HawkWing.net is a great blog for find­ing tips, tricks and fixes for Mail.app — the default email client on a Mac.

The site was dor­mant for awhile, but recently woke up and has resumed posting.

Inter­est­ing side note, it’s run by Tim Gaden who is Dean of the The­o­log­i­cal School , Col­lege Chap­lain and Stew­art Lec­turer in The­ol­ogy at Trin­ity Col­lege within the Uni­ver­sity of Mel­bourne. He also teaches Greek.

Cus­tomiza­tion of your Mac is one of the best ways to bring your per­son­al­ity to your Mac. And what bet­ter place for us to start talk­ing about cus­tomiza­tion than with the About This Mac screen. Now some of you might not even know where to find this screen. So to begin click on the Apple logo in the top left, and the first item you will see is About This Mac

This is what you will see before you do any customizing.

What we intend to do is cus­tomize the image that you see in this screen. To start goto Finder and locate /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app

If you have trou­ble find­ing this folder you might be look­ing in your cur­rent users home folder and not the root folder of your com­puter. From here you will then need to right click and click Show Pack­age Con­tents, and find /Contents/Resources/MacOSX.tif

Make a backup copy of this file to some­where you can find it, so you can change it back if you want. Then find any new image you’d like, mak­ing sure that the new image is the same size image as the cur­rent one. When you have your image ready, just rename is to MacOSX.tif and place it in the loca­tion above.

To make sure it all works, just Logout and Login again to see changes. Here what I got when I was done. If you get a chance to cus­tomize your About This Mac Screen, we’d love to see it. Just post a link to the image so we can all check it out.