The Hickensian

24.05.06

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Cocoalicious Hack

I fancied having a play with Apple Interface Builder to remove the margins in Cocoalicious, and moving the buttons and search to the bottom, mimicking Newsfire. Here’s the result!

(Click image for original size) | The site in the screenshot is London Views, the work of Radiohead’s artist-in-residence Stanley Donwood.

If you fancy trying it out yourself…

To Install:

Download this file: ccl.zip
Ctrl-click on Cocoalicious, choose “show package contents” and then go to Contents > Resources > English.lproj and replace the ‘MainMenu.nib’ file with the one in the download folder. Best back up first!

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No.1

Josh Teague said 1137 days ago:

Great idea. I hack around in Interface Builder fairly often, but rarely do stuff thats actually practical and helpful. This is proof that it can be done! :) Keep up the good work.

No.2

Lauch said 1137 days ago:

Funny how the simple things really make programs easier to use. Looks great. I’ll have to have a go at it later.

No.3

Daz Oakley said 1137 days ago:

Great stuff. It really works quite nicely! :)

No.4

corra24 said 1137 days ago:

Great job.

No.5

Simon Meek said 1137 days ago:

We went to Stanley’s opening night exhibition on Greek St, Soho the other night, and true to form, he wouldn’t come out to talk with the press because he was quote “having a lie down”. You couldn’t make it up…

No.6

Will Robertson said 1137 days ago:

Amazingly, Iâ€™ve recently performed almost exactly the same modifications.

Read all about it. Iâ€™ve commented on our differences, but to my chagrin I donâ€™t have a fancy smancy installer for others to take advantage of. http://willwont.blogspot.com/2006/05/cocoalicious-fun-and-interface.html

Nice work :)