Special icons for Mail!
Changing applications icons is a good and easy way of customising your computer and operating system. To change the icon, you simple have to select the downloaded icon and press "Command - I" or choose "Get info" from the Finder File menu. You then click on the small thumbnail of the icon in the upper left corner and press "Command - C" to copy it. With the application closed, you "Get info" of the app, click the small icon in the upper left corner and press "Command - V" to paste it in there. That's it. Thanks to Antony Ellam for posting the following great icons on his blog and thanks also to hawkwings.net for the Canadian Mail Icon.
You can download the following icons here:
You can download the following icons here:
And this one here:
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
3/23/2007
26 Comments:
This would be cool except the icon show the stamp with a big white block around it that looks pretty sloppy. Any ideas on how to get around this?
You cannot just copy these images or you'll get the white square around. You actually have to go on to the site I linked. They offer the icon for download and they are okay.
MacGeek
I downloaded the icon, and replaced it....now it just shows up as the icon NOT the image!!!!! it's like a preview icon.....
And now I can't get it to go back to the original....someone PLEASE HELP!
to restore to default just highlight the icon on the top, in the get info window, and hit delete.
Permutation1234, you just have to go to 'info', click the icon, and hit the delete button. And voila the default one is loaded
I would like to know how to change the icon for a group of files, let's say for ALL files that are ".java" or ".c"
It would be nice to create groups that all have the same icon.
Any ideas?
73' LX1FC
Ive been doing this for years, and you dont need fancy software to make your own. Just pick a photo youve made, and use the thumbnail, get info, and there it is. My desktop is covered with them. But you can get confused with what is a folder and what is a photo you are working on(Photoshop is the one I use).
If anyone wants details, I can explain the process, but its just exactly like today's tip.
Jane
This comment has been removed by the author.
I can't see a thumbnail in my "get info" window. All I see is something that says PNG. I don't really want this as my new icon for Mail. Any thoughts?
I've seen this tip before, and it sadly doesn't work for me: must be doing something wrong. With both the icns and png files, Get Info top left hand corner shows a Preview Icon, and not actually a miniaturised version of the icns or png file itself. Its probably something blindingly obvious that I'm not seeing. I tried changing the "Open with" setting, and oddly enough *that* changes the icon in the top left. Very odd
Did you drag or copy the picture from this website or did you actually download the files from the link in the post? With the gif or jpg that are here on the site, I get the same Gif or Jpg icon that you are talking about. If I get the .icns from the other websites, I get a smaller version of the icon in the thumbnail.
MacGeek
Here is one that I just scanned, and you can try with this one, make it the size you want, pretty close to icon size. Save image to desktop, then use any image editor thing, like Photoshop.
Then give it a try.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1C5QSiqZwtdZW82IvDgUIX4sPbEp10
Jane
Oh, you will have to paste the link in, its not showing as a link. no problem
This is delightfully brilliant. I haven't tried replacing icons since I switched to OS X a couple of years ago. No slight to Mail or to our good American neighbours, but I love having a Canadian stamp on the icon in my dock. Thanks for this, and the other great tips you share with us. I recommended your site on StumbleUpon for good measure!
cheers, jodi in Nova Scotia
When I download the file preview claims the icon and the actual image of the stamp doesn't get displayed, therefore I can't copy it to mail. What can I open it with so when I save the icon file is will display the stamp picture in "Get info"
Thanks.
This is for all of you who can only get it to disply the preview icon.
What you need to do is either
A: Go your finder and click on the desktop. Then, hit cmd-j (show view options) and check "Show Icon Preview"
B: Open the icon in preview, copy it and paste it into the mail icon space.
Hope this helps.
MacTipper
I'm wondering if you can tell me how to make it so when I download a widget or something, it automatically opens dashboard and asks me if I want to install it. It used to do this until I had to reboot my system, and now it doesn't. Hoping to hear back!
Was your last reboot 10.4.9 update? Maybe it's an update that modified the behavior of the system.
MacGeek
Well, I had to reinstall my whole system, and when I did that, it stopped opening dashboard as soon as I downloaded it. I am using 10.4.9. Is there anything I should do? It's not that big of a deal, just a little annoying to me.
Are you using Safari? If yes, do you have "Open 'safe' files after downloading" checked in Safari preferences?
MacGeek
That's probably the problem, I'm using firefox. Is there a way that it will do it with firefox?
Hi I tried that at the icon file still has a preview icon when i "get info" Any ideas?
Did the copy and paste from Preview, which kinda works, except for the horrible black background :-(
Yeah I did the copy and paste with preview. With the black background it hardly makes sense to switch. I guess I wont bother.
Great suggestion. I am a recent convert to MAC and am using Parallels to run the one Windows program I could not get for MAC. I was able to easily copy the icon I wanted to use. Thanks.
The link takes one to the UK. They are British stamps. Are there any for Canada?
How do you change the finder icon? I have some neat icons for finder but can't access finder info to change. Thanks!
There is another link just over the Canadian stamp. This is the link.
Changing the finder icon is more tricky. There is some info available here.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home