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IconGrabber: easy icon extraction
This one is a little bit of inside (blogging) baseball, but I know a lot of our readers blog themselves and so might find this tip handy. Ankur Kothari (whose Quicksilver customizations we've mentioned before) has cooked up an excellent little Quicksilver plugin called IconGrabber that does exactly what it sounds like. It allows you to easily create an image of an application icon at an arbitrary resolution in one of several popular image formats. Using a few simple terminal commands to change the defaults you can select the default image size and format. So, for instance, here at TUAW we post lots of icons at 125px wide in the jpeg format. With IconGrabber I can now create those images in one step as you see above, where I'm saving the Time Machine icon to my TUAW pictures folder. If you're not a Quicksilver fiend, Ankur also has a stand-alone application to do the same thing. In any case, if you regularly need to extract icons as images, IconGrabber is a godsend.
IconGrabber is a free download for either the Quicksilver plugin or the stand-alone application. The instructions for customizing are in the announcement post and the comments below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Thomas De Bruyne said 8:39AM on 11-27-2007
And how can you apply the new icons you made to a folder? Is there any high-resolution Standard-Blue-Leopard-Icon available?
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deevee said 10:20AM on 11-27-2007
thanks a lot ,icongrabber made my day!
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Jono said 6:00PM on 11-27-2007
@Thomas De Bruyne
This is meant for converting icons to different image formats (to use elsewhere), not changing or replacing system icons.
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Tice said 6:53PM on 11-27-2007
Iconverter does it to. And also for free:
http://www.students.niu.edu/~z110241/
Maybe it's nice to have a good alternative.
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