Casper Kuijjer's Homepage » menubar http://www.kuijjer.com Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:52:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Greyscale Tweetie for Mac menubar icons http://www.kuijjer.com/2009/04/greyscale-tweetie-for-mac-menubar-icons/ http://www.kuijjer.com/2009/04/greyscale-tweetie-for-mac-menubar-icons/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:47:12 +0000 ckuijjer http://www.kuijjer.com/?p=93 Tweetie for Mac has been released, a Twitter client with a simple, but still feature rich, user-interface.

Unfortunately the menubar icon uses a glowing blue icon to indicate new Twitter messages.

tweetie_menubar_original.png

I’ve changed both icons to be greyscale and made them less heavy by making them an outline of the Tweetie dock icon. I’ve also added one pixel to their height to make it align better vertically.

tweetie_menubar_changed.png

Download the zip file containing both icon, copy them to 

/Applications/Tweetie.app/Contents/Resources
and restart Tweetie to use these icons yourself.

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It comes with a small menubar application, Little Snitch Network Monitor, that shows the current network activity. The menubar icon uses red and green bars to show the amount of download and upload. This choice of color conflicts with Mac OS X Leopards system wide use of grayscale menubar icons.

I’ve changed the tiff files used by Little Snitch Network Monitor to grayscale pictures to make it more inline with the rest of my menubar icons. To do this yourself copy the files from the zip-file into /Library/Little Snitch/Little Snitch Network Monitor.app/Contents/Resources.

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