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Get Hi-Res Icons Of Any Mac App In Seconds

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I just learned this trick and was completely blown away. There’s been countless times where I’ve needed full hi-res icons of applications on my Mac, but have been unable to find any. With this trick you’ll be in heaven.

More in Tutorials | May 25th, 2009

I just learned this trick and was completely blown away. There’s been countless times where I’ve needed full hi-res icons of applications on my Mac, but have been unable to find any. With this trick you’ll be in heaven.


Head over to your Applications folder and find the one you want. Select the application and copy it (Cmd+C, Edit-Copy). Open Preview and open new from Clipboard. You’ll not only have a full hi-res version of the icon, you’ll have every size, even the 8-bit version. Amazing.

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4 Responses to “Get Hi-Res Icons Of Any Mac App In Seconds”

  1. Jeremy says:
    May 25, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Sweet trick. Good to know

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  2. Andrew K. says:
    May 26, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Check out the TextEdit icon. It’s now my favorite icon. Simply Amazing.

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