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mdc · 08:16 PM

i had enough of the eagle on the mail icon. i went looking on the usps website and i found this stamp and i made a mail icon out of it. i thought i would put it here, just incase anyone would like it.

click to download it, if you want it. option click if it does not work

edit. created a .sitx and updated link

OwlBoy · Apr 9, 2004, 08:10 PM

Originally posted by mdc:
i had enough of the eagle on the mail icon. i went looking on the usps website and i found this stamp and i made a mail icon out of it. i thought i would put it here, just incase anyone would like it.

click to download it, if you want it.

might wanna .zip/.sit/.dmg it, your web server don't tell the browser to download it.

-Owl

mdc · Apr 9, 2004, 08:14 PM

i *just* noticed that and am uploading a .sitx of it now

new link
mail icon (option click to download)

Makki · Apr 9, 2004, 08:43 PM

Hey very nice mail icon mdc thnx man

Makki

cybergoober · Apr 9, 2004, 09:09 PM

Does it include the unread mail badge?

Mac Guru · Apr 9, 2004, 09:41 PM

If you're talking about the red star badge, it'll show up if you replace the icns in the mail.app package contents.

Mac Guru

templetalker · Apr 9, 2004, 11:23 PM

Originally posted by mdc:
i had enough of the eagle on the mail icon. i went looking on the usps website and i found this stamp and i made a mail icon out of it. i thought i would put it here, just incase anyone would like it.

click to download it, if you want it. option click if it does not work

edit. created a .sitx and updated link

Nice work MDC. It's a genuine! Any chance you could share the template or how you made it? Thanks Again

cmove · Apr 10, 2004, 07:55 AM

Very nice

mdc · 04:08 PM

here is the .psd file.

i used a .psd file that Mediaman_12 posted here a while ago, to get the postmark.
maybe we can create a mail icon collection

templetalker · Apr 11, 2004, 02:52 PM

MDC Gratsi Amigo. I have already had a great time making icons of friends for friends this past day thanks to this template you provided! I think that's a fantastic idea to make icons. Did you have "real stamps" in mind?

Originally posted by mdc:
here is the .psd file.

i used a .psd file that Mediaman_12 posted here a while ago, to get the postmark.
maybe we can create a mail icon collection

dru · Apr 11, 2004, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by mdc:
here is the .psd file.

i used a .psd file that Mediaman_12 posted here a while ago, to get the postmark.
maybe we can create a mail icon collection

Typo there it should be [url=http://mike.cosentino.com/stuff/Mail.psd] that is "stuff" rather than "sutff"

mdc · Apr 11, 2004, 04:16 PM

Originally posted by templetalker:
MDC Gratsi Amigo. I have already had a great time making icons of friends for friends this past day thanks to this template you provided! I think that's a fantastic idea to make icons. Did you have "real stamps" in mind?

my pleasure. i'm contemplating doing some "real stamps" sometime. i'm a bit busy with school work right now. i just did not like the eagle and the american flag was the first stamp i found on the usps.com website.

i just did one for someone on this forum. it is a commemorative stamp for the 11th of march spain events.

Originally posted by dru:
Typo there it should be [url=http://mike.cosentino.com/stuff/Mail.psd] that is "stuff" rather than "sutff"

fixed, thank you

Jaey · Apr 11, 2004, 05:02 PM

I don't use mail, but if I did, I would probably use that icon. Nice work

Mediaman_12 · Apr 12, 2004, 11:29 AM

If anyone want's a mail icon to (sort of) match the Matrix icon set, then here you are.

I also have done one of the recent 'concorde' Royal Mail stamp

click icon's to download.

mdc · Apr 15, 2004, 12:46 PM

made a new one today.
i have slowly been going looking through the usps website and looking for nice stamps.

option click to download

JudieKaren · 02:31 PM

Originally posted by mdc:
made a new one today.
i have slowly been going looking through the usps website and looking for nice stamps.

option click to download

Never thought I'd become a *stamp collector*, but your icons are really cool! Could you make one with the old *striped* apple logo?

My favorite striped apple is here http://www.grnluvbug.com/desk/archiv...hive_desk.html It's the one one the desktop picture called Apple X 8/03. (hint, hint?)

Thank you for sharing!

angelmb · Apr 15, 2004, 01:55 PM

Originally posted by mdc:

i just did one for someone on this forum. it is a commemorative stamp for the 11th of march spain events.

Yes, Mike did it for me and for the Mac user base here in Spain. Great guy this Mike.

mdc · Apr 15, 2004, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by JudieKaren:
Never thought I'd become a *stamp collector*, but your icons are really cool! Could you make one with the old *striped* apple logo?

My favorite striped apple is here http://www.grnluvbug.com/desk/archiv...hive_desk.html It's the one one the desktop picture called Apple X 8/03. (hint, hint?)

Thank you for sharing!

here you go.
tell me if there is anything about it that you do not like.

option click to download
is it okay for you?

