Killer Apps for Mac - img2icns
This is more of a specialty program than ones we’ve profiled in the past, but it has been a great help to me lately so I thought it worth sharing. Nerd declaration: I am a personalization fiend. Everything I can change or modify on my Mac, I do. The first line of customization on the Apple is of course the dock icons, which can sometimes prove frustrating. That’s where img2icns comes in.
Img2icns was made by Shiny Frog, an Italian software design firm. The official English site for the app is here. Normally with most icons, you can just copy and paste previously made icons (instructions and examples here), but sometimes I’ve wanted to make my own using photoshop or fireworks. Img2icns is a very simple application that converts any kind of picture file to Apple’s proprietary .icns file type, and therefore make that image able to be used as a dock icon.
Previously featured Killer Apps for Mac.
- Adium – an alternative chat client
- Sidenote – a VERY helpful note-taking program
- Darwiin Remote – an application that allows the use of the Wii-remote as an input
- Mac Pilot – an interface to control more options on the Mac
- Disk Inventory X – visualizes the hard disk
- Tangerine – analyzes and organizes the iTunes library by beat characteristics
- SizzlingKeys – allows universal control of iTunes through simple hotkeys
- Vienna Reader – an OS X-integrated RSS reader with an internal browser
- VLC Player – the best media player in existence, it plays anything
- App Zapper – tracks down all the caches and libraries for deleted applications and deletes them
- TV Shows – automatically downloads torrent files of TV shows
- UnRarX – very good at decompressing .rar files
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