Changing Icon OSX

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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Changing the desktop or wallpaper of your Mac.

It’s very easy to change the desktop image — or “wallpaper” — of your Mac. Choose one of the beautiful backgrounds that come with every Mac, or use one of your own photos as a background.

To get started, go to the Apple menu in the top left corner of your Mac’s screen. From the menu, choose “System Preferences”. A new window appears with lots of different icons. Click the one that says “Desktop and Screen Saver”.

System Preferences with Desktop and Screensaver circled

A new window appears. It has two “tabs”. Make sure that the one called “Desktop” is selected.Continue reading