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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Icon Search Engine

If you do not like to create your own icons with a program like IcoFX Icon Editor you can use the Icon Look search engine instead which provides an easy to use interface and search. The main interface consists of a search form and three links in the footer. The search results are quickly displayed [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web, Uncategorized

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 9

IcoFx Icon Editor

I usually do not care that much about the icons on my computer. Sometimes however I encounter an icon that looks so ugly or misplaced that I have to change it. One possibility would be to use an icon editor like IcoFx to create a new icon, makes only sense if you are somewhat talented [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

High Quality Visual Styles, Wallpapers and Icons

Studio Twenty Eight is the homepage of designer Javier Ocasio who is offering his services and also some of his visual styles, wallpapers and icons on that site. Each category contains a list of free downloads. You naturally can’t expect to find hundreds of different wallpapers, styles or icons on the website but you do [...]

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Categories: Cool, Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Pixelformer Advanced Icon Editor

I have to admit that I’m not much of a designer and that I have to rely on friends and people I pay to deliver designs for my websites. I mainly use image editors to reduce the size of images or merge them but that’s it. I discovered Pixelformer a few days ago, it’s an [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 29th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Create Textless Desktop Icons and Shortcuts with Enhanced Context Menu

That’s probably the longest title that I’ve ever selected for an article here at Ghacks. A default Windows desktop contains several icons that have special “abilities” which stand in contrast to the shortcuts that users can create. If you take the Internet Explorer icon for example you notice that a right-click opens up a menu [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

Quality icons from VistaICO

VistaICO is a site that offers only a few icons, but the ones they do have are very high quality. The site looks a bit like an adsense site, the navigation is a bit weird, but you can find all the icons in the download section, and some cool wallpapers too.
They only offer 5 full [...]

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Categories: Online Services, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Extract Icons from Applications

The question on how to keep an icon from a previous application came up in my article about Imagine, a nice fast image viewer and a reader suggested the Nirsoft software Icons Extract to grab the icon from the old program and put it in a place where you can use it for the new application as well.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

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