Easily Spice Up Stacks with Stacks In Da Place

A while back, a set of “drawers” icons spread like wildfire across the internet. The icons, which were meant to make stacks in Leopard’s dock more attractive, looked pretty nifty, but getting them to work properly involved Terminal use and some other tinkering. However, with “Stacks in Da Place” from MacXeagle, getting your stacks looking nice and organized is even easier.

Upon opening, Stacks In Da Place automatically detects your currently set up stacks and shows you the default icon. Adding an icon (such as one of the various “Drawer” icons) is as simple as dragging and dropping. (You can find the “Drawers” here)

After a few seconds, your Dock should restart and your stack should now be enclosed by a new icon. This creates a much cleaner look, and adds a cool visual effect to the whole idea of stacks.

Should you decide that you don’t like your stack icon, removing it is as simple as clicking on the stack from the left panel and choosing “Delete Icon”.

This app is really very simple, but it does its job well. Stacks In Da Place is a free download from MacXeagle.

Comments

15 Responses to “Easily Spice Up Stacks with Stacks In Da Place”

  1. Simon on August 30th, 2008 6:48 am

    Not working over here, all I’m getting when I press “Apply Icon” is the default Leopard folder icon in front of my stacks.

  2. Matt J on August 30th, 2008 7:20 am

    Doesn’t work.

  3. yavery on August 30th, 2008 7:28 am

    Works but it creates a file (the icon file) in each of the folders I assign a custom icon to (Downloads, Documents, Applications) … Bummer!

  4. David on August 30th, 2008 9:40 am

    This doesnt work for me. It creates a default leopard icon in each folder you apply a custom stack icon to, but that’s it- has no effect on the stack itself… and, by doing it this way (assuming it actually worked) you would have an annoying new ‘non file’ in each of your stacks…. totally crap way of doing this.

  5. Jake on August 30th, 2008 11:43 am

    Using the original Stacks icons did NOT involve terminal commands…

    I’m sure there probably were terminal commands you could use to make the stacks even niftier… but i never have and i use the plain icons still…

    All you have to do is rename the icon as ” iconname” (note that there is a space as the first character of the name. This way the icon shows up first alphabetically.) Then add the icon to your stacks folder and you’re all set.

    This sounds like an application that merely moves the file for you in case you don’t know how to move files to new folders all on your own…. which…… is kinda dumb….

  6. Harry on August 30th, 2008 1:15 pm

    Doesn’t seem to work then crashed, nice

  7. Jonathan on August 30th, 2008 4:06 pm

    Crashed here, too. Deleted this immediately.

  8. steveballmer on September 1st, 2008 12:37 am

    Wh do all of you people’s icons look like toys?

  9. dex on September 1st, 2008 4:37 am

    Doesn’t work properly, than crashes. Amazing piece of sh.. . These kinds of apps should exist only for Windows.

  10. Chriswan on September 1st, 2008 11:37 am

    The website said that it is a discontinued software

    “Stacks In Da Place is no longer available because “it sux”.
    The Download still work, but you’ll have to find it on other websites like MacUpdate.
    Thanks for your attention”

  11. Rob on September 1st, 2008 2:49 pm

    Apparently, the developers aren’t the most mature group of guys either. Anyone who uses “sux” on a professional or semi-professional site isn’t, well, professional.

    Didn’t even bother searching out the app after seeing their website, but after reading about how much trouble you all have had, I’m glad I didn’t.

  12. Rees Maxwell on September 3rd, 2008 5:34 pm

    Hey Jacob Schulman … might be a good time to chime in here and comment on this.

    It’s starting to make it seem like you don’t know what you’re talking about when no one can install it and the devs say it “sux.”

  13. Jonathan on October 15th, 2008 12:32 am

    Hey, I’m gonna try and find the link that I used to change the stacks icons on my MacBook Pro. I’ll search it out at work tomorrow and post it here. It worked perfectly. It entailed loading a script and configuring folder actions.

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