12-2006

The link is not Working.
Is it just me??

Mike Hamilton said 11:10PM on 8-12-2006

You can just unzip the file, and then follow the directions in the text file that was extracted. The post mentions what the step in the text file are. All you need to do is open ActiveSync and browse to the device Using the "Explore" button in ActiveSync. Then you navigate to the Application DataHome directory, and drop the XML and JPG file into it and then go into the settings screens on the Q and select that Home Screen.

gps said 8:47PM on 8-13-2006

Sweet, can't wait to try this out! Now if only Mac would come out with their iPhone, all this would become unneccessary:)

Sketch said 2:55PM on 9-26-2006

how do i get ActiveSync for OS X?

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