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I bought a new iMac, as referenced in the previous post, and have since been obsessed with tricking it out and maximizing its newness. This weekend, against better judgement, I took an afternoon to make custom icons for the applications in my doc. It was totally fun to do, though far more time-consuming than originally planned. I highly suggest everyone skip trying to do it manually and instead opt for Candybar, an awesome application by Panic. You can manually adjust almost all of them (by digging through the resource folders and replacing the .icns files), but on some of them it was a bit tricky and took some figuring out (like the finder is impossible to change in snow leopard apparently, but easily changed in candybar). If you want to make your own icons, download FastICNS, which is INCREDIBLY easy to use. If you google “change doc icon” or “change [program] icon” or something similar, you’ll find all kinds of good forums on how to technically do stuff, where to find the .icns files, etc. Here are my icons as seen in the doc and slightly larger to the right:

Apple's Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server is aimed squarely at small businesses that, for any number of reasons, need or prefer to host their core Internet services in-house without breaking the bank. Ars kicks the tires on the new combo to see if Apple has another hit on its hands.

it allows you to copy songs and videos from any iPod or iPhone to any Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher.

SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X. It can, of course, make a full backup, or "clone" — in moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file. In even le

Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface.