UTILITIES THAT TRANSFORM aspects of your Mac are a dime a dozen, but Zonkers! collects every conceivable interface tweak in one easy-to-use collection.
All the customization options in Zonkers! are available from one pull-down menu or from buttons in the Zonkers! control panel. The options include swapping your dull static cursors for colorful animated ones, colorizing your menus, altering your desktop pattern, and changing how windows and buttons appear on your Mac across all applications. For example, if you want to make your Mac look like a PC running Windows, Zonkers! will oblige you.
Spiff Up Those Icons. A well-designed addition to the customization features in Zonkers! is its icon browser/editor, which lets you easily create and alter custom icons and then copy them to and from documents by dragging and dropping rather than having to use the multistep process the Finder requires.
The Zonkers! library of colorful desktop patterns, icons, and cursors is well organized and fun, if somewhat bland. The CD-ROM version, whose library is twice the size of the disk version for the same price, is a better bet for users with CD-ROM drives. If you're bored with your Mac's look, Zonkers! is a good one-stop tool for giving it a makeover.
Zonkers! (3.5 out of 5 mice) Average/Very Good / Price: $30 (list). Company: Nova Development, Calabasas, CA; 800-395-6682 or 818-591-9600. Reader Service: Circle #419.
