Been meaning to add a touch of your own personality to the desktop? Creating your own icons from scratch is easier than you probably thought. Whether you ride the Photoshop bus or the GIMP train, ...

Update: Thanks to MacStories reader Thomas, I was able to remove the need to upload image assets to Dropbox. The shortcut is now much faster to run (takes about 5 seconds instead of 20) and doesn’t ...

Mac user Alex mounts a few different hard drives on his Mac, and wanted an easy way to tell them apart - so he made a custom icon for each. To do this yourself you need Icon Composer, which is ...

Customization, tinkering, and personalization have always been at the heart of what makes the Android operating system, Android. Most manufacturers ship their phones packaged with their custom Android ...

Themed Icons on Android are a throwback to the days of icon packs and sometimes chaotic customization. While they are fun and inviting, a lot of apps still don’t have a themed icons variant. This ...

When it comes to customizing your Android device, one of the most enticing options of all is to make your own icons. You can choose unique homemade graphics for each icon, or create a uniform scheme ...

With the ability to add custom widgets to iOS 14, a huge uptick in iPhone theming has taken place with such setups going viral on social media. I recently linked up with Thientam Bach, aka Surenix, a ...

It's a whole new mobile world ...

A new app called Mycons launched today and is tapping into the iOS 14 home screen customization trend by making it easier for anyone, including non-designers, to quickly create their own custom icons, ...

Icons have come a long way in the past decade, evolving from tiny, pixelated pictures into glossy, gorgeous artwork. Adding a custom icon to an application, document, or folder has evolved, too. You ...

Blogger Ian Hoar details a method for creating a custom icon for your website that will show up on iPhones when someone bookmarks your site. I made icons out of images I created for a couple of ...