Icons for Windows and Mac
I found an interesting section on the Interfacelift website which lets you download icon packages for use on Windows and Macintosh systems. You find more than 90 pages each with 10 icon packages for Macintosh, and 24 pages with 10 icon packages each for Microsoft Windows. Downloads are free of course, and icons look great. The site opens a popup with advertisement as well. If that annoys you use a popup blocker, or an ad blocker for your web browser of choice.
Update: The page has received light updates throughout the year. It now features more than 1300 icon sets on 135 pages, which is only a small increase if you consider that we are talking about a period of six years here, and that the original listing had already 114 pages of icons listed.
The free desktop icons page is now also listing icon sets for Linux which is one of the changes that you will notice when you visit it. Even though Linux is listed there, only 19 icon sets are provided for the operating system on 2 pages.
The top of the page lets you sort the icons in various ways, from the already mentioned operating system listings, to listing icons by ratings, total number of downloads or user comments. Downloads are still free and available even for users who are not registered or logged in on the site. This is without doubt one of the core reasons for the site's overall popularity.
Most icon packages that you download come with a readme that informs you about license agreements, but does not really explain how you change your existing desktop icons to the new icons.
Windows 7 users can right-click a blank spot on their desktop, and select Personalization from the context menu. They then see Change desktop icons listed in the upper right corner.
This is only offering you to change a few icons. If you need a program that can edit a larger number of icons, you may want to take a look at Icon Phile which can do that.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.