Nearly everyone can identify the Big Dipper, and possibly Orion, in the night sky. But if asked to point to a constellation such as Cygnus or Cassiopeia, most of us would probably just shrug. Imaginova's Starry Night Enthusiast 5.0 places the sky at your fingertips, making learning the constellations fun and easy.
SkyGuide, the most notable new feature, uses a series of simple text and illustration lessons to teach you how to measure angular distances along the dome of the sky with your hands and fingers, and how to use the Big Dipper's stars as pointers to other stars and constellations. To begin using the program, you select a viewing location from a list of cities, towns, and other landmarks. Using Night Sky Tours, you view your night sky as it appears throughout the year. The program prints star charts that you can easily transport for quick studies and outdoor stargazing.
Bundled with a 104-minute DVD, SkyTheater, and the 192-page Starry Night Companion illustrated book, Starry Night Enthusiast delivers a personal planetarium. You can view the sky from different locations, as it appeared in the past, and as it will look in the future. By selecting different rates of time flow, you can watch the sky go through daily, seasonal, and even millennial changes. For example, if you set the viewing rate to one day per time step, the planets appear to sweep across the constellations of the zodiac.
You can also display your slew horizon in the Starry Night sky. The 'Quick Center' function immediately centers Starry Night on the telescope position indicator. And for Macintosh users, the 'Telescope Handbox Simulator' allows you to push the direction arrows in. Astronomy Software: Starry Night for Mac Jeffery Adkins - 2001. – This is the second in a series of reviews of planetarium software for the Macintosh, with emphasis on its use in schools. Planetarium software, at a minimum, simulates the appearance of the night sky given certain parameters such as the date, time, and observer location.
Cruising into Space
SkyGuide's Quick Find feature lets you travel through interstellar space while Starry Night displays the galaxies in 3-D. Cruising through the Virgo Cluster, which is densely packed with constellations, is especially spectacular.
The program's Spaceship mode allows you to cruise, at speeds of up to 50 million light-years per second, to any of 28,000 distant galaxies, but it's difficult to master, as are Starry Night's other manual navigational controls. And the program's display options, which control the brightness of stars, rendering of planetary surface detail, and display of planets' and moons' orbital paths, are complicated by an unfriendly interface that makes finding a specific setting difficult.
Imaginova released version 5.0 prematurely; a number of annoying bugs mar the program. It installs in your Mac OS X root folder rather than in the Applications folder, for example, and you have to eject the installation discs manually. Cursor behavior is erratic: the cursor's shape (arrow, hand, resizing tool, and so on) doesn't change correspondingly as the mouse moves over different types of objects in the user interface. On-screen text is sometimes cut off and therefore unreadable. And the program occasionally leaves you stuck staring into a vast star field—doing a 180-degree turn to fix the point of view is not always easy to manage. Version 5.0.1, which Imaginova says will address these problems, should be available by the time you read this.
The Pro version of Starry Night 5.0 offers extensive astronomical databases and can automatically aim digitally controlled physical telescopes at selected viewing targets such as planets and moons. While serious astronomy buffs may find that advanced features such as these are useful, Starry Night Enthusiast will satisfy casual stargazers.
Macworld's Buying Advice
Both Starry Night versions, Enthusiast and Pro, offer a wealth of astronomical information, including the lengthy bundled DVD and illustrated book. Once the bugs are fixed, this appealing program will be the perfect ticket to a voyage into any night sky.
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- 1Rules
To install a theme, download one from below and copy the files to the 'apps' folder, just like an homebrew application.
As soon you load it from the Homebrew Channel, the theme will be installed.
Note: You must have the Homebrew Channel 1.0.7 or higher in order to use themes. Update your Homebrew Channel with the HackMii Installer.
It is stored in the channel's savegame on the Wii, so you can safely remove your SD card or USB mass storage device without losing the theme.
If you delete the savegame from the Wii, your theme will be lost, but can be reinstalled simply by clicking the 'app' again. You can also send the theme.zip using Wiiload.
To create your own theme, extract a theme.zip and replace the graphics. They need to have the same dimensions, filenames and filetypes as the orginals, else the images will be ignored and replaced by the original (Dark Waters) graphics. The theme.xml contains information about colors for the text (globally used) and the progress bar, see also Theme.xml Creator. When you're done, you can put the images and theme.xml back into the theme.zip, maybe add a meta.xml and icon.png and upload in here.
To learn about the new font support (The Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 and up), see Homebrew Channel#Fonts
For those having trouble you can use this file as a template. Also Newlife has created an application called ThemeHBC as an alternative way to create themes.
