I really like Apple's Clock application: they really put effort into the face of the analog clock, you can make it transparent, and it's a nice replacement for the college student with no wall space. Too bad the face is just too darn big. I use Pocket Watch X ($5 donationware) which gives you all the features of Apple's Clock plus customizeable skins.
Using the skins feature, I placed a reduced version of Apple's clock face on the Pocket Watch X face ... read the rest of the article for the how-to.
Instructions
Using the skins feature, I placed a reduced version of Apple's clock face on the Pocket Watch X face ... read the rest of the article for the how-to.
Instructions
- Download Pocket Watch X.
- Open up the folder so you can see the "Skins" folder within it (you'll be dragging stuff to it in a second).
- Open up your Applications folder and right-click or control-click on the Clock application and choose "Show Package Contents."
- Open up the "Contents" folder then the "Resources" folder inside that.
- Hold down the option key and drag "Clock02.tif" to the "Skins" folder in the Pocket Watch X folder.
- Fire up Pocket Watch X. Choose "Preferences" from the Pocket Watch X menu. I suggest these options:
- Clock radius: whatever
- Clock transparency: whatever
- Foreground: white
- Background: blueish (RGB 41, 41, 134)
- Drop Shadow checked
- Always on Top checked
(In the Preferences, you might have to re-select the Skins directory as well.)
- For a nicer looking clock, resize the Clock02.tif to 90 pixels wide & tall. This is easily done if you have ImageMagick installed (it's free). If you do, in the Terminal `cd` to the Skins directory and type:
% cp Clock02.tif Clock02-small.tif
% mogrify -scale 90x90 Clock02-small.tif
•
[6,593 views]

