Welcome to installment #13 of the Toymaster's Silver 3D Folder Collection. In this new segment you will find some great new folder icons provided by myself and some hard working America Online members. I wish to thank Xel1, Vaprok, Ted Slater, and Kevin Miller for their terrific submissions. I also want to note that 3 folders were derived from icons made by Mitch Gardiner (El Meshu), for Sonic and a neat looking fax machine (I had to make some changes to get it onto a folder though). Also included are three system folders for the new Apple machines (Quadra 800, Centris 610, and Color Classic). In all, there are 35 new folders and 2 updates in this upload representing new applications, games, utilities and a variety of subjects (also incorporating some of the new AOL icons). For those that wish to send requests, fill holes in applications that are not yet done, or send neat icons that you would like to have included in the Silver 3D set (they are for everyone after all), just E-mail me as the Toymaster on America Online). Now onto the standard fare...
The Silver 3D folder set is a collection of 642 folder icons designed to enhance your desktop and bring life to an otherwise bleak computer existence. My goal has been to obtain most of the important application, game, and utility icons that are currently available for the Mac and put them neatly onto folders. In this quest for a handsome desktop, I have also incorporated many generic folders that represent how many of us use our Macintoshs. In addition to many everyday subjects, you will find sports folders, corporate folders, university folders, and even folders of flags from other countries.
I have created these folders with two things in mind, to retain consistency and to make them available to both color and black and white Macintosh users with System 7. Each and every folder in the collection is consistent so that the graphics do not go outside the original folder boundaries (that means a neat and tidy, uniform look while having the best possible graphics style). I also have tried to optimize each folder in black and white, 4-bit color, and 8-bit color so all can enjoy them.
I have placed them in a folder format for ease of use. While all were developed in ResEdit, I have taken the initiative to make things easy for you to use by allowing a simple copy and paste from the Get Info box of the Silver3D folders to the folder of your choice in its Get Info box. It is not intended that you simply use the folder "as is", as the names may be different than the ones that you use. It could confuse your System and Finder by simply replacing your folder with these without making sure that the name for each folder is typed "exactly" as the folder it is replacing.
The folder transfer procedure should be as follows:
Select the Silver 3D folder you want to use by clicking on it. Go to the File menu and select "Get Info". Once the Silver 3D Get Info box is up, click on the folder icon so that a square box surrounds it. Then do a "Copy" command from the Edit menu (or a "Command-C" keystroke from the keyboard). Close the Silver 3D's Get Info box by clicking the small square box in the upper left part of the Get Info box. Now, select the folder you want to transfer the folder icon to, by clicking on it and selecting "Get Info" from the File menu. Once again, click on the folder icon in the box so a square surrounds it. Go to the Edit menu and select "Paste" (or a "Command-V" from the keyboard). The folder should update to the Silver 3D folder you wanted. Close the Get Info box by clicking in the square in the upper left hand corner and you are done.
Since this is an ongoing project, this collection will be updated and changed from time to time by new programs, interesting new topics, special requests, and upgraded icons from existing programs. I also want to thank those that have sent me icons in the past or have let me use some of their artwork. All I ask is that you keep this read me file with the archive if you redistribute the Silver3D folder collection to other users (so they know how to use them and realize that there are many more where this came from). Have fun, and enjoy customizing your Macintosh!
