What's new in the Mac world?

There were a lot of exciting announcements regarding Macintoshes today. First off, Apple announced the new 20-inch iMac. In addition, Apple also revamped their Power Mac G5 line, reducing the price of the 1.6 GHz model and changing the 1.8 GHz model into a dual-1.8 GHz model for only $100 more than the single-1.8. The laptops remain unchanged, though Apple recently released new iBooks.

The great shareware developer Unsanity released a great new program/hack for Mac OS X today called ShapeShifter. It's essentially the long-awaited replacement for Kaleidoscope, a great theme-changing program for Mac OS 7 through 9. (Arlo Rose, co-author of Kaleidoscope, is probably far too preoccupied with writing Konfabulator to do a Kaleidoscope OS X port.) Unsanity has a reputation for creating spiffy, stable OS X hacks, so don't hesitate to try it out!