Tag: ICONS

If you spend a lot of time changing your Windows desktop resolution, there's a good chance you also spend a lot of time rearranging your desktop icons. That's because every time you change to a new resolution and then change back, Windows tends to knock your desktop icon layout of whack. A few months back, we looked at Icon Restore, a nifty little tool that lets you save the state of your ...

Have you ever wanted to find a program icon so you could apply it to another application or just copy and paste the pretty picture into an image or Word document? While some program icons are clearly labeled as ICO files, others are hidden inside of EXE, DLL, OCX and CPL files. But you can still get at them, using the freeware application IconsExtract. Here's how it works. You choose a directory ...

Text messages are all well and good, but the kids these days, they like graphics. So when Zlango launched a service to offer enhanced emoticons and icons for mobile phone and web use, we were suitably impressed. The company came up with a hieroglyphic-like "language," complete with 200 different icons, some of which hold multiple meanings. While it's not a complete language, you can convey ...

There are free icon sets and icon fonts all over the internet, but nothing is as special as one that represents the place you call home. 10four design based out of Vancouver BC has put up for the taking an iconic font that represents Canadian life. All things Canadian come together in this special set called Adanac, including beer, lumberjacks, kraft dinner, poutine, zambonis, beavers, toques ...

Pimptastic icons can really make a highly customized desktop environment feel, well, cozy. If you're the sort of person who gets all squiggly inside over rendered 3d icon love, Iconfinder is a definite must see. Just back online after an unspecified absence, Iconfinder lets you search for all sorts of icons just like you'd search for any other web content. You won't find everything you're ...

[Update] Thanks to DLS reader Kevin for pointing out in the comments that these icons are only for personal use. Pixel Press Icons does however have a page of royalty-free 16x16 icons that can be used anywhere. One of the quickest way to put a personal stamp on your computer is to use custom icons. For those of us that have become addicted to creating the perfect icon set, it can become a mission ...

Windows Mobile Device Center is vista's version of ActiveSync, for synchronizing data between your PC and Windows Mobile PDA or smartphone. When it loads, you get a nice little graphic of a generic PDA and smartphone. But what if you want a picture that looks like the Pocket PC you've got docked in a cradle on your desk? Michael Railing at PDAPhoneHome figured out where Windows stores the icon ...

Ooh, now this is cool: Lifehacker points us to a this great Stylish script that gently tweaks Gmail to put meaningful icons next to messages with attachments. Instead of a generic paperclip icon, this puts a PDF icon next to messages with PDF attachments, an image icon next to messages with attached images, and so on for Word docs, Zip files, text files, executables, video files, and so on. Very ...

One of the easiest and best ways to update a boring desktop is to swap out the ugly default icons for fancy updated ones. For anyone that enjoys making their desktop look as good as possible, they'll want to make iconaholic.com a regular stop. There you'll find beautiful icon updates for applications like µTorrent and Google Talk, amongst other more generic icon sets. What more is there to ...

A couple days ago Ryan brought us RocketDock, the best Apple dock emulator I've seen so far. While using it, I noticed that it has a setting in the options that allows you to turn on "UberIcon" support. At first I was confused, as I wasn't sure if that was just a mode in RocketDock, but since it didn't appear to do anything, I went looking on Punk Software's site. And lo and behold, I found that ...

If you're looking for icon sets to spice up your system, check out IconFactory's free offerings. All icon packs are offered in icontainer, Mac and Windows file formats. Arcade Daze really caught my eye, hearkening back to my days in dingy arcades playing DigDug, Pole Position, and all those classics. Am I showing my age? Oops. ...

Awhile back I blogged about changing Windows folder icons to make navigation faster. It's a great productivity booster and I've been doing it ever since, but I'm going to have to give iColorFolder a try. Like the folder icons, iColorFolder makes folder navigation in Windows easier, in this case by letting you assign colors to your folder icons, which is done from the right-click context menu. It ...

Speaking of new looks, Microsoft's design site (which I didn't even know existed) has a page on some of the new design elements in Office 2007. We've heard plenty about the ribbon, of course, but the site also goes over Office 2007's three themes (sky blue, OS X silver, and Vader black), as well as the new application icons that are coming soon to a desktop near you. Office 2007's new aesthetic is ...

Desktop icons are a pain to use--to get at them you have to stop what we're doing and minimize everything--so why do we keep using them? Hey, don't ask me. A blogger called AJ, though, has put together a handy tutorial for ditching desktop icons in Windows altogether and replacing them with less disruptive alternatives, namely a handy taskbar pop-up or extra toolbar. It's pretty straightforward ...

TUAW has a seemingly exhaustive list of desktop wallpapers, icons, and all the other stuff we love to use to pretty up our desktops. Though the list is Mac-centric, (I can't imagine why!) many of the resources listed are of use to Windows users as well. The lists are a result of the TUAW community's input when asked their favorite sites for desktop customizations. Thanks guys! ...