http://bithaus.com Doin' teh do. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally opened this back up and added some things and fixed some things. Thanks in part to some contributions by Mark Hill over at MachineCodex and it really was long overdue. I expect that 10.5 might change some things with windows *wink, wink* but this is probably still a ... http://bithaus.com/2007/10/10/the-most-stylish-are-often-running-a-little-late/ This is just too much fun to keep to myself. Might be an interesting approach to life. When overwhelmed by something, just bail. http://bithaus.com/2007/07/17/when-confused-run-away/ I feel pretty bad.. it's been a long time since I've posted. I had such good intentions about doing this regularly, didn't quite keep that up. To allay my guilt, here's something (I think is) useful. Why can't I just have some kind of substitution token for my App name in ... http://bithaus.com/2007/01/18/those-stinkin-newapplication-menu-items/ (Alright, I found something that was broken that I had overlooked in my implementation. Thanks to Matt Gemmell for helping me resolve the error of my ways.) StyledWindow now plays properly with Toolbars. Download http://bithaus.com/2006/11/15/now-even-more-stylish/ Pixie is a great tool. If you're interested in using StyledWindow to recreate existing Polished Metal implementations here are some values for you. iWeb: [styledWindow setBorderStartColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.7686 alpha:1.0]]; [styledWindow setBorderEndColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.5922 alpha:1.0]]; [styledWindow setBorderEdgeColor: [NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.2510 alpha:1.0]]; iMovie HD & iDVD: [styledWindow setBorderStartColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.7686 alpha:1.0]]; [styledWindow setBorderEndColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.5922 alpha:1.0]]; [styledWindow setBorderEdgeColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.2549 alpha:1.0]]; iPhoto: [styledWindow setBorderStartColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.7686 alpha:1.0]]; [styledWindow setBorderEndColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.5922 ... http://bithaus.com/2006/11/12/a-smattering-of-pixie-dust/ Being new to this whole blogging thing... I'm going to try make frequent posts. Attempt to establish the habit of putting stuff up or at least writing about putting stuff up. Those that know me know that talking about stuff isn't usually a problem, so I'll just need to work on ... http://bithaus.com/2006/11/10/establish-some-momentum/ An Automator Workflow to make your Xcode Projects (or anything else I guess) ready to share. Install at ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/ (create the path if needed). Download Update: rev'd to remove .DS_Store files and "build" (in addition to "Build") folders http://bithaus.com/2006/11/10/archive-xcode-project-folder-workflow/ Ok, that's pretty cheap. Everyone loves the glossy table top reflections in iChat's video conferencing. Right? Ok, you have to at least admit that you like showing it to your Windows using associates. So here's my contribution to virtualizing real life: a category on NSImage that provides you with a reflection of ... http://bithaus.com/2006/11/05/reflections-upon-a-blog/ A Category on NSImage to produce a reflection, with the ability to set how much of the reflection is shown. Download Note: it uses Chad Weider's extremely convenient CTGradient class. http://bithaus.com/2006/11/05/nsimage-reflection/ NSWindow. Very flexible stuff. It's used *everywhere*. I mean it, everywhere, look for yourself, hit cmd-shift-4 and then press the spacebar. Move that camera icon around, over Desktop icons, Dock items, Menu Extras, etc, etc. Everywhere. Pretty versatile. But most of us still just use what IB provides. Matt Gemmell released TunesWindow ... http://bithaus.com/2006/11/04/stylish-windows/