While working on Mac meet Xbox part 3, I kept referring to the Transmit and Xbox duo, so I decided to combine the two into a stylish Xbox Edition icon replacement, which includes a paste-able icon, .png image, a replacement .icns file, and the source .psd. Download the set.

To replace Transmit’s yellow-and-purple truck icon with the “new and improved” one, locate it in your Applications folder (or wherever you may have it stored), Control-click it, and choose Show Package Contents. Browse to the Contents/Resources folder, and find Transmit.icns. This is the icon file for the application, so rename it to Transmit.bak for safe keeping in the event you would like to return to the default icon. Drop in the replacement icns file provided in the pack, and name it Transmit.icns. You may need to relaunch the Finder or log out/in to get the full effect, after which Transmit will sport the new Xbox delivery truck icon!

I decided to create an Icons category here at Command-Tab because I occasionally find myself making Mac OS X icons for various purposes, and thought others would be interested in using them and learning from the accompanying Photoshop files.

This first icon is one I made quite some time ago, during a game icon creation frenzy in the MacNN forums. I’ve since redone some of the graphics, cleaned it up a bit, and brought out the colors. You can download the zipped file pack, which includes a paste-able icon, a Mac OS X .icns file, a PNG image, and — most importantly — the source Photoshop .psd file.

This icon and any that follow are free for any personal use. If you intend to publish them in a collection or on the web, all I ask is that you give credit where it is due. Enjoy! I’ll have more to come in the near future.