Terminal Tips: Hack Safari RSS

By C.K. Sample, III

Want to make Safari's RSS page look different? Fix a few formatting bits that you don't like? Well, there's a helpful hack over at Mac OS X Hints that tells you which CSS files Safari uses to format those pages: "The CSS and layout templates for Safari 2 are located in /System: Library: PrivateFrameworks: SyndicationUI.framework: Versions: A: Resources: Themes: default.syndtheme: Contents: Resources; the CSS file itself is called Articles.css. By changing this file, as well as the other templates there, you can change the way Safari's RSS pages look."

To get to those files, simply launch the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/) and type (all in one line):
open /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/
SyndicationUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/
Themes/default.syndtheme/Contents/Resources/

This will open the folder containing all the files you need to hack away at, but remember to make duplicates, backup the originals, and hack at the duplicates. You don't want to fry your Safari installation.

Pretty cool and a much more useful hack than porn mode, imho. 

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