{"id":272,"date":"2007-05-19T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T08:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=272"},"modified":"2007-05-19T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T08:15:46","slug":"killerappsformacimg2icns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/killerappsformacimg2icns\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Apps for Mac – img2icns"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis is more of a specialty program than ones we’ve profiled in the past, but it has been a great help to me lately so I thought it worth sharing. Nerd declaration: I am a personalization fiend. Everything I can change or modify on my Mac, I do. The first line of customization on the Apple is of course the dock icons, which can sometimes prove frustrating. That’s where img2icns comes in.
\nImg2icns was made by “Shiny Frog”:http:\/\/www.shinyfrog.net\/,<\/a> an Italian software design firm. The official English site for the app is “here”:http:\/\/www.shinyfrog.net\/en\/software\/img2icns\/.<\/a> Normally with most icons, you can just copy and paste previously made icons (instructions and examples “here”:http:\/\/interfacelift.com\/icons-mac\/faq.php),<\/a> but sometimes I’ve wanted to make my own using photoshop or fireworks. Img2icns is a very simple application that converts any kind of picture file to Apple’s proprietary .icns file type, and therefore make that image able to be used as a dock icon.
\nPreviously featured _Killer Apps for Mac._
\n* “Adium”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/129\/killer-apps-for-mac-adium<\/a> – an alternative chat client
\n* “Sidenote”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/111\/killer-apps-for-mac-sidenote<\/a> – a VERY helpful note-taking program
\n* “Darwiin Remote”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/193\/KillerAppsforMacDarwiinRemote<\/a> – an application that allows the use of the Wii-remote as an input
\n* “Mac Pilot”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/174\/KillerAppsforMacMacPilot<\/a> – an interface to control more options on the Mac
\n* “Disk Inventory X”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/163\/KillerAppsforMacDiskInventoryX<\/a> – visualizes the hard disk
\n* “Tangerine”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/150\/KillerAppsforMacTangerine<\/a> – analyzes and organizes the iTunes library by beat characteristics
\n* “SizzlingKeys”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/119\/killer-apps-for-mac-sizzlingkeys<\/a> – allows universal control of iTunes through simple hotkeys
\n* “Vienna Reader”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/204\/KillerAppsforMacViennaReader<\/a> – an OS X-integrated RSS reader with an internal browser
\n* “VLC Player”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/228\/<\/a> – the best media player in existence, it plays anything
\n* “App Zapper”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/231\/<\/a> – tracks down all the caches and libraries for deleted applications and deletes them
\n* “TV Shows”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/232\/<\/a> – automatically downloads torrent files of TV shows
\n* “UnRarX”:http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/234\/KillerAppsforMacUnRarX<\/a> – very good at decompressing .rar files<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is more of a specialty program than ones we’ve profiled in the past, but it has been a great help to me lately so I thought it worth sharing. Nerd declaration: I am a personalization fiend. Everything I can change or modify on my Mac, I do. The first line of customization on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,29],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-apple","tag-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}