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Convergence. It’s all the rage, lately, and what better two items to converge than your Mac, running OS X, and your iPad (or iPhone, or iPod touch), running iOS? IT’s two great tastes that taste great together, to quote an old commercial that mostly no one has heard of any more. With...

Scott Hanselman is a Microsoft programmer, stand-up comedian, and author. And now, he is a philosopher of computer iconography. The bane of his existence? It's the Icons whose real world analogues no longer exist. Here are five of the worst offenders. For the rest of the list, be sure to visit Sc...

Here is another sign of the arrival of Retina(ish) displays to the next-generation MacBook Pros: in addition to new high definition cursors in the previous version, the latest Lion update has new ultra-high resolution app icons. More »

Today, our computers and mobile devices house many stunning icons that often influence our desire to use a certain application or open a folder. The icons in our machines are practically part of our lives as we see them almost everyday. It is never a bad idea to customize these icons in order to ...

Jesus Diaz put up a fascinating comparison of the 512×512 icons Apple currently uses on the Mac and iOS devices and the 16×16 icons Apple used on the original Mac.Absolutely incredible.Here are some more staggering numbers: 28 years ago, a monochrome icon on the Mac was 16 x 16 pixels. ...

How many ways are there to design a chat icon? Here at Cult of Mac, we’re a big fan of HipChat, a phenomenal team calibration tool based around group chat and IM, which works on any platform with dedicated apps for Mac and iOS. In fact, it’s how we keep in touch with each other throug...

Soon after the 10.7.3 update to OS X Lion, people started finding subtle differences in the pointer icons for OS X (hat tip to Daring Fireball). Specifically, the link, grab, copy, and screenshot pointers have all been updated with slightly new iterations for the first time since OS X 10.2, rel...

Melissa Holt of MacObserver posts a quick and nifty little trick that should really help you organize your iOS homescreen more effectively.In iOS 4, Apple introduced folders. Users can group similar apps together inside a folder for easy access simply by pressing and holding an app icon – w...
Ever since I jailbroke my iPhone 4S using Absinthe, it has been behaving a little weird, sometimes displaying white icons or even transparent icons for certain applications.It seems that this issue only affects Apple’s stock applications such as the Phone app, Calendar, etc.I can’t re...
There are some jailbreak utilities that are considered to be more or less essential. In fact, Sebastien wrote a post this morning detailing his top 10 must-have tweaks. Then there are others that don’t really serve much of a purpose.IconBounce definitely falls in the latter category. ItR...