Dear potential Dock icon candidate - How to decide what icons make it to your dock

Written on June 01, 2008 by Todd Baur and 18 people have commented

I have a whole batch of criteria for what makes it in my dock and gets tossed. I know we all have something that makes us promote an application to its often-clicked life in the Dock. I thought I would share some of mine and also see what readers do with their Dock icon set. [...]

CandyBar 3 Review

Written on November 27, 2007 by Stephanie Guertin and 2 people have commented

No sooner do I write about how I miss CandyBar then lo and behold it appears! CandyBar 3 was released today, available at Panic. It’s $29 for a license, and there’s a free 14 day trial if you want to take it for a spin first. A discount is available to registered [...]

UI Customization in Leopard

Written on November 26, 2007 by Stephanie Guertin and 18 people have commented

As you might have guessed from my past articles here, I tend to heavily customize the appearance of OS X on any machines I use regularly. Looking at my desktop, I see no default icons, my dock isn’t much better, and every time I use someone else’s machine, I’m generally surprised by the candy-colored [...]

Shiny Things

Written on August 08, 2007 by Stephanie Guertin and 3 people have commented

There was a mention on TUAW the other day of a version of the System Preferences icon made to look like the one from Leopard. Being both excited about Leopard and and very fond of changing my system icons, I took a look - and was very pleasantly surprised.

The icon is quite nice, and [...]

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