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Desktop Fun: Sci-Fi Icon Packs Series 1
Are you a sci-fi fan who has been looking for some great custom icons for your desktop or favorite app launcher? Then you will want to have a look through our sci-fi icon packs collection.
Over the past few months we have been showing you collections of cool desktop wallpapers that you can use to liven up your computer. Today we extend the customization collections with a series of cool icon packs for you to use for folders and shortcut icons.
An Example Desktop
For an example of how these might look on your desktop we set up an example using icons from the Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3 sets shown below.
Note: Wallpaper can be found here.
A closer look at the icons for our example desktop…
Star Wars 1.0
Star Wars the Icons
Star Wars Vehicles
Star Wars Icons
Star Trek
Trek Tech
Note: Contains “.png files�� for use in Linux.
Refresh Trek
Star Trek Folders
Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1
Battlestar Galactica Vol. 2
Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3
Battlestar Galactica Vol. 4
Baby Spaceships
Space: 1999
War of the Worlds
Conclusion
Now that you have some of these cool icons downloaded be sure to check out our tutorial on how to customize your icons in Vista and Windows 7. If you are still using XP check out our article on customizing icons in Windows XP.
Also, make certain to stop by and visit our new Desktop Fun section for more customization goodness!
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Comments (8)
Akemi Iwaya (Asian Angel) is our very own Firefox Fangirl who enjoys working with multiple browsers and loves 'old school' role-playing games. Visit her on Twitter and Google+.
- Published 03/27/10
Love these! xD
All of the iconfactory.com links are broken, for great sad. :(
@DramaturgCA – I just tried a random assortment of the links and they were all working without any problems here…so I am not certain why they are not working there for you. :(
What about Metroid?
Thanks a lot! Been looking for something like this for awhile now.
Star Trek Icons For FREE>>>>Horray who says surfing isn’t good!!!
I’m imesprsed! You’ve managed the almost impossible.
Could you update with pointers as well? maybe animated ones too. what about animated folders? you know when you hover over them before you click it does an animation? would be some awesome space icons and pointers if they were animated. just an idea =P