Modding the Dropbox menu bar icons (because I’m OCD).

dropbox When Cullen invited me to try out Dropbox, another Y Combinator alum, I instantly loved the application. It’s like iDisk on crack, shared between two or more people. Check out the TechCruch review for a more detailed report.

I’m obsessed with a consistent Mac OS X GUI, so when I realized the Dropbox menu bar icon was Aqua blue (ohnoes!), I had to fix it to match the other black icons surrounding it. The menu bar icons are just a set of five PNGs that you have to replace in the Dropbox application (cue Owen Wilson in Zoolander). Here are directions to get to the correct path:

In your Applications folder, ctrl-click on the Dropbox icon and select Show Package Contents. A new Finder window will open up with a Contents folder. Unzip the PNGs and drop them into the Resources folder found within the Contents folder. Translation: Dropbox.app > Contents > Resources > [PNGs]

Download a ZIP of the set I made so you too can quell your Mac OS X OCD.