Hey Folders! adds colored folders to Finder

To change the icon, you simply copy an image.
ctrl.click on the file/folder or whatever, and chose get info.
Highlight the icon in the upper left and paste.
DONE ! ! .

/AK

Maple syrup in my blood, they sound like Aussies. Have you seen our money?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_dollar

Whoa holy crap!! This has not already been totally done before!!??!?!?!

http://unsanity.com/haxies/labels

If you want, you can easily change the folder icon to any color you like, good if you want to theme your Mac.

Works fine on a Powerbook with 10.4.7.

I use the colour labels a lot to prioritize and organize presentations, and items I'm working on (draft, review, rewrite, proofed and ready).

I like the coloured folders in the little scroll window when you open the finder too, great for us visual people.

I recall once chaperoning a bunch of Aussies, who absoulely loved our coloured money, they just colour coded each bill to quantity of beer — blue for pint, purple for a pitcher...red for keep them coming...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_banknotes

Labels are a throwback to the days before custom icons, to the days of System 6. They aren't as useful as they used to be. In the old days you just had black and white icons, and coloured labels made things easier to spot. Then System 7 came along with coloured icons and the ability to apply custom icons followed pretty quickly, making colour labels moot.

I actually prefer the way MacOS X's labels work, since I usually view folders in list view. Those coloured names really pop out at you.

"I wager that would result in some really funky looking icons"

I wager that you'd be wagering correctly.

*shudders as he remembers OS 9's UI*

trent:

I don't think that Rosetta will run daemons if they are PPC only.

Doesn't work under Mac OS X 10.4.7 (MacBook Pro), tried to get it started several times. Maybe because it's PPC? Any Hints welcome...

Hummm, much more like the old days, in ''Classic"...