This little tip is for those souls out there adventurous enough to use the Blackberry Bold / Mac OS X combo. If you that use a Blackberry on Max OS X with “Disk mode” or “Mass storage” enabled, you are able to read and write files to your Blackberry’s SD card from your desktop or the finder. However, the drive icon that shows up in the finder when your mobile device is plugged into the Mac is the boring generic drive icon. This is all well and good, but here’s a little tip that shows you how to modify the generic drive icon for your Blackberry to a more suitable one.

First off, I hear some people ask why bother changing the icon? Well, here are a couple of reasons that prompted me to do so:

1. There has been a rare occasion where I may have mistook the generic drive icon used when my Bold was plugged in for another one of my drives and accidentally deleted or moved files to this folder.
2. Having a specific icon for your phone when its plugged into your mac also shows you whether the device has been mounted or not with one quick glance and without reading the names for each of your mounted drives - this is useful if you tend to have lots of drives that you work with.
3. It just looks so much better!

Here’s a little tip to allow you to customize the icon such that it displays a more appropriate icon.

How to customize the Blackberry Bold 9000 icon for Mac OS X:

1. Plug your Blackberry Bold 9000 into your Mac’s USB port and enable “Mass Storage” or “Disk Mode” - it should now show up on your desktop and in the finder.
2. Download Blackberry Bold Icon for Mac OS X (412) and extract the archive on your SD Card of your Bold (the icon itself is invisible so unless you may not see it in the finder).
3. Done! You may need to Eject the drive and re-insert it back into your Mac to see the new icon in effect.

Alternate Method:

If the above fails to work for you, here’s another way of achieving the same result.

Step 1: Get the Icon file: Blackberry Bold Icon for Mac OS X (original) (295)

Step 2: Copy the icon to the clipboard

1. Click on this file from the Finder
2. Choose ‘Get Info’ from the ‘File’ menu.
3. In the info window that pops up, click on the icon
4. Choose ‘Copy’ from the ‘Edit’ menu.
5. Close the info window

Step 3: Paste the icon to the desired item

1. Go to the item in the Finder that you want a custom icon
2. Click the item (file, folder, disk, etc)
3. Choose ‘Get Info’ from the ‘File’ menu.
4. In the info window that pops up, click on the icon
5. Choose ‘Paste’ from the ‘Edit’ menu.
6. Close the info window

Credit for the original Image goes out to hackerinflight.

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This is little tip for web developers out there. If you use CSSEdit - the css editor from MacRabbit, then you are sure to appreciate this little gem.

Did you know what you can edit the auto-complete list of suggestions that pops up when you coding away your CSS files? Well it turns out that you can do just that by tweaking the application’s AutoCompletion.plist file found under the Resources folder. Always be sure to make a backup first in case things dont go as planned!

View the full article over at the Aloe Studios Blog.

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So you’re deciding between Wordpress VS Joomla and are not sure which CMS is right for you? Are you new to the world of Blogs and Content Management systems? Does it all sound a bit daunting and confusing? Then checkout this review by Rudolf Boogerman to help you decide which CMS suits your needs best. Rudolf has done a fantastic job of explaining in very simple and easy to use language (for the non technical users) what the strengths and merits of each system are. There is also a counter argument, or disadvantage of both Joomla and Wordpress, so its a pretty balanced review. If there’s only one article you are going to read before you pick your cms, then this is it!

Personally, since both systems are easy to get up and running very quickly, i would recommend trying both out for yourself to see which one you are most comfortable using. Look out for a comment from Joomla’s core team member Wilco Jansen!

Link to the review on miracletutorials.com

Official Sites:

• Joomla.org (for downloads, documentation, and everything else)
• Wordpress.org (for downloads, documentation, and everything else)

Forums:

Both of these systems have an excellent community of helpful volunteers and competent developers that have made these two of the most exceptional and most widely used pieces of community driven software web software.

• Wordpress forums
• Joomla forums

Demos:

• Joomla has a demo of latest v1.5 available on their demo website.
• Register on wordpress.com and try out wordpress for yourself, or see the opensourcecms section below for a demo of wordpress.

Another handy site for the undecided webmaster-to-be would be Open Source CMS - which provides a short roundup of commonly available Open Source content management systems avaialble as well as a functional working demo of each - so you can experience each system before you invest your time and energy into choosing the right one for your website or blog.

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