Don't worry about taking a screenshot, a qualified volunteer will handle it. As for HBC 1.1.0, you can take screenshots by connecting a Nunchuk and pressing Z+C (in that order); the screenshot will be written to the SD card as hbc-001.png and up. This is the preferred method. Other theme screenshots taken with ThemeShooter are referred to as 'Themeshot's'.
Read more about Homebrew Channel themes on HackMii: Theming the Homebrew Channel
Rules
Do not upload themes containing copyrighted material
Use only images you created or that are explicitly(!) released to be re-used in other works. If you are unclear about whether you are allowed to use an image, don't use it. Just because you found an image on the internet, it doesn't mean you are allowed to use it.
Do not bend this rule: Cropping, cutting up, changing the colors or filtering an image does not void its copyright. 'Fair use' is not applicable either (and a US-only exemption to copyright anyway). For the time being, Logos are considered somewhat safe, and can be used (if you really, really have to - it's not the pinnacle of creativity to slap a huge company or game logo in the background).
Do not upload themes containing only a background image
Please do at least some customization of the GUI images. Although background-only themes are possible, they are rather pointless.
Keep your descriptions short
When uploading and adding your theme to this page please keep your descriptions short, we don't want to hear the whole story just the basics. If you want to tell your whole story you can put it in the theme's meta.xml file. To avoid clutter and keep this page organized we ask that you please follow this new limit of four lines, this means that you must use the 'Show preview' button to make sure that it doesn't go past your theme's screenshot.
Official
The original HBC look! |
The default Dark Waters theme, does not contain the actual resource files. |
Japanese-capable font that enables the Japanese language (if your System Menu is configured in Japanese) |
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- 1Rules
To install a theme, download one from below and copy the files to the 'apps' folder, just like an homebrew application.
As soon you load it from the Homebrew Channel, the theme will be installed.
Note: You must have the Homebrew Channel 1.0.7 or higher in order to use themes. Update your Homebrew Channel with the HackMii Installer.
It is stored in the channel's savegame on the Wii, so you can safely remove your SD card or USB mass storage device without losing the theme.
If you delete the savegame from the Wii, your theme will be lost, but can be reinstalled simply by clicking the 'app' again. You can also send the theme.zip using Wiiload.
To create your own theme, extract a theme.zip and replace the graphics. They need to have the same dimensions, filenames and filetypes as the orginals, else the images will be ignored and replaced by the original (Dark Waters) graphics. The theme.xml contains information about colors for the text (globally used) and the progress bar, see also Theme.xml Creator. When you're done, you can put the images and theme.xml back into the theme.zip, maybe add a meta.xml and icon.png and upload in here.
To learn about the new font support (The Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 and up), see Homebrew Channel#Fonts
For those having trouble you can use this file as a template. Also Newlife has created an application called ThemeHBC as an alternative way to create themes.
Don't worry about taking a screenshot, a qualified volunteer will handle it. As for HBC 1.1.0, you can take screenshots by connecting a Nunchuk and pressing Z+C (in that order); the screenshot will be written to the SD card as hbc-001.png and up. This is the preferred method. Other theme screenshots taken with ThemeShooter are referred to as 'Themeshot's'.
Read more about Homebrew Channel themes on HackMii: Theming the Homebrew Channel
Rules
Do not upload themes containing copyrighted material
Use only images you created or that are explicitly(!) released to be re-used in other works. If you are unclear about whether you are allowed to use an image, don't use it. Just because you found an image on the internet, it doesn't mean you are allowed to use it.
Do not bend this rule: Cropping, cutting up, changing the colors or filtering an image does not void its copyright. 'Fair use' is not applicable either (and a US-only exemption to copyright anyway). For the time being, Logos are considered somewhat safe, and can be used (if you really, really have to - it's not the pinnacle of creativity to slap a huge company or game logo in the background).
Do not upload themes containing only a background image
Please do at least some customization of the GUI images. Although background-only themes are possible, they are rather pointless.
Keep your descriptions short
When uploading and adding your theme to this page please keep your descriptions short, we don't want to hear the whole story just the basics. If you want to tell your whole story you can put it in the theme's meta.xml file. To avoid clutter and keep this page organized we ask that you please follow this new limit of four lines, this means that you must use the 'Show preview' button to make sure that it doesn't go past your theme's screenshot.
