Changing icons in Mac OS X

Sun, 15 January 2006

Sometimes we all wish to have a different icon for a folder, file type or application. And there are plenty of places to download them (like InterfaceLIFT ) but how to install them ? The answer is - easy.

Let’s have a look at my dock, the colour of the Firefox default icon just doesn’t fit in there. How about something blue ?

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To change this we firstly need an icon. I downloaded icon from InterfaceLIFT and placed it onto my desktop. Now we open Finder, go to Applications and find Firefox. Right click on the icon and select Get Info. This will open the following window.

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Now we need to go back to desktop and right click the icon we downloaded and select Copy.

Back to the Firefox info window where we need to click the Firefox icon once (left click). The icon will be selected and will have small shadow behind although barely visible.

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All you need to do now is to paste your new icon, simply key in Command-V on your keyboard and you get this.

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Now my dock looks a whole lot prettier.

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5 Responses to “Changing icons in Mac OS X”

  1. Gopal said: Fri, 3 August 2007 at 01:28

    This is a very good one. I learnt lot of thins which I didn’t know and I didn’t try all these in my past though I use mac everyday. Thank you very much :)

  2. Abhinav said: Mon, 10 March 2008 at 16:37

    How can you do this en masse? one icon at a time seems annoying

  3. nebo said: Sat, 15 March 2008 at 14:32

    thank you so much, this was very helpfull

    :)

    (just tell em that the icon where you need to paste the icon is on the top right when u go cmd I)

  4. emily said: Fri, 25 July 2008 at 00:01

    I used this to change my Safari icon, but then I decided that I don’t like the new icon. Is there any way I can get the original icon back?

  5. Muffin said: Thu, 4 September 2008 at 11:16

    Thanks for the article. I have always wanted to change my icons but had no idea after downloading them. I would like to know how do I change back to the original icon after I get bored?

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