| Replace the SwatchTime Control Strip Graphic
Swatch, the makers of cool looking watches, has created new way of looking at time. Internet time divides the day into 1000 equal units without time zones. 39 SwatchTime in Chicago is 39 SwatchTime in Australia.
Now, when you have a global teleconferencing meeting scheduled at 50 SwatchTime, the participants no longer need to be concerned with the trivialities of whether or not someone is sleeping! Isn't technology great.
The good folks at Swatch was nice enough to release an Interrnet Time piece for free on the Mac Platform. This Control Strip module keeps the current SwatchTime displayed on your desktop, but at the price of a HUGE corporate logo. (The nerve of these guys. You'd think they want to to own time, or something!)
This simple edit shows you how to remove or modify the Control Strip graphic.
 Open a copy of the Swatch Control Strip module in ResEdit.
Find the PICT resources and open them with a double-click.
 Open the only ID, number 256 to see the current logo.
Using any graphics editor, create a smaller replacement picture and copy it to the clipboard.
While you can't delete the PICT resource to rem,ove the logo all together, you can past in a single grey pixel to make it appear that the logo has been removed.
Where can you easily get a single pixel of grey? Open resource icl8 and use the "selection Tool" to copy a single pixel of the program's icon to the clipboard!
Once you have replaced the PICT ID, save your work and quit ResEdit. Starting with version 2.0 of the Control Strip, you no longer have to restart your Mac to add and remove modules. Drag the new version of the SwtchInternetTime control strip into the Control Strip Modules folder to se your changes.
 In this example, I cropped out the company name, but kept the Swiss icon.
 This version has the single pixel of grey to make it appear that the logo has been removed.
As you can see, the entire edit only took me 11 internet time units to complete! (whatever that means)
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