- CandyBar allows you to customize icons in your Dock. Note that although you can customise icons individually, you can no longer customize the entire dock in Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 due to a change in the way that Mountain Lion renders the Dock. As a result, the developers made it free of charge.
- CandyBar can be used to customize your Dock’s appearance: you can change the Dock background image, the bottom edge, the separator or the active indicator. To apply the changes you will need the.
CandyBar has long been the easiest way of changing Mac OS X’s default icons for folders, application icons, the Dock, and so on. CandyBar was originally launched in 2002 by The Icon Factory and Panic and soon became a popular tool for replacing icons in Mac OS X. In August 2012, Panic announced that it would not be continuing its development and that it would become an unsupported app. But being as awesome as they are, Panic decided to offer CandyBar for free and distribute the licence code required to register it.
This download is provided to you free of charge. The download is provided as is, with no modifications or changes made on our side. The software is periodically scanned by our antivirus system. We also encourage you to check the files with your own antivirus before launching the installation. The download version of CandyBar for Mac is 3.3.4. CandyBar is a free application developed by The IconFactory for Mac that enables users to customize Mac OS’ system icons. This freeware enables users to change the icons including hard to modify icons such as volumes, trash can, default folder and many more.
Panic says:
“So where does CandyBar go from here? Well, there’s the other half of the app: the convenient icon organizer, and Quick Drop icon changer, that many of us use often. We’re handing the reins of CandyBar over to our friends at The Iconfactory. They’ve got some thoughts on CandyBar’s future, and where they might take it from here. If you bought CandyBar from us, you will of course be considered if something new shows up. Stay tuned.”
Today, there are a couple of limitations. You can’t change the icons of apps downloaded from the Mac App Store due to code signing. The Dock in Mac OS X 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion’ was changed and also cannot be altered like it used to.
Icon Resources
There are several places to download icon sets for use with CandyBar.
- InterfaceLift – A popular site which isn’t updated as frequently as it used to be, but it still has a good selection of icons available.
- The Iconfactory – The people who worked with Panic to create CandyBar, and the famous icon creators that have been around since 1996! I fondly remember using the free icons provided on Macworld magazine discs that were created by The Iconfactory.
- David Lanham – This guy seems to know what he’s doing when it comes to creating nice icons, and he’s even been interviewed by The Verge, MacThemes, MacUser and Apple Matters.
- ResExcellence – Ah, of course. How could we almost forget ourselves? Now where did we put those icons? … That’s it, they’re in the Archive! You might have to do some digging though… ?
Candy Bar For Mac Osx
Developer(s) | Panic and The Iconfactory |
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Stable release | 3.3.4[1] / August 3, 2012; 8 years ago |
Operating system | OS X |
Type | System utility |
License | Shareware |
Website | www.panic.com/candybar |
CandyBar is an unsupported OS Xapplication by Panic and The Iconfactory. Although macOS allows users to change icons for user-level files and folders, this is not possible for system files.[2] The application replaces system icons with icons/docks of the user's choice[3] and supports cataloging of icons. New icons and docks were available also from the Iconfactory website.[4] CandyBar is the successor to The Iconfactory's iControl program for Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9.
Panic has announced in August 2012 that the application would no longer be supported, and offered it as a free download instead. Further commercial development of CandyBar was hindered by changes in the macOS, it was harder to replace icons with every new version and new icons could cause problems with update of several Mac App Store applications. The final release of CandyBar runs on OS X Mountain Lion.[5] The company also had provided a serial number on its website.[1]
Candy Bar For Mac Os X
References[edit]
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- ^ ab'CandyBar, Mountain Lion, and Beyond'. 3 August 2012. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
- ^Williams, Johnathon (November 2005). 'Extreme Mac Makeover, Makeover Essential, Sweeter System Icons'. MacAddict. No. 111. Future Network USA. p. 24. ISSN1088-548X.
- ^Sadun, Erica (2004). 'Chapter 1, Transforming Your Mac'. Modding Mac OS X Extreme Makeovers For Your Mac. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 20-22. ISBN9780596007096.
- ^'Solving the leopard PUZZLE, Fix ´Em Yourself, Dock'. Mac Life. Vol. 2 no. 5. Future US, Inc. May 2008. p. 34. ISSN1935-4010.
- ^Schwan, Ben (7 August 2012). 'Icon-Tool CandyBar künftig kostenlos'. Mac & i (in German). Retrieved 16 February 2017.
External links[edit]
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