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PrintScreen In Your Mac

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Mac users can easily take a “print screen”, which means saving a copy of what’s on your Mac’s screen at the moment. This copy will be saved as an image on your desktop. It’s a great way of sharing what exactly you’re seeing on your Mac’s screen.

Print Screen of Entire Screen

To take a print screen of the entire screen, press command-shift-3. If the audio is turned up, you will here a camera sound effect. After a second or two, the print screen will be saved on your Mac’s desktop as a PNG file (a popular image format).

Print screen of Mac desktop

Print Screen of Selection

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Changing Icon OSX

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Changing icons is quite easy, but if you haven’t done it before, it’s hard to know how to do it – it’s nothing you’ll learn by guessing. However, we’ll teach you!

1. Get new icons

The first thing you must do is get new icons. Try these sites (this is not advertising, we just like them):

Iconfactory’s freeware archive

Iconfactory has a nice and rather big archive of Mac icons. When you wish to download an icon, there are three different formats to choose from. Pick the middle one, with the Apple logotype on it, and you will get the right format.

Click the Apple logo in order to get the right format when downloading from Iconfactory.com.

Interfacelift’s icon archive

Another nice web site is Interfacelift. Their archive contains many nice icons available for free download. Take me there!

2. Show info about the downloaded icon

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