Changing HDD Icons

If you want to change the icon displayed for your hard drive disk (or pretty much any other icon), without having to pay for a third party App then please read on! The process is really, first you need to find the icons that you want to use. I downloaded a set of beautiful icons from Louie Mantia.

After you have downloaded the icon, in Finder right click the icon and click Get Info, then click on the small preview of the icon at the top of the newly displayed Get Info window. The small icon should now be highlighted, either go to Edit, then Copy or press COMMAND + C.

Now, click on the drive (or folder) that you want to change, click on Get Info, click the small icon preview, and then go to Edit, then Paste or press COMMAND + V. That’s it!

If you want to further customize many more icons in Leopard/Snow Leopard, you can check out Candybar (Shareware), it’s a great App.

Add a ‘Recent Applications’ Stack

If you want a stack of recent applications that you have used, then simply paste the following into a Terminal window:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

Then afterwords, make sure you KillAll Dock. Now you have a beautifully new Recent Applications stack in your dock. As far as I know, these tips only work on OS X 10.5 (and newer).