Dimitri · Apr 15, 2004, 03:49 PM

Excuse my ignorance, but do I need a seperate application to replace the icon?

mdc · Apr 15, 2004, 04:08 PM

no. all you do is download the .sitx file and decompress it. there will be two files in there.
1 is app.icns. go to your mail app and control+click on it and choose show package contents and then go into the contents/resources folder and find the file called app.icns. rename it to something, to back it up. and then copy the new app.icns there.

if you want to, you can get info the icon file and the mail.app and copy the icon image onto mail.app.

now you have a new icon for mail

SSharon · Apr 15, 2004, 07:18 PM

Thanks for the striped apple mail icon. I spend most of my time in the other forums but I have always liked replacing icons and this one is great.

JudieKaren · Apr 16, 2004, 01:57 AM

Originally posted by mdc:
here you go.
tell me if there is anything about it that you do not like.

is it okay for you?

mdc,

WOW! (And I can say that backwards�WOW!) What could possibly be NOT TO LIKE! It's beautiful! Thank you so much! Bet I'm not the only one to download that beauty.

Thanks again,

andyx · Apr 16, 2004, 03:10 AM

to join in the fun,
a mail.app replacement icon featuring the first stamp ever issued
on may 1st 1840. The 'penny black', designed by Muleady.
Get the .psd file here >
http://homepage.mac.com/andyeggs/.cv...psd-binhex.hqx
if it asks for a password >
chicken

fg · Apr 16, 2004, 11:19 AM

Have a question. How do I go about to make my own stamps?

I saw some photoshop template but how do I make that into an icon?

Thanks.

mdc · Apr 16, 2004, 07:48 PM

fg: edit the photoshop file and then open a app.icns file you got and in iconographer file > import > current member, and import the edited photoshop file. in the members on the right you have to click one that is not like the photoshop you just imported then apple+a to select all and delete, and then click the thumbnail member and then add members and add members for all the 32 bit members and from: current member. then save it as a .icns file and copy it into mail. got it? good.

...

three new icons. yes, i am bored.

^ option click to download ^

i thought the official mail usa - penalty for personal use $300 use was amusing. too bad the scaling down of it kinda messed up the personal use part.

JudieKaren · 10:42 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mdc:

three new icons. yes, i am bored.

well�if you are truly bored�and are in the mood for another suggestion, is there a stamp for *9/11* with the Twin Towers--World Trade Center?

or

Here's a good colorful Statue of Liberty: http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/po...jsp?CURSOR=262

Lovin' your work!

angelmb · Apr 17, 2004, 06:46 AM

Mike, those are AWESOME, so well, you have started the e-philately thing

Do not you guys NEED to collect them all?

Of course, I have boomarked this topic yet.

Originally posted by mdc:
fg: edit the photoshop file and then open a app.icns file you got and in iconographer file > import > current member, and import the edited photoshop file. in the members on the right you have to click one that is not like the photoshop you just imported then apple+a to select all and delete, and then click the thumbnail member and then add members and add members for all the 32 bit members and from: current member. then save it as a .icns file and copy it into mail. got it? good.

...

three new icons. yes, i am bored.

^ option click to download ^

i thought the official mail usa - penalty for personal use $300 use was amusing. too bad the scaling down of it kinda messed up the personal use part.

Fellow2000 · Apr 17, 2004, 01:28 PM

Would it be possible to get a download link for the march of spain and the penny one?

It looks like they are just images posted.

andyx · Apr 17, 2004, 06:29 PM

Hi,
I've made the penny one into an icon and an .icns file.
get it here > http://homepage.mac.com/andyeggs/.cv...itx-binhex.hqx

if it asks for a password > chicken

Mediaman_12 · 07:19 PM

Grrr! While the US Mail seams to have high quality images of most (if not all) of it's stamps on there site, The UK Royal Mail site has large numbers of nasty compressed Gif's on it's site example. Perhaps they are worried about counterfitting?
There are some though that may make nice icons (the 'country definitive' ones).

mdc · 08:53 PM

Originally posted by Fellow2000:
Would it be possible to get a download link for the march of spain and the penny one?

It looks like they are just images posted.

option click to download

Mediaman_12 · Apr 17, 2004, 08:01 PM

went mad (if you are really into icon making then the iconfactorys photoshop plugin is great) and did loads of UK stamps.

You may have to right click to download, I don't know how the server handles .icns files, or download all the icons in one stuffit file.

cold aspiration · Apr 17, 2004, 08:09 PM

whoa, I really like the dragon ones. Do these have little ridges too.

