I think the most common question I’m asked by Tech Tails readers is “How do you get those giant, high-resolution icons next to your articles?”.
It’s easy! Select the icon in question in the Finder, then select Get Info from the file menu. On the top-left of the Info window is a picture of the icon. Click it once, then select Copy from the Edit menu. Next, open Preview from your Applications folder, and then select New from the File menu.
In the new window will be the icon in several different sizes ranging from huge to tiny. Next, select Save As from the File Menu, name the file, and append it with .icns. This is the file extension for icons. You can also use jpg, tiff, png–whatever you prefer. I cringe every time I see a blurry, pixellated icon because it’s so easy to harvest the big version!