It turned out to be easier than I thought it was going to be.

If you would like to do the same, begin by creating a new shortcut to the folder.

Right Click on your new shortcut and choose properties

What we need to do now is change this from a plain old folder link into a shortcut that invokes an application. Specifically, Windows Explorer.

In the “Target” section

Add “%windir%\explorer.exe ” to the very beginning, without the quotes and with the single space at the end. Then remove the quotes around the target folder, so it looks like this:

For non techy types, the %windir% is what is called a path. It was set up automatically when you installed Windows 7 and just directs to where Windows is installed, which is generally C:\Windows, but not always.

In the “Start in” section, add the “%windir%” (no quotes) path again. Your final product should look something like this:

If you would like to make the icon for the shortcut be something different, click on change icon and change it to whatever you want.

Click on ok, then right click on the folder again and choose “Pin to Task Bar.”

You should now have a nice, new shortcut to the folder that is not stacked inside the existing Explorer shortcut.

Now if only I could figure out how to make the contents appear like a Stack on OS X.

EDIT: This is going to be updated, have Steam removed (since it is available for the Mac now), and be moved to my EVE blog in the next couple days!

For all the EVE players out there on the Mac, there is not a fully functional skill queue planner and fitting tool. Fear not, my capsuleer friends, because you can run them on your Mac through Wine. (Youcan also run Steam and play a number of Steam powered games, like torchlight)

Download and install Winebottler and XCode.

WineBottler

XCode XCode will require free registration.

After they are installed, fire up Winebottler.

Steam is the easy one. Select Install Predefined Prefixes then click on Steam.

Then click Install and it is off to the races.

All the hard work is done for you.

For EVEMon and EFT, though, things get a little bit trickier.

EVEMon

EFT

You need to start by selecting create custom prefix then going to choose file.

browse to your EVEMon install file and click Open

In the Winetricks box, you will need to check the box next to:

dotnet11 dotnet20 allfonts

Then click install, give it a name, and decide where you want to put it.

As long as all goes well, you should have a brand new app called whatever you named it in whatever folder you put it.

EFT is even easier. Unzip it wherever you want. In WineBottler, select custom prefixes again, click select file, and browse to the EFT .exe file. Once you have selected it, in the drop down select the EVEMon.app prefix we just created and Check the Copy Only box.

Then click install. A prefix copy will be created and you can now use it to start up EFT.

These run in X11, so you have to have XCode installed and leave X11 running whenever you fire them up.