Customize Your Drives

Written by Chris Weiss (hotiron) in Tips and tricks

I’ve always used customized drive icons on my Mac even though the default drive icons are pretty good. At least the default drive icon is detailed. I just hate accepting the default Apple user interface on anything from my old G4 PowerBook to my current MacBook Pro, iPhone, and even iPad. I feel compelled to re-skin everything I can and [...]

Stupid Stack Tricks

Written by Chris Weiss (hotiron) in Tips and tricks

Here we go again, another useless OSX trick. This time it’s stacks (again). if you caught my previous overview of customizing your stack overlay icons then you probably already have some cool looking stacks going on. Here’s another tip for tweaking them to the max. This will let you run a customized graphic for the [...]

Outlook Mail Badge Mod

Written by Chris Weiss (hotiron) in Tips and tricks

Here’s another little trick for all you Mac modders out there who hate being default. I’ve been reading about the new BETA of Microsoft Office Mac 2011 and from what I’ve read it looks like it’ll finally bring a real Outlook client. And frankly I think it’s about time we caught up a little when it comes to Office. Even [...]

Run Two External Monitors

Written by Chris Weiss (hotiron) in Tips and tricks

Here’s a quick tip for you power-users out there.  Did you know you can run on three different monitors at once? If you are a long-time computer geek like me you might even have an old monitor or two sitting around the house. And if you are also a road-warrior then you might have a MacBook laptop instead of a [...]