Staying with the “icons” topic, let me introduce FinderIconCM, a contextual menu with a purpose similar to that of Micon. This little app rounds off the triumvirate of icon/thumbnail apps that I’ve used for many months.

CocoThumbX is good for replacing generic image icons with actual thumbnails of the pictures. Micon and FinderIconCM are both good for copying/pasting icons to and from items, and can handle large selections of items at once. While Micon uses a drop well and has an icon history menu, FinderIconCM rests in the Finder’s right-click menu and has a “Stock” where you can save up to 80 icons for later use.

FinderIconCM also has a “Create Folder Icon” option where you can combine the icon of the selected item with system icons, like a folder, document, or volume, thus creating a new icon out of two. For example, if you have a folder filled with text files and want to know what’s inside by just looking at the folder, you can make a new icon of a text document superimposed on the icon of a folder.

This one’s lots of fun and very versatile, so be sure to explore it’s features fully.

I’ve always liked this one. And so will anyone else who has used the Inspector or Get Info options in the Finder to change an icon before. Micon does it much quicker. Drop the folder or file with the desired icon into the FileWell on the left, then drop the folder/file whose icon is to be changed in the Well on the right and hit “Set.” That’s easy. Now consider that Micon lets you drag-and-drop great multitudes of files into the right FileWell and change them all at once. And then there’s the incredibly handy History menu to remember icons that you have previously bestowed, as well as contextual menus and a mini-manual for easy instructions (as if the program weren’t intuitive enough).

CocoThumbX, a favorite of my artist brother, changes your images icons’ to the images themselves. For example, a picture of the Bellagio fountains from your last Vegas trip probably has a white icon with the letters “JPEG” on it. Drag the picture to CocoThumbX and the icon is immediately changed to a thumbnail version of the picture itself. Very cool.