Customize Macintosh Desktop Icons

[mathews]

I am much familiar with Microsoft windows. But last month my dad bought me a new computer with MAC OS. I don't know much about this Operating system so i am tired of its boring, impersonal, generic computer desktop but not quite sure how to change it.

Could you all help me for the same...

[Isaac1]

Mac icon images are 32 by 32 pixels. You can attempt to use a larger image, but it might get shrunken in a strange way.To customize desktop icon in MAC OS, try this steps:-

1. Create, copy or scan an image file into a paint program.

2. Copy the image to the Clipboard by pressing Command-C.

3. Select the icon you want to use the picture with.

4. Open the File menu and choose Get Info, or press Command-I.

5. Click in the box at the upper left corner of the Get Info dialog box.

6. Press Command-V to paste the image into the box, and voilÃ* - your new image will be used for the icon picture.

[Gusgr8]

To change desktop wallpaper and screensaver in MAC OS, try this steps:-

• In the dock, click on System Preferences.
  
  
• Under Personal, click on Desktop and Screensaver.
  
  
• Under the Desktop tab, you can browse around the folders on your Mac as well as the albums in your iPhoto library. Once you find an image, click on it to set that image as your new desktop wallpaper.

Your screensaver is the animation that fills your screen when your Mac is idle for an extended period of time. From the Screensaver tab (located right next to Desktop) you can select an animation and set the amount of idle time to wait before activating it.

[Larry ward]

For the more technically inclined (or technically curious) readers, you can customize your Mac’s menu bar to display all sorts of information about the status of the system. MenuMeters form Raging Menace uses animated icons to tell you how much network activity is going on, how much memory is used/free, what the processor is up to, how much disk I/O is going on and even what the CPU temperature is like.