If you are new to WP, you may wonder what a WP hack is. Well, hacks were what lead to plugins. Basically, a plugin is an extension that you can add to WP (the majority of open source projects support plugins). Prior to the advent of plugins, if a WP user wanted to add or modify functionality, they would write a hack. Some people still do write hacks, although allowing plugins has eliminated most of the situations where one would want to. Generally, it is considered a hack when you modify WP core files.

Having said that, this is a hack. This hack replaces 2 files used by the admin panel. The hack has no effect on the public site. The purpose of the hack is to make the admin panel (I mentioned it last week) look like this:

You can download the hack. Extract the hack onto your computer. It includes a README with instruction on how to use it. If you are not comfortable with backing up and overwriting files, wait for the plugin (if I can create one for it).