Apple icon secrets: hidden meanings hiding in plain sight | Electricpig. This is a very interesting read about the hidden meanings. I never really thought about why Apple choose certain icons, although I did think there was meaning in some of them. This would make a great trivia question for a Mac nerd friend.
Download Art Text for Mac – Create high quality headings, logos, icons, banners and buttons. MacUpdate.com. I was thinking of creating a high-quality logo for a friend of mine. Not that I am a designer, but I wanted to see what I could come up with, and then ask for professional help if he wasn’t happy. I found this free mac program that looked pretty cool. It isn’t Photoshop, but it might do the job for people who are on a budget and starting their own company. Let me know if you make something with it and I will post the image here with a link to your webpage.
So is that some religious icon or something? It’s like an Egyptian eye to me.
New Tweak Makes Your Jailbroken iPhones App Icons Look 3D. This is a fun effect. Too bad that you have to void your warranty for it. Still if you are out of warranty it might be worth trying out.
Turns out that if you change the icons manually you might cause this issue to yourself. jazzdude00021 explains below:
I did some exploring into Dock.app/Contents/Resources and found the remains of a self-done Finder icon mod that I did awhile back. Apparently Dock and Exposé use their own Finder.icns file located at /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources. I had altered this file along with Finder.apps .icns file to mod the icon manually, however I must not have changed it back properly. My guess is that during the update from Finder v 10.6.6 to v.10.6.7 the installer didnt handle it right because of my modifications. Thanks for the help to everyone who offered.
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