Ordinary folders in the Mac OS X Finder are always displayed with the same boring old blue folder icon.
Sometimes you might want to liven this up. Perhaps you browse a music or photo collection through the Finder. Maybe you create artwork, or own a collection of home movie DVD files.
Whatever things you have, one thing is for sure — the standard blue folder icon doesn`t give you many clues about the folder`s contents.
This is where Add Folder Icons comes in. It uses any pictures found inside a given folder to create a customised icon based on a configurable icon style.
Add Folder Icons provides a set of built-in icon styles but you can also create your own.
NOTE: Add Folder Icons can only be downloaded via the Mac App Store (the download link redirects you to its App Store page). To purchase/download applications via the App Store an Apple account is required.
Here are some key features of "Add Folder Icons":
· SlipCover integration - Now you can use SlipCover cases for icons as well as customising Add Folder Icon`s own icon generation parameters. Many thanks to the SlipCover author for contributing the code to make this possible!
· Basics, like integration with system preferences, tabbed preferences panes, modal sheets and so-on; all aspects of general Mac OS X GUI development with XCode
· Extensive use of Cocoa bindings
· CoreData for icon style storage
· Full application localisation
· Multiple threads and worker tasks within modal run loops
· Inter-thread communication with NSConnection
· The application help mechanism and its specific implementation under Snow Leopard
· Extended use of blocks and concurrency in enumeration loops and the like, with Grand Central Dispatch continuing to underpin the command-line tool behind the scenes.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Easy removal of custom icons to reset folders back to normal.
· Better looking icons for some style combinations, for example when drop shadows or rotation are turned off.
· Better use of available icon space (larger icons) in cover art mode for some style combinations, such as, again, when drop shadows or rotation are turned off.
· Processes images up to 64MB in size, increased from 6MB, since many digital camera raw files exceed the previous limit. This will become configurable in a future update.
