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So I made a How To for changing this icon.

Nice to know:

1. As you maybe know every Application is a Folder (use a terminal to try it out)
   

   For Example
   ls /Applications/Preview.app/Contents

2. Every Applications has a Ressources Folder (you should have seen this folder in Preview.app/Contents). This Ressources Folder contains at least one icns-file (File which contains the icon-picture in different sizes).
3. Now every Applications has a Info.plist file too. All filetypes which this app is able to open has an entry in this file under
   <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>

for example the filetype pdf:

<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>pdf</string>
<string>PDF</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
<string>pdf.icns</string>
<string>pdf.icns</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeMIMETypes</key>
<array>
<string>application/pdf</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
<string>NSPDFPboardType</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeOSTypes</key>
<array>
<string>PDF </string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>Editor</string>
<key>LSIsAppleDefaultForType</key>
<true/>
<key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
<array>
<string>com.adobe.pdf</string>
</array>
<key>NSDocumentClass</key>
<string>PVPDFDocument</string>
</dict>

As you see in line 7 and 8 there is a link to the icon file icns for this filetype. Now this is how a app defines its filetypes and icons. For my Excel 2007 in my virtual machine with windows xp you wouldn’t expect an application folder under mac os x. But there is one. In the virtual machine folder (in my case Documents>Parallels>Microsoft Windows Xp) is a folder called Windows Application. This Folder contains all windows application you ever started with Parallels. As you might think this folder containing a Ressources folder and a info.plist file too.

1. Copy an icns file (for exampel an icon file for docx) into the Ressources folder.
2. edit info.plist
3. Search for the CFBundle Type Extensions Key for the docx filetype:
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>docx</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
<string>docx.icns</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
<string>DOCX File</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>Editor</string>
</dict>
4. Change the CFBundle TypeIconFile String from my_documents.icns to docx.icns (or how you named the icns you copied into the Ressources Folder)
5. Save info.plist and in my case reboot Mac OS X (I don’t know if you have to reboot, but I saw the changes not until I rebooted.).
6. Now you can change the icon for every filetype you want. e.g. exlx

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My idea was to connect this transmitter to my pc as a game controller. Here’s the result:

Components:

• RC USB Interface
• 2.5mm 3.5mm audio jack (depends on the RC USB Interface)

Tools:

• soldering iron
• screwdrivers to open the case of the transmitter

How-to:

1. First you have to open the transmitter case
2. Now you have to search for the ppm signal
   I used a soundcard oscilloscope for this job
3. Connect the audio jack to the ppm signal using the soldering iron

Important: You have two lines on the oscilloscope. Put one line to the ground and with the other line go throught the pins of the microcontroller.

Now you can plug in the RC USB Interface to the transmitter and to the PC.

In Windows XP, the interface should be recognized as a game controller.

Have Fun.

Partition 1: Ubuntu [ext3]
Partition 2: Windows [ntfs]
Partition 3: Data [fat32]

My target was to save all Opera data in Partition 3 that I could use them from both systems.

Under Ubuntu is the Opera directory

/home/{username}/.opera/

Under Windows

c:\documents and settings\{username}\applicationdata\Opera\Opera

Requirements:
1. You must use the same version of opera because you can't use the mail data from opera 9 in opera 8
2. You have to install linkmagic on windows, to create softlinks

http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

3. You can access the data partition from windows and linuxI use this shortcuts in my howto for easier reading

win_opera_dir
c:\documents and settings\{username}\applicationdata\Opera\Opera

lin_opera_dir
/home/{username}/.opera/

data_opera_dir
your created directory on your data partition see point 1 below

Here my how to step by step:

#Under windows
1. Create a directory on your data partition ( for Example OperaData )
2. Move data from win_opera_dir to data_opera_dir ( if all data is in your lin_opera_dir you can pass this step )
3. Create a softlink with linkmagic from win_opera_dir to data_opera_dir ( win_opera_dir must be empty )
4. Test the softlink: open win_opera_dir and you should see the content of the data_opera_dir
5. Open Opera to prove if all works fine

Now opera under windows use the data_opera_dir.
Reboot and start ubuntu.

#Under Ubuntu
1. If the data you want use togheter is under linux, you have to move this files into your data_opera_dir

In my case I moved the mail direction, the contacts.adr and the notes.adr to data_opera_dir

2. Create softlinks for each moved file or directory ( its importend that you moved the files and dirs and didn't copied them)
In my case:

cd /home/chris/.opera
ln -s /home/windows/OperaData/profile/notes.adr notes.adr
ln -s /home/windows/OperaData/profile/contacts.adr contacts.adr
ln -s /home/windows/OperaData/mail mail

3. Test Opera

Now you should can use your opera data from both systems. Enjoy it. Else post a comment.