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"Icon" is a term for a small graphical image used to identify an application or a function within the application. Icons often can be clicked upon by the mouse to launch an application or invoke a command.

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Is it big deal to use some icons borrowed from other app in the App Store?

Often developers will purchase icon sets from icon factories like iconarchive.com (link omitted on purpose). … You can find free and paid-for icon sets out there. The developer might be forthcoming if they purchased their icons from a factory. …
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How can I make files invisible from to the shell?

Not really. What you seek isn't something shells try to support. Shells are really about open access to a system, not hidden access. Some shell commands and functions will ignore directories and file …
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Why are some icons sideways on my desktop?

It's not that the icon is sideways, it's that the small thumbnail for the file that's used as the icon needs to be wide because the CSV file has at least one really long line of data in it. … Here is how the thumbnail icon evolved as the file contents changed: For all of these snaps I just changed the length of the text on the one line in the file via TextMate and save the file, viewed …
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