While using Prism for Basecamp I ran into an annoying little problem that all the icons from Prism are the default ‘world’ type of icon. I hated this plus it was hard to distinguish the different applications on my desktop. So I found a way to remedy this situation. First I went out and tried to find some high quality icons for Basecamp. Low and behold… 37 signals themselves have provided some decent rez icons to be used for just this occasion. There you can find icons for Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire and Highrise. Fantastic! Now all we need to do is open your favorite photo editor...

Hot on the heels of the 37 signals article about Launchbar… I have created a quick tutorial on how to get the same functionality out of the fantastic Windows application launcher, Launchy. So here we go… First you will need to download Launchy from Sourceforge, if you don’t already use it that is, (current version is 2.0). Once you are up and running, invoke Launchy by using the keyboard command Alt-Space (unless you have changed the defaults). Right click on launchy and select Options. An options window will pop up and then go to the Plugins tab. 1. Click on the ‘+’...