About This Particular Macintosh 6.04 - eDisk
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Trash ‘n’ AppleFinally, iMacolor 6 , from our aforementioned friend Hide Itoh, is a handy little freeware controlpanel that alters the look of the Apple menu and trash can icons.As you can see, you can choose from any of the iMac colors, from the original Bondi to thegraphite of the iMac DV Special Edition and the G4 desktop, plus “Java Brown ”for Lombardand Pismo PowerBook users. Curiously, the right-most golden color isn’t available in thecontrol panel.6. http://www.atpm.com/5.09/imacolor.shtmlATPM 6.04 ← 26 →Columns: The Icons, They Are A-Changin’
It’s very easy to use iMacolor. Simply choose your preferred color in the popup menu foreach item, and you get a preview, as shown above. Restart your Mac, and voila! A new coloredApple menu apple and trash can.As an added bonus, Hide is nice enough to include iMac iconsfor use with iMacolor by iMac owners. The iMac icons are up toHide’s usual high standards, and are offered in a wide range ofposes. Alas, they have not yet been updated to reflect the newiMac range, but all of the colors are there, save graphite.As you can see, there are a myriad of uses for custom icons,from expressing your personality by marking certain folders or files, to just using them asplain ol’ eye candy. One caveat, however, with regard to the use of custom icons: the morecustom icons you use, the more your system performance decreases. This rings especiallytrue when rebuilding the desktop (you do rebuild your desktop at least once a week as preventivemaintenance, don’t you?). The more custom icons you have, the longer it will takefor your desktop to rebuild, so choose your icons and choose them well.Finally, here is a shot of my iBook’s desktop:Rather plain, compared to the Star Wars desktop from my G3 mini-tower featured lastmonth 7 , I know, but there is more there than meets the eye. While I am using the standardATPM 6.04 ← 27 →Columns: The Icons, They Are A-Changin’
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It’s very easy to use iMacolor. Simply choose your preferred color in the popup menu foreach item, and you get a preview, as shown above. Restart your Mac, and voila! A new coloredApple menu apple and trash can.As an added bonus, Hide is nice enough to include iMac iconsfor use with iMacolor by iMac owners. The iMac icons are up toHide’s usual high standards, and are offered in a wide range ofposes. Alas, they have not yet been updated to reflect the newiMac range, but all of the colors are there, save graphite.As you can see, there are a myriad of uses for custom icons,from expressing your personality by marking certain folders or files, to just using them asplain ol’ eye candy. One caveat, however, with regard to the use of custom icons: the morecustom icons you use, the more your system performance decreases. <strong>This</strong> rings especiallytrue when rebuilding the desktop (you do rebuild your desktop at least once a week as preventivemaintenance, don’t you?). The more custom icons you have, the longer it will takefor your desktop to rebuild, so choose your icons and choose them well.Finally, here is a shot of my iBook’s desktop:Rather plain, compared to the Star Wars desktop from my G3 mini-tower featured lastmonth 7 , I know, but there is more there than meets the eye. While I am using the standardATPM <strong>6.04</strong> ← 27 →Columns: The Icons, They Are A-Changin’
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