Posts Tagged ‘mac’

Get your Droid to look like your Droid in Mac OS X

Monday, December 28th, 2009

I’ve been enjoying my Droid for almost two months now and during that time, it’s been connected to my MacBook repeatedly as I experiment w/ the ‘right way’ to move music/movies back and forth (still haven’t found the right solution; that’s a post for another day).

I suppose you could call me “visu-anal-ly retentive”. It irked me a little that my Droid was represented by a default, generic drive icon on the desktop and in the finder. I decided that I ought to try putting together an icon to represent the red-eyed wonder.

After a few minutes of searching, I found an image that I thought would work as an icon w/o looking too lame. I threw it into Acorn, cut away the background pixels, and saved it as a 512×512 32-bit PNG (w/ transparency). I thought I’d be able to export the image as an icon directly from Acorn… alas, it was not so. More searching revealed a utility called ‘Img2icns’ and it did just the trick. Here’s the icon I ended up with.

Once you’ve got your icon, right-click on your Droid in a finder window and select ‘Get Info’. Then you can drag your icon right onto the ‘Droid’ in the Get Info dialog. That should do it. You should now see something like this:

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Launch Postbox’s Profile Manager on a mac

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

I’ve used Firefox and Thunderbird for a long time on the PC/Linux sides of the fence(s). Recently, I discovered Postbox at work and it’s been serving my IMAP client needs very well.

I decided to install it on my macbook the other day and configured it for my IMAP account at work. When I wanted to create another profile for my personal Gmail account, I was stumped as to how to invoke Postbox’s Profile Manager. Surely it had one. It’s based on Thunderbird! I’m sure I could guess at the shortcut syntax for the PC, but on the mac, I felt pretty noobish.

So, after some hunting, I found some instructions for starting Thunderbird’s profile manager on a mac… In a terminal window, type the following:

/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -p &

Apparently, the “&” at the end of that line just tells Terminal to quit after launching the Profile Manager.

So, I tried the following for Postbox:

/Applications/Postbox.app/Contents/MacOS/postbox-bin -p &

It worked perfectly!