He also started three IT periodicals covering Windows PCs, consoles and consumer tech. In the early 2000s, Chris worked his way to become Editor-in-Chief of a gaming magazine. It sparked a lifelong love for writing so strongly that he dropped out and took a leap of faith in journalism. In his graduation year, he contributed to a weekly magazine about enterprise and started a faculty e-zine distributed on campus on floppy disks. He's been blogging online since 2008 at places like Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog though his journalism experience spans 20+ years.īack in the 1990s when the web was born, Chris studied Information Science specializing in Expert Systems and Management Information Systems. He also enjoys covering Windows, Android, Entertainment, Streaming, and popular devices and apps. For example, you can easily replace the icon for Chrome with Safari's icon if you like.Ĭhristian joined MakeUseOf in 2021 as a technical writer predominantly focused on Apple's platforms. On the other hand, you can use icons of system apps as sources for third-party apps. Icons of preinstalled apps cannot be tweaked. You can swap out the default app icons in the Applications folder for custom ones, but only for third-party apps. Your custom icon should now be in place, but if you don't like it, select the icon again and hit the Delete key to switch back to the default one. In the Info panel, select the icon at the top and click Edit > Paste or press Cmd + V. Next, select the folder whose icon you'd like to replace and click File > Get Info. To change the icon for a folder or file, copy the new icon by selecting the file and pressing Cmd + C.

icns extension when browsing online repositories to ensure compatibility. PNG or JPG images can work as icon sources, but it's best to use Mac-compatible ICNS files. macOS even lets you set custom icons for apps. To scale Finder icons up or down, choose Show View Options in the View menu and use the controls next to Icon Size to make changes.

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