Bowtie

Bowtie Key Features:

Bowtie is the latest to join the big box of controllers for your favorite music app “iTunes” and in my opinion it is pretty good. Iit’s working perfect on my MacBook Pro. So what makes Bowtie different? Everything and nothing. It does things that most of the other iTunes controllers do, but it does it so much better. The preferences interface is very clean, with only a few options, but you only need a few options for something like this. Most other apps are overly complicated.

Themes are easily added, although Bowtie does require a restart before they will show up in the menu. There is also a theme pack with 11 themes currently available for download now. And if that isn’t enough, most “mac-styling themed” forums are flooded with them.

Bowtie Screenshot

How to use Bowtie

• It's very easy to use Bowtie to create a new theme. Because Bowtie is based on WebKit, all you need to know is some basic css, xhtml and javascript.
• Here is the Bowtie Theme Guide quote from its official website:
• Bowtie is based on the powerful WebKit engine, the same one that powers Safari and Dashboard. In fact, creating a Bowtie theme is akin to creating a Dashboard widget: it’s as simple as creating a standard web page, only you also provide a bit of metadata (in Info.plist), and have a handy JavaScript API to access special Bowtie features.


• Bowtie comes with the three important ones. Most themes also have controls on the display, and will let you rate the song directly from the app. A search function is included in the shortcut. You can search by artists, songs, albums by simply pressing Ctrl+Shift+S (by default). Last but not least, probably one of the most important aspects of Bowtie, Last.FM support, so you don’t have to worry about your songs not getting scrobbled.


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