I got sick of staring at a couple of the standard dock icons. XAMPP and FileZilla were especially horrid. Less wasn’t as bad, but the weird balance of the logo was driving me crazy.
FileZilla Goodbye red stamp looking thing
Less App If you aren’t using Less yet, you’re really wasting time writing CSS.
XAMPP Much better, don’t you think?
Skype (I found this little gem somewhere)
Nimbuzz (another gem I found) SIP/AIM/gTalk
Terminal (perdy)
Ecto
Outlook. The program you love to hate.
Google Chrome. It was a long fought battle to get me to switch from Safari to Chrome. Now that they have my heart, I have a new icon.
Lastly FontPicker has the worst icon on the block. Adobe Air app to test different fonts.
If you want to use any of these icons on your mac in the dock bar you will need to convert them to icns files.
Here are the directions to do so.
- Save whichever icon you want
- Go to this website: http://iconverticons.com/
- Upload your new saved icon and click convert.
- For a mac save the .ICNS version
Now you need to replace your current app icons.
First find the application you want to change. Right click the app and select “Show Package Contents” (like shown below)
Next find the image you are trying to change. You will need to click into the “contents” folder then the “resources” folder. Once you find the image in the resources folder, make sure to rename your icon to exactly match what’s already in the folder. Example: Icon.icns, or SomeAwesomeApp.icns
Notes, Reminders, Hints, etcOnce you change your icon you can’t get it back. You could try renaming the original file to Icon-backup.icns before you copy in your new icon. Also I accept no liability if you destroy every working part of your machine, phone, and violate every policy you’ve ever signed by attempting anything mentioned herein.
Good luck!
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Jesse
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