Good icons? You're soaking in it.

I know this is original sin, but i Kind of like the icon s for M$ office on mac. I don't like garageband's, it's just a guitar. Is TrangleJuice the only one here that has the dashboard icon on their dock? I've always just used f12, or a button on my mouse. Any body else use the dashboard icon?

Any way, what's the deal with the handbrake icon? It has like a martini glass and like a palm tree or something. I don't get what that has to do with ripping dvd's of "home movies".

Automator, Pages, Transmit, Dashboard and last but certainly not least Xyle Scope!

That said, I really like the icon of our own application, TriMicSlots. Not because it's fancy, but because it seperates itself from the rest (probably because there is a lot black in it and it has a triangular shape). It really stands out in the application switcher!

Notational Velocity? Is he serious? That's like saying you really really like the animated gif's of rainbow-coloured smiley faces you find on anateur webpages. It probably took some work, as it was obviously created in 3D, but it is horrid.

My favourites are:

Address Book
Adobe CS2
Delicious Library
iChat
iSync
iWeb
Preview
Notae
OmniGraffle Pro
Transmission
VLC (stand alone cone)

And maybe a few more...

It's ether QuickTime's, iChat's, Automator's, or Firefox's icon. You can appreciate these icons best when you look at the really huge versions. I have a folder of beautiful 619 x 619 px transparent pngs that someone has on their site, however I can't provide a link because I have no clue where it was I downloaded them. I really like the firefox icon and was fortunate enough to run across a svg of it (I do have a link for this one (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=23024)) and spent some of today adding glassy/aqua goodness to it and making it my desktop picture of the day. Although I dislike firefox as a browser on Mac OS X, I like it's icon.

Hate FireFox but love the icon. Safari has a nice icon as well. I like the iChat bubble also... and... Compressor and Motion are both good. Agree w/ #11 about Adobe CS icons.. Don't make an ounce of sense and they're all too similar. If they're going to make all the icons the same they should make the interfaces the same too!

I hope he was kidding about Notational Velocity's icon...it looks like it was made with a few Photoshop filters and nothing else.

I like the OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle icons, as well as (surprisingly) the Firefox and Thunderbird icons. Also PHP Studio.

Garageband's guitar icon. Its the exact same one as my Gibson 335 =]

Shiira's icon with the little fish is cool.

And for worst icons, look no further than Adobe's Creative Suite. They used to look different, so I could easily tell which application I was launching, or which application was associated with each document. Not they look so alike I have to pause and look at them.

I tried spacing them out in my dock (Illustrator on the left, InDesign in the middle, and Photoshop on the right), but I prefer groups of associated applications, and that messed up the whole system.

The worst part is that the icons are WRONG! If anything is a feather, it should be Illustrator (Feather > Quill > Pen > Illustrator). The cementheads at Adobe are doing their damnedest to make their programs worse. I wish I could get Illustrator 8 to run in OSX.

If you're on a 12" PowerBook like myself, you HAVE to autohide the dock unless you like working on even SMALLER screens.