Another day and I’m finally getting around to writing another tutorial. This time I thought I concentrate on something I’ve had quite a lot of emails about, ’you’ve given me the icons, how do I go about using them’. I suppose it’s quite an important thing, if your supplying people with something, to tell them how to use it. (Warning: this is a Mac only tutorial).
In previous version of Mac OS X, before Leopard you could get away with applying HD icons though copy and paste alone, and from that point on everything would work fine. Unfortunately, one of the first things I noticed about applying HD icons in Leopard is that copy and paste gives bad results, especially for the scaled down versions of the icon in the new Finder sidebar.
I eventually found the correct way to apply the icons, it involves a little bit of Terminal usage but don’t be afraid. (I have a sneaking suspicion you may also need the Apple Developer Tools installed, these should have been included on your Leopard DVD). I believe this tutorial also applies to setting HD icons on previous versions of Mac OS X.
The first command we will execute in the Terminal copies the icon resource (.icns file) to the correct place on the target HD. You will need to fill in the paths in a way suitable for your system but you can do this by dragging and dropping onto the terminal window.
Not too difficult was it. The next line will tell the HD to accept a thrid-party icon.
The final line will restart the Finder so you can see the changes.
And that’s it. You should see your new icon in the Finder and the correct scaled down version in the Finder sidebar.
Hope you get it working. Check back soon.
Update: After many emails I have written a small utility called Set Icon that automates this process, if you are not feeling confident with the Terminal commands you can download it here.
Update: I’ve just got my hands on a copy of Snow Leopard and the above instructions still seem to work correctly, happy icon changing.
Published by digitalpardoe on Thursday 15 November 2007 at 01:08 PM
A little bit of coding. That’s right I’m re-writing parts of the website yet again, I just can’t seem to keep away from my text editor. The main changes that will be coming are more personalization of the website to give you a feel for who I am. I bet you don’t even know my name, unless that is, you know me in real life.
The first changes will be the introduction of an ‘About’ page. I have already introduced a ‘Blog Roll’ into the sidebar, I also intend to improve the photography page, introduce a ‘Tutorials’ page and improve the general functionality of the rest of the website.
These changes will be implemented over the next few weeks so, check back soon.
Published by digitalpardoe on Wednesday 14 November 2007 at 07:57 AM
I have just received an email from my hosting company stating that one of their servers is suffering from problems with faulty hardware. You’ll never guess which server it is, the one that my website is hosted on. They are replacing the hardware tomorrow at midday. Hopefully everything will be stable after this point, but we’ll see how it goes. Please bear with me whilst I sort the website out (in theory it will only be offline for an hour).
Update: I have just received an email stating that the hardware that my website is hosted on has been replaced and should now be stable, as a result of this my website should spend a lot longer online than offline.
Check back soon.
Published by digitalpardoe on Wednesday 7 November 2007 at 11:06 PM
I have received several bug reports about version 1.3 of iSyncIt closing after the sync has been completed. I have now narrowed down the cause of this problem and will rectify it ASAP. For the moment you can use the previous version of iSyncIt by downloading it from:
http://digitalpardoe.co.uk/downloads/isyncit/iSyncIt_1.2.1.dmg
Update: The crash appears only to affect Intel Macs, I’m looking into the issue and hope to have a fix sooner rather than later.
Update: I have now (at least I think) fixed the bug that has been plaguing iSyncIt on Intel macs. The new version of iSyncIt is 1.3.1 and you can download it here.
Check back soon.
Published by digitalpardoe on Tuesday 30 October 2007 at 07:16 PM
Version 1.3 of iSyncIt has been released, this release adds Growl support and will be the last release for Mac OS X Tiger. This is due to the fact I only have one machine for testing and it now runs Leopard. You can download the new version here.
From my preliminary tests iSyncIt appears to work in Leopard, but it will still be undergoing a re-write to take advantage of Objective-C 2.0 and the new Interface Builder palettes. The next release may be in development for a little longer than normal, but I promise I won’t forget about it.
That’s all for now, check back soon.
Published by digitalpardoe on Saturday 27 October 2007 at 11:52 AM