September 2006

Changing Icons OS X

Here is a great article :

http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/articles/defaults_10-3-x.php

The disk icons are in the file :

IOStorageFamily.kext

Also you can change the icon of any normal folder simply by choosing “info” for it and then select the icon in the window and copy and paste from one to the other!

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Left handed cursors for OS X

Aha! finally i discovered a way to change my mousepointer easily….

http://www.unsanity.com/news/

they have quite a few cool things on there including completely changing the os x interface.

after trying quite a few different ones i discovered that i actually quite like the interface:) yeah v boring.

Another cool utility is window shade X which allows you to make all windows transparent so i can type this whilst watching a dvd in the background!

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Shackleton

“MEN WANTED
for hazardous journey… butter cold … small wages … long month’s of complete darkness… constant danger… safe return doubtful… honour and recognition in case of success.”

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Simple Color Constants For CSS

Ok So CSS doesn’t have a way to declare constants.

But yet you always want a set of constant colors?

I discovered a simple method which is manual but works.

All you do is :


#116611/*text*/
#1A801A/*border*/
#FFFFFF/*high-text*/
#9966FF/*high-bg*/
#FFFFFF/*page-bg*/

Then whenever you reference a color:

div#sitemast { color:#116611/*text*/; }

now all you have to do if you want to change a color globally is use your editor to do a global search and replace.

This is more efficient than simply S/R on the hex value – what if you have 2 types of element which are the same color in one scheme but not another?

Next I would love to write a simple plugin for intellij which does this for you!

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Show hidden files on OS X

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

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