Mac 101: Changing the size of your icons

Whoops, sorry, that last point of mine was addressing #16, not #15.

#1, what happened is that TUAW started a Mac 101 series.

#2, explanation of the most obvious features is a defining characteristic of 101 courses.

#15, everyone is different. Some people will figure out feature X but not Y, and others will stumble upon Y but need to be told about X. I've been using OSX since its release, but I am still occasionally finding out about new features that I am sure many others long ago discovered.

It'd be a shame if no-one ever wrote about a great feature that you'd find really useful, just because they assumed that everyone would figure it out.

#15: oh come on, I'm a recent switcher too. It took me one minute to figure this out... we shouldn't need to explain this kind of thing.

As a long-time Mac user I think that it is important to offer these little tidbits of information for newbies. People in the know can always just skip over the article.
However, I have seen some recent articles which try to give ideas (organizational mostly) that are entirely pointless and have no place in the Mac community, and I will continue to point those out as ridiculous and un-Maclike.

Elliot, I think Mac Pilot will allow you to do what you're looking for systemwide, but not on a per-folder basis. Maybe some of the other apps like this (Cocktail, TinkerTool, Onyx) do it too?

Elliot, "Fall 2007" holds an elegant answer to that problem.

Does anyone know a way to decrease the spacing between icons on the desktop when "snap to grid" is selected? It seems to be set up so that the spacing's fine for large icons, but too big for smaller icons.

The only thought I had when looking at that screenshot was: how does Erica get Chandler to run?

I tried it. I've never used such a buggy and unstable program on *any* platform. After the first few crashes, it began to crash automatically on every single launch.

I can tell you it didn't stay in ~/Applications long.

Anyone that can use that program must have a serious amount of hair on their chest or have sold their soul to the devil.

@jwarmerdam - you have your window in list view, which only offers two preset icon sizes. The slider's only available when the window is in icon view.

And @1 & 2 - jeez, guys - this is Mac 101. Basics. For people who don't know this stuff.

This isn't as useful as it could be. Unfortunately reducing the icon size doesn't greatly increase the number you can get in view as the column spacing doesn't change (or not by enough), meaning that you just end up with lots of blank, useless whitespace inbetween tiny icons. Maybe Leopard will bring a Finder re-vamp to cure that.