candy bar is a mobile phone design style that resembles a candy bar. This is the traditional form factor for mobile phones which was commonly used by manufacturers until the clamshell style took over the market. This style of design is still often used by Nokia for their mobile phones and for some Sony Ericssonphones. A Twix bar, broken in half Candy bar is the most popular term in the U.S. for confectionery usually packaged in a bar or log form, often coated with chocolate, and sized as a snack for one person. ... In design, clamshell is a form resembling the shell of a clam, with the ability to open up in the same way. ... Nokia Corporation (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK, FWB: NOA3) is currently the worlds largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, with a global market share of approximately 36% in Q4 of 2006. ... Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. ... The following is a partial list of products manufactured under the Sony Ericsson brand. ...
CandyBar also offers to restart the dock so that applications that have a permanent place there will have their new look.
On one occasion when I started CandyBar, the program identified that new icon definitions for Mac OS 10.4.7 were available (though I was only on 10.4.6 at the time) and asked if I wanted to download them.
CandyBar is a nice "Li'l App", as Panic puts it, that changes the icon sets that OS X uses.