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Tips and Techniques
There's lots of cool stuff you can do with icons and documents.
On the Desktop
Consider selecting a given set or style to represent work you're doing.
Use different icons for each drive or volume; or use one icon for local volumes and other for networked volumes.
Use icons representing the contents of a document; for example, one person uses the bomb icon on any document representing a problem or dispute.
Use icons representing key themes (i.e., party icons for recreation, more serious icons for business)
In Applications
Icons are ideal for large and small bullet-lists.
If you're in a text-based document with fonts of 14pt or less, consider using the small icons.
If you're in a presentation or a multimedia project, consider using the larger icons.
You can scale up the icons (making things big and chunky) for special accents or end-of-section displays.
You can use scaled up icons with reduced contrast (using something like PhotoShop) to provide a Mac-like background texture.
Icons make spectacularly effective buttons in multimedia presentations.