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 (446) 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) (312)

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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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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The template is suitable for small or medium businesses starting out with joomla and has a host of friendly and useful features built right in.

Some of the templates features include:

• 2 x horizontal menu variations – moomenu & suckerfish
• Joomla 1.5 native code.
• Collapsible Modules.
• Full width wrapper.
• Some “admin” options to customize behaviour
• Ability to use 1, 2, or 3 column layout.
• Ability to enable / disable the header for homepage and/or subpages.
• 18 module positions available in the template.
• Text resizer.
• Single column frontend editor window.
• Integrated fancy typography styles.
• W3C XHTML Valid.
• W3C CSS Valid.

Demo Time!

Need to have a closer look at the template or interested in getting a copy for yourself? Then click the demo or view the screenshots at themeforest website:

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Links:

Extension homepage

Listing on Joomla! Extensions Directory

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The Joomla Project introduced a new team focused solely on managing and improving Joomla security—the Joomla Security Strike Team.

The JSST replaces the previous Joomla Security Team by assembling a top-notch group of Joomla experts, complemented by security talent recruited from outside Joomla. Together, part of their goal is to investigate and respond to security matters.

JSST leader Anthony Ferrara is excited about what this means for Joomla security. “We’re already well into our first mission—a low-level code audit and a deeper look into every reported vulnerability since 1.5.0 alpha.”

The Security Center offers the community a transparency over how security issues are handled.

“The Joomla Core Team has been planning a new security team for a few months now in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness. The previous team worked in relative isolation, but the new Strike Team will have a strong public-facing presence,” said Ferrara.

Win a free Joomla T-Shirt

Being a community run project, the JSST would like the rest of the joomla team to submit and report vulnerabilities. For each verified security breach reported, the JSST will send the user a free Joomla t-shirt. You can submit here and, should it be verified as a vulnerability, you could bag yourself a joomla T-Shirt!

You can view the JSST activity at Joomla Security Center.

You can also subscribe to the JSST news feed, which provides up-to-the-minute notification of security issues as they arise.

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• Ubuntu Wallpaper 1280 x 1024 (1091)
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Also, Check out more cool tips on customizing the look and feel of your ubuntu (gnome) desktop at catswhocode.com

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Simply put, the Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that:

The uncertainty principle is a manifestation of the observer effect.

Its also beautifully illustrates another very infamous thought experiment, put forth by Erwin Schrödinger in the 1930s known as “Schrödinger’s Cat” - where the principle of quantum super-positioning may be applied everyday objects.

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