“iDrives” icon set 
13
It’s not often I consider changing my system icons because I really like the standard Aqua style, but these drive icons are quite a nice alternative - different but still similar enough to fit in without me having to change the rest to match.
The set is called “iDrives” and they were made by the very talented Wolfgang Bartelme.
#1 Wayne Smallman said:
I am the purist.
I change nothing on my system.
There once was a time when I had all of the mad system ‘enhancers’ and all of the weird & wonderful icons.
A gazillion crashes later and I’m a wiser man…
on 23 March ‘05 
#2 Timmargh said:
I am a bit of a purist myself - I never had any kind of customisations when I used Windows and the only thing I change on my Mac is the icons and wallpaper.
on 23 March ‘05
#3 Wayne Smallman said:
OK, so my type of purism is synonymous with the word: ‘boring’
I don’t even change the desktop pattern anymore .. how boring is that?!
on 23 March ‘05
#4 Timmargh said:
Well, changing it too often can be distracting to one’s work … but I think we’ll stick with “boring”.
:^P
on 23 March ‘05
#5 Wayne Smallman said:
I know a guy who owns a PC and he made everything that was humanly customizable on his desktop just shades of grey. All without resorting to using 3rd-party utilities.
You can do this with the mac to some extent, but Windows has the option of changing the colour of just about anything…
on 24 March ‘05
#8 Timmargh said:
“Wish I could afford a Mac!”
Like Wayne said, get an iBook or a Mac Mini - once you have one, chances are you’ll never look back.
on 25 March ‘05
#9 SoulSniper said:
I’m a student, hence I’m poor! Even a Mac Mini is too expensive for me right now.
I compromised. I installed Linux and put a nice OSX theme on it :-)
on 26 March ‘05
#10 Timmargh said:
Good man.
Hopefully I’ll be getting a laptop, too, soon - I’d love a PowerBook but I can’t really justify the cost for what I’d use it for, so it’ll probably be an iBook.
on 26 March ‘05
#11 Wayne Smallman said:
Tim, what about this for an utterly mad desktop wallpaper idea?
Go to: http://uberamusing.blogspot.com/2005/03/transparent-screen-illusion-set.html
on 27 March ‘05
#12 Timmargh said:
That’s a coincidence: I read this recently on Veerle’s blog:
http://veerle.duoh.com/comments.php?id=319_0_2_0_C
I tried it myself but don’t have the strength to move my iMac out of the way and the missus wasn’t interested :^(
on 27 March ‘05
The conversation is closed