Safely and easily swap out your Mac’s icons to give your desktop a look uniquely its own … FREE, with LiteIcon.
If you are aware of the program CandyBar by Panic (for Mac OS X), you know that virtually all the Mac’s icons, even the system icons like the trash can, Finder, etc., can be swapped out to give your desktop a new personalized look. The new version of CandyBar for 10.5 was rewritten from the ground upm and now includes the previous standalone Pixadex built right in — Pixidex is like iPhoto for icons.
Most all the icons I’ve come across are free, yet the artists have put in a lot of time creating them. Up until LiteIcon was developed by Julien Ramseier of Switzerland, you needed to buy software to install free icons. LiteIcon changed all that starting with Tiger (10.4), and now has added a whole new version for Leopard (10.5).
For Mac OS X only
DOWNLOAD LiteIcon 1.2.2 for Tiger (10.4.x)
DOWNLOAD LiteIcon 1.3.1 for Leopard (10.5.x and 10.6.x)
http://FreeMacSoft.net
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At 1280-by-960 pixels, this photo will fit all popular screen sizes, and can be used with virtually any operating system, including Mac and Windows.
“How was it done?”
I’m glad you asked … you can also see it in action here. At most craft stores, they sell very reflective, chrome-plated spheres in a variety of sizes. Buy yourself a large one, about a foot or more in diameter.
Pick-up some chrome polish while you’re there, since you will want it to be a shiny as possible, as well as keeping fingerprints off it.
Next you’ll want to find an interesting location, and set the sphere on the ground. Shoot it as best you can from directly above it, without you being included in the reflection. For this shot, I climbed to the top of the middle tree — the tallest one — and used a 1200mm lens with a 2x extender.
If you are not comfortable with heights, this project is definitely not for you.
WARNING: Do not attempt this project unless you are completely willing to risk your life for a photograph of questionable value. At the very least, you must be an expert climber, a very experienced photographer, and extremely gullible. For more information, please see my Legal section
Free Mac OS X icons (and possibly Windows XP)
These are back by request. As always, they are already applied to folders.
DOWNLOAD (ZIP, 165 KB)
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Free Mac OS X and Windows XP icons
More free icons, if, for nothing else, to add some new color and uniqueness to your desktop.
No installation needed … they are already applied to folders. Just copy and enjoy.
MAC DOWNLOAD (DMG)
WIN XP DOWNLOAD (ZIP)
Free Mac OS X and Windows XP icons
For all my friends who either sell or shop at their local farmers’ markets across the country, I humbly present to you a free folder-icon to keep your organic files properly stored in.
MAC DOWNLOAD (DMG)
WIN XP DOWNLOAD (ZIP)
Free Mac OS X icon
It’s just my literal interpretation of Java running on (down and through) a MacBook. The lipstick, well, it just added a little color.
Free Mac Icons
These two icons really have no business being together, so if only one interests you, you may return the other for full credit towards another icon. For more information, refer to the Legal section.
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NOTE: This post has been replaced with this one, featuring both the Leopard and Tiger versions of LiteIcon.
In my first post, the one with the free replacement trash cans, I mentioned CandyBar, an application that allows a Mac-user to easily change out virtually any system icon, as well as most others. The price is reasonable (US$12.95) but most people probably have better things to do with $13 if they only plan to occasionally change out an icon or two. Being a designer of icons, I bought a copy of CandyBar and think it’s quite cool.
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Free Mac OS X icon
Of course, this can be used for iPhoto or any other similar application. I don’t use iPhoto much anymore, but I got tired of looking at the stock icon just the same.
It also make a great folder icon for photos. Now saved as an Apple dmg file instead of a Stuffit file.
Free Mac OS X icons
I do apologize for the title error. It was supposed to say: “Percolating Corn.”
Percolated corn is very much like popped corn, but because of the way it is heated to pop, the corn forms an almost perfectly symmetrical flower shape. Its origins are in the southwest region of the U.S. For more information, please refer to the Legal section.
In any event, when entering this site, it is required that the right-side of your brain is, at the very least, maintaining a nice idle. If it is not, you must jump-start it before going further. Imagination is required here. continue reading >>
Free Mac software — Force Folders to Expose Themselves
At the end of each of my posts for free icons is a link about how to fix a folder that’s apparently missing its contents — of course, nothing is actually missing, but the folder is being lazy. This is not an isolated problem, but one which seems to be effecting Mac OS X folders in general … the contents of folders are not always updated as quickly as they should be.
As a test, I downloaded the same folder six times, all within a few minutes. Once the folder appeared empty, and five times it showed some or most of the actual contents, but never all the contents. The quick fix I describe in my link is fairly easy, but there’s even an easier way.
It’s called “Nudge” — a free contextual menu by Rainer Brockerhoff, distributed with permission. Once installed, right-click (or option left-click) then drag to the “nudge” option on a folder, document, hard drive, etc., and it will simply be forced to update. I use it everyday. If you’ve ever saved a file to a folder, and then couldn’t find it in that folder, only to have it appear there later, you’ll begin to understand the usefulness of Nudge.
http://brockerhoff.net/nudge
Current Version: 1.2 for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (not compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6x)
Version 1.01 is still available for 10.3 and earlier
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