Originally posted by mdc:

option click to download

this option click download doesn't work

haha this stuff is cool

cold aspiration · Apr 17, 2004, 08:27 PM

is it possible to make one that is not a square, like this?

mdc · Apr 17, 2004, 09:10 PM

Originally posted by cold aspiration:
is it possible to make one that is not a square, like this?

that is what an irregular shaped mail icon will look like. if you want it, i will tidy it up and upload it for you.

cold aspiration · Apr 17, 2004, 11:24 PM

whoa that is awesome! That would be much appreciated

mdc · Apr 17, 2004, 11:32 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JudieKaren:

Originally posted by mdc:
Here's a good colorful Statue of Liberty: http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/po...jsp?CURSOR=262

Lovin' your work!

the usps link you gave me timed out. so i found this liberty one.

option click to download

JudieKaren · Apr 18, 2004, 01:54 AM

Originally posted by mdc:
the usps link you gave me timed out. so i found this liberty one.

option click to download

Super! That's the same one I was trying to give you a link to.

Thank You again, mdc!

Sakino · Apr 18, 2004, 02:39 AM

How do you change your mail icon? Sorry I am a noob at this?

JudieKaren · Apr 18, 2004, 04:05 AM

Originally posted by Sakino:
How do you change your mail icon? Sorry I am a noob at this?

Sakino

Go to: Applications>Mail, then click once on Mail to select/highlight it. Then *get Info* from either the File Menu or Command-I, or the contextual menu (right-click).

Do the same process with the new icon to *Get Info*. Click once on the new stamp icon and hit Command-C (or which ever way you choose to *copy*). Then click once on the Mail Icon in the Get Info box and hit Command-V (paste).

There will be a blue *halo* around the icon in the Get Info box when it is selected and ready to be copied or pasted.

No need to apoligize! No one knows all the tricks. We all learn something new everyday. The trick is remembering it all.

angelmb · Apr 18, 2004, 05:47 AM

Originally posted by cold aspiration:

this option click download doesn't work

You can get the March11 icon also here:

http://idisk.mac.com/super_mario/Public/icono11M.zip

note that 'icono' means 'icon' in spanish, not a typo.

mdc · Apr 18, 2004, 09:09 AM

Originally posted by cold aspiration:
whoa that is awesome! That would be much appreciated

here you go.

you know what to do.

Sakino · Apr 18, 2004, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by JudieKaren:

No need to apoligize! No one knows all the tricks. We all learn something new everyday. The trick is remembering it all.

Thanks I should have expected it to be that way, I know how to change icons. I just remember doing this in the past and having it not work, it would always go back to the default icon. We will see how it goes. Thanks

andretan · Apr 18, 2004, 12:59 PM

Damn sweet icons you have there!

Great job!

mdc · Apr 18, 2004, 01:01 PM

i have read, but not tested it, that if you get new mail and the new mail bade comes up it will revert to the original icon. if this is true. use the app.icns file in the archives and 'show package contents' on mail.app and go to the contents/resources folder and backup the app.icns and put the new one in.

Stuphalina · Apr 18, 2004, 01:20 PM

Yeah, for mail, you have to change the app.icns icon in order for it to stay. Simply changing the icon in the "get info" window will make it revert back when you get new mail and the red icon on the top of the dock icon appears.

JudieKaren · Apr 18, 2004, 01:49 PM

Originally posted by Stuphalina:
Yeah, for mail, you have to change the app.icns icon in order for it to stay. Simply changing the icon in the "get info" window will make it revert back when you get new mail and the red icon on the top of the dock icon appears.

hmmm�this has not been my experience.

I changed my Mail app. icon with *get info & copy/paste* the 1st day mdc started posting these cool stamp icons and it's working exactly like it does with the native icon. This on both of my iMacs using Panther 10.3.3.

Anyone else?

d4nth3m4n · Apr 18, 2004, 01:54 PM

Originally posted by JudieKaren:
hmmm�this has not been my experience. I changed my Mail app. icon with *get info & copy/paste* the 1st day mdc started posting these cool stamp icons and it's working exactly like it does with the native icon. This on both of my iMacs using Panther 10.3.3.

Anyone else?

im with judie on this one. just the old fashioned get info cut paste whatnot. i know what youre talking about with the app.icns thing, i had to do that with the system prefs icon...

Stuphalina · Apr 18, 2004, 02:15 PM

im with judie on this one. just the old fashioned get info cut paste whatnot. i know what youre talking about with the app.icns thing, i had to do that with the system prefs icon...

That's weird, b/c for me the cut and paste method worked for me for system prefs.

Mediaman_12 · Apr 18, 2004, 04:20 PM

Because the Mail dock icon is a complicated beast, the way it's updated with the 'new mail' badge the usual 'get info & paste' method doesn't replace the correct icon file (it will replace the Finder app icon but the one that appears in the Dock won't be changed). To replace the icon so the 'Dock badge's' still work you have to replace the app's app.icns file. this is located at "Mail/Contents/Resources/app.icns". The best thing to do is to rename the original then place the custom one in the same location, then rename the new one "app.icns". This way you won't loose the original Apple icon, incase you want to revert.