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Stuff: iControl 1.0.1About ThisStuffBY ERIC BLAIR, EBLAIR@ATPM.COMiControl 1.0.1Company: The IconfactoryWeb: http://www.iconfactory.comPrice: $19.95Requirements: Power Macintosh with OS 8.5 or greaterIn my mind, one of the coolest things about the Mac OS is the ability to simply customizeyour icons. After finding the perfect icon, a few clicks 1 would have it pasted on to a folder. Ofcourse, you would eventually want all of your folders to look this nice. But even if youchanged every folder on your hard drive, any new one you created would have the defaultfolder icon. If you really wanted to, you could play around with the System File in ResEdit,but that’s not really for the faint of heart. Furthermore, with the advent of 32-bit icons, you’dalso need to edit the System Resources File to change the default 32-bit icons. Throw in thefact that this is the only way to change certain icons, like the Trash, and you can see howthings might get a bit messy.In an effort to avoid the mess, The Iconfactory created iControl, which makes changingalmost every icon in your system as simple as a few clicks. When you launch the application,you’re presented with a window that contains three buttons and a list of 74 icons showing theoriginal system icon and the current icon. The three buttons are: Restore Icon, which resetsthe selected icon to its default; Open Pack, which launches IconDragger (more on that later);and a button that links you to The Iconfactory’s homepage. Normally, I’m not a huge fan ofan application having a link to its homepage in the main portion of the interface, but iniControl’s case it makes sense, because it gives you direct access to new iPacks that are available.1. http://www.atpm.com/6.04/guijunkie.shtmlATPM 6.04 ← 87 →Stuff: iControl 1.0.1