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Lion Skin Pack Turns Windows 7 Into Mac OS X Lion

11:00AM April 20, 2011 | Adam Dachis

If you like the new look of Lion, you’re out of luck on a Mac but oddly in luck if you own a Windows 7 PC. Lion Skin Pack is an easily installable set of GUI customisations for Windows 7 that make Windows look just like the next generation Mac operating system. More »


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Create Contact Icons On iOS Home Page

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9:00AM February 14, 2011 | Nick Broughall

iPhone users with lots of contacts in their address book will be familiar with the sense of frustration at having to go through at least two screens before getting access to your favourite contacts. Aussie developers Mokten have created an app that lets you create shortcuts to your favourite contacts on the iPhone’s home page. More »


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Can You Identify All These Famous YouTube Videos In Icon Form?

5:30AM January 18, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Designers Ibraheem Youssef and Paul Parolin have condensed the top 100 videos in the history of YouTube in one single chart of recognisable icons. Recognisable if you are actually up to date with all the video memes of the internet. More »


Original Mac Icon Prints By Susan Kare

12:20PM December 18, 2010 | Jason Chen

Susan Kare, famous for making UI elements and icons for the Mac in the 1980s, then NeXT afterwards, is now selling prints of her original Macintosh icons. It says to visitors, “I was a nerd before you.” [Kareprints via Laughing Squid] More »


Is Bill Gates’s Mug Shot The Generic User Icon In Outlook 2010?

4:00AM October 1, 2010 | Casey Chan

The generic user icon in Outlook 2010, the stand-in picture users see when a contact doesn’t have a photo, seems to bear a striking resemblance to Bill Gates’ infamous 1977 mug shot. Oh you slick Microsoft developer, you. More »


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Change Your iPhone’s App Icons Without Jailbreaking

9:00PM September 27, 2010 | Whitson Gordon

Jailbreakers have been theming their iPhones for a long time, but if you like to refrain from jailbreaking, you can still change that app’s ugly icon using previously mentioned iPhone Explorer. More »


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Steve Jobs On iTunes 10 Icon Lambasting: ‘We Disagree’

4:48AM September 4, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

That’s what he said to designer Joshua Kopac when he told him that the iTunes 10 logo “really” sucks. No, not “prepare to die”. I mean “We disagree”. More »


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The 300,000 Biggest Websites, Visualised With Their Icons

5:20AM August 25, 2010 | Brian Barrett

How do the 288,945 biggest websites on the web stack up against each other? Take a very close look at this chart to find out. More »


The Secret Histories Of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols

3:00AM August 17, 2010 | Bryan Gardiner

They are road signs for your daily rituals – the instantly recognised symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins? More »


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The Smartarse Phone

12:40AM July 9, 2010 | Adam Frucci

Clever use of icons, sure. But I can’t help but think that this displays a distinct lack of self-awareness. [Tweetphoto - Thanks, Habs!]