We’re proud to release Pangea, a new free Joomla! template.  Pangea is a clean and minimalistic template, with strong emphasis on showing your content without distraction. If you want to put the focus on your content, then this may just be the template for you. This template also has additional styling for the wonderful K2 joomla CCK component from joomlaworks.

Feature Summary:

• Choice of 3 layout widths: for 800px, 1024px and 100% fluid width
• 16 Color styles to choose from
• K2 Integration and custom “Blog” layout template
• Animated menu with sub menus
• Accordion effect on modules
• Tested in all modern browsers
• Setup guide

This template comes in various colours and also sports either fixed width or fluid width layouts. Because of its simple nature and only one sidebar, it may not be the template for everyone. It should also be noted that this template has been deliberately designed this way.

This template only has one sidebar and may appear to sport only one module position on the sidebar. You may add as many modules in the sidebar as your site requires, you can even use the accordion effect to minimize modules if you have a lot of them.

Browse around the demo site to see if this template fits your needs or download it and test drive it on your own joomla! site.

Documentation

If you need help in setting up Pangea on your joomla website, we’ve put together a quick guide highlighting installation and configuration of your template: Pangea documentation

Updates

12 Jan. 2010: Version 1.1

• Fixed missing module positions (Thanks to James Griffiths)
• Added color styles to in backend description to make color selection easy (Thanks to Simon from K2Joom)
• Pagination CSS fix

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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 (2011) 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) (1504)

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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