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title: 'Thoughts on Iridium'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/thoughts-on-iridium'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/thoughts-on-iridium.md'
date: '2006-10-26'
description: 'I feel like I should start this post with something like rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Iridium has not seen an update since v1.9F. That F was meant to stand for final. And, it seems that Iridium still installs fine under 10.4.8, so there is no reason for an update. And, though I…'
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  category:
    - Journal
  tag:
    - iridium
    - 'os x'
    - software
---

# Thoughts on Iridium

## [Thoughts on Iridium](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/thoughts-on-iridium)

    26th Oct 2006   [iridium](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:iridium#body-wrapper) [os x](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:os%20x#body-wrapper) [software](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:software#body-wrapper)  

I feel like I should start this post with something like [rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain).

Iridium has not seen an update since v1.9F. That F was meant to stand for final. And, it seems that Iridium still installs fine under 10.4.8, so there is no reason for an update. And, though I do get questions from people who want to download a “newer” version, I have not been contacted by anyone willing to help with continued development.

I truly enjoyed working with [Colin Cornaby](https://web.archive.org/web/20130801044308/https://whitemagiclabs.com/blog/) to make Iridium Intel Mac compatible. He is a wonderful coder and a really great guy. I think Colin’s app, Catalyst, will revolutionize GUI tweaks on the Mac when it is done. When it is released, I will port Iridium to his system as a free theme and also as a base template for others to build upon.

I had wanted to continue expanding Iridium by adding skins for the iLife applications among others. But, as I have stated before, it is just too much work to do on my own. I am not willing to take Iridium commercial and I am **not** willing to take donations of money for this project. Iridium will only continue to be expanded if other people will donate their time to help make it happen.

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