Click on that and the image opens up in its own tab, nice and big.Ĭaveat: some sites block Google Image Search so you can see the image in the results view but not as a separate image. Look closely at the options: it’s “ View Image” that you seek.

Click on an image to get more info about the photo… Some very sweet cars, no question (though I wouldn’t want to have to drive over speed bumps in some of them!). Here I’ve already done a search for “cool cars”: Leave that window alone now and jump over to your Web browser, to Google Image Search. Nothing here matters for what we’re doing other than the actual folder icon on the top left. If you’re a keyboard shortcut maven, you can accomplish the same result with Command-I once you’ve selected the folder. Option-Click on the folder and its context menu pops up:Īs highlighted, you want to choose “ Get Info” to reveal the info and properties window for this particular item. By default, the Mac folder icon is pretty dull: I’ll call the folder “Cool Cars!” because, well, they’re cool cars. To demonstrate, let’s create a folder to store all the sports car photos I find online and want to enjoy again and again. Used to be you needed them a specific size and it wouldn’t work with any other dimensions, but now it’s a breeze. Not only that, you don’t have to fuss with sizes and dimensions in the latest iteration of the Mac system, which is a huge improvement.

Yes, you can replace app icons with your own alternatives! As your friend demonstrates, however, it turns out that you can absolutely customize any icon in MacOS X, whether it’s a default image - like a folder - or already customized by someone else. Few people notice when they’re installing applications on their Mac system that developers are about the only people who seem to customize their icons, whether a folder, application or data file.

Cool mac icons