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Screencast: Finder Window Icon Trick

To celebrate Mac Day (any Steve Jobs keynote address deserves a worldwide holiday as far as I’m concerned), I’ve decided to do my first screencast, so you’ll have something to play with while waiting for the MacWorld madness to begin (it also helps justify my purchase of ScreenFlow a few months ago).

Thanks to the awesome folks at Viddler for making my life a bit easier once I got past the “export” stage…

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16 Responses to “Screencast: Finder Window Icon Trick”

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  1. Jonny Haynes says:

    Great tip Dan, I’ve been looking for something like that for ages. Cheers.

  2. Colin Devroe says:

    Nice tip. Now if you could just do a screencast of how to be more awesome, my life would be complete.

  3. That is one insane Dock you’ve got there my friend. I’m assuming you use Spotlight or Quicksilver to open apps, why do you feel the need to put every application ever on your Dock? :)

  4. You can also put them over in the left bar if you don’t like cluttering the toolbar. Drag and drop still works.

  5. Josh Walsh says:

    Cool Tips. Thanks Dan.

  6. Dan Rubin says:

    @Travis: I put my common apps down there - since it’s out of sight, I don’t mind having a longer list of apps as an alternate to typing into Quicksilver. I’m a big fan of always having multiple avenues to OS or application functions.

    @Garrett: Good point, though more people seem to know about that than the window toolbar.

  7. Bryan Veloso says:

    I would also like the screencast of how to be more awesome. Actually, this trick has made me feel more awesome ever since I went, “WTF” at seeing them on your screen. But since that’s self-contained awesomeness, it doesn’t apply.

    Also, if anybody wants the “icons that Adobe should have used for Photoshop” you can find them here: http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16785477

  8. Mark Evans says:

    Nice little trick. Appreciate the insight.

  9. I find that a very handy place for time machine, easy to access. nice screencast and a great tip.

  10. WordSkill says:

    Excellent, thanks, keep ‘em coming!

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  12. alexdc says:

    Nice tip, Dan, thanks! I like the convenience of dragging a file onto icon to open it. Sweet.

  13. Excellent, thanks, keep ‘em coming!

  14. Axel says:

    Really nice tips Dan ! Thanks for this !

  15. Sci says:

    Neat trick

  16. Gratis says:

    cool trick! i looking for something like this :-)

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