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     MacProNews - Restoring The Dock "Spring Icon" URL Shortcut 
                          June 11, 2007
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The New Touch Screen Experience
Dave Taylor | Expert Author

Where do I find the @ sign on a spring Icon. It was at the bottom 
right of the dock. It took me to the Mac OS X website.I deleted it 
and would like to restore it to the dock..

This proved quite a bit tougher than I expected, actually, but I 
have an answer for you. First off, here's the icon you're talking 
about:

For those of you that don't know, it's a pretty icon for a basic 
piece of Mac OS X functionality: a URL shortcut in your Dock (the 
equivalent of the Windows Start Bar). Let me show you where the 
icon is located in Mac OS X, then I'll show you how to create a 
shortcut and apply that icon.

The fastest way I know to find the icon is to simply copy and paste 
the following bold text into Terminal.app, an application you can 
find in Applications -> Utilities on your Mac:

    $ open /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/
    Contents/Resources/url.png

What it will do is open up the spring icon in the Preview 
application. That's the icon you seek. Now, to use it...

In Safari, go to a page you want to bookmark - perhaps the 
AskDaveTaylor home page -- and drag the little icon out of the 
Address Bar (or the tab for the page if you're in multi-tab mode) 
onto the desktop. In process it'll look like this:

.....................................................................

Free Click Fraud White Paper and Personalized Demo

Zero Tolerance for Click Fraud - This report reveals PPC ads that 
are victims of click fraud. Use web analytics to determine the 
source of problems.

 >>> Read the Whitepaper then Try the Free ClickTracks Demo to 
detect click fraud

http://aj.600z.com/aj/29349/0/cc?z=1&b=29022&c=29347

.....................................................................

and when you drop it, it'll convert into this:

Almost there. Now we just need to change the icon, which can be 
done by going back into Preview and choosing Edit -> Copy, then 
going to the desktop shortcut, clicking it once, then choosing 
File -> Get Info. You'll see this:

Now click on the icon in the top left of the Get Info window and, 
oh so subtly, you'll see it get a small highlight. That means it's 
selected. Choose Edit -> Paste and it'll change to the spring icon, 
both in the Get Info box and on the desktop. Hurray!

That's all the hard work. Now just drag it onto the Dock itself and 
drop it where you'd prefer:

Caveat: It's not exactly right because we lost the transparent 
background of the spring icon (in fact you probably need to use an 
icon editor to copy and paste the PNG image while retaining the 
transparency. I'm sure something like GraphicConverter could do it). 
Nonetheless, that should be 98% of what you seek and I'll leave the 
nuances up to the reader. : - ) 

To view the article images, go here:
http://www.MacProNews.com/text/Restore.html

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About the Author:
Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is 
internationally known as an expert on both business and technology 
issues. Holder of an MSEd and MBA, author of twenty books and 
founder of four startups, he also runs a strategic marketing company 
and consults with firms seeking the best approach to working with 
weblogs and social networks. Dave is an award-winning speaker and 
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

AskDaveTaylor.com
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