Official
The original HBC look! |
The default Dark Waters theme, does not contain the actual resource files. |
Japanese-capable font that enables the Japanese language (if your System Menu is configured in Japanese) |
Variations
Sepia Tones on the HBC to remind you of Cola. |
A rehash of the HBC Classic theme, modified to be lime-green. |
A rehash of the HBC Classic theme, modified to be gray. |
https://skilleatbonusslotpennsylvaniamachineky.peatix.com. The darker version of the Gray theme. |
A mod of drmr's HBC Classic Theme, made to look like beer. Enjoy. |
Coca-Cola theme ( Inside the bottle ) |
The old HomeBrew Channel but in the version Dark. |
A color Drained HBC classic theme with some slight mods. https://dinodownload.mystrikingly.com/blog/thethief-mac-os. |
Modified classic menus on the new Dark Waters background. |
Modified classic menus on the new Dark Waters background with orange edges. |
The classic DarkWii theme for MyMenuify, ported now to the HBC |
A rehash of the HBC Classic theme, modified to be orange. |
A re-built of drmr's default Dark Waters theme, with some little changes. |
A mod of drmr's HBC Classic theme, changed to look red. Enjoy! |
Computing
What if the Homebrew Channel was on GameCube? Purple Theme with cubes. |
Face the swarm mac os. A Vista theme for the Homebrew Channel. |
A Dark Vista theme for the Homebrew Channel. |
Homebrew Channel with the fragrance of Mint. |
This is a Windows 7 theme for your Homebrew Channel. |
This my Mac Starry Sky Theme For the HBC . |
This my Mac Os X Theme For the HBC . |
Based on Wii System Menu. |
A theme made from scratch inspired by the GameCube's IPL. |
Same as title, credits go to Marcelofoxes, Raixs, and Selena(Xiangua) for some images. Themeshot can be seen here. |
Close as I can get to original HBC, I hope Team Twiizers appreciates it. |
WiiSettingsScreen-like theme. Some high quality glass styled graphics. Blends well with DarkWii. |
Wii System Settings theme. Looks like the System Menu Settings, with similar buttons and icons. |
A nice theme based on Windows 7. |
HBC given a whole new NES makeover. Themeshot can be seen here. |
A fairly simple Wii themed theme. |
A theme based on the Xbox 360 Dashboard. The background and some of the images are not that great. But for something I made pretty much from scratch, I think I did all right. |
A theme for the HBC based on Linux. Credits go to Marcelofoxes for the glass grid. |
Theme based on DOS. |
A theme based on Windows 9x. Icons are original. |
Google Material Design inspired theme. |
A HBC Alienware theme. Enjoy! |
A theme based on Material Design and Android Auto by Google. Updated to v1.4 (Nov 22, 2016) |
A theme based on Material Design and Android Auto by Google. Updated to v1.4 (Nov 22, 2016) |
A theme based on Nintendo Switch interface. |
Franchises
Starry Sky Mac Os X
here's my pac man theme i just finished. hope you like. |
This is a Simpsons Theme. |
A somewhat Yoshi's Island themed theme. |
A Homebrew Channel Matrix Theme. For white text version click here. Themeshot can be seen here. |
Simple Tetris Theme. |
A Galaga based theme. |
HBC Theme based on FF7: Crisis Core for PSP |
HBC Theme based on TRON |
Halo 3 theme. As simple as that. |
A Legend of Zelda theme. |
A Night of the Living Dead Theme. |
Legend of Zelda theme, inspired by OOT and Skyward Sword |
Inspired by They_Do_Not_Die game with my custom graphics. |
A Paper Mario (N64) Theme. |
A HBC Alienware theme. Shia labeouf - the ultimate quest mac os. Enjoy! |
A HBC Half-Life theme. |
Miscellaneous
Starry Sky Macrophage
A mouth-watering cookie theme for the HBC. |
A sky themed theme for Homebrew Channel. |
This is a simple theme, based on the original, but with different colors. |
A touch of minty green for HBC. Updated! |
Inspired in MiiConsola.com. |
Looks like everything else siv makes. |
Simple, Minimalistic, Dark and Noisy. |
Redox Homebrew Channel Theme by IceDive [Version 1.5] |
Theme with Flowers in Moonlight. |
Hell Theme for HBC |
A green and black theme for HBC. |
A theme Blue inspirate for a theme to Configurable USB Loader https://bestcfil936.weebly.com/nasticity-april-16-2019-mac-os.html. |
A simplified monochrome theme for the HBC. |
A terribly made theme |
A water theme for the HBC. |
A crayon theme for the HBC. |
The Official WiiHacks Theme. |
Colours Theme for HBC |
Black and White Theme for HBC |
Nice Black Theme with Stars |
Wooden Theme for HBC |
A Theme For Juggalo/lette gamers. Featuring Jokerman Font |
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A technology type theme. |
A sky themed theme for Homebrew Channel. |
A blue shards theme based off of material light by Shining Wing. |