Welcome back to the annual installment of “The Worst Icon of the Year”. Unfortunately, the winner for 2007 seems to have changed its icon. I was choosing English4Fun as this year’s winner.
The icon of on MacUpdate is shown as below as of today.
But the downloaded app has a tab bit more berable icon.
After all, there’s no winner this year. Takaaki Kato will stay looking for worst icons throughout this year.
HandBrake is a DVD ripping utility for Mac OS X. It allows you to shrink the size of the DVD video while minimizing the loss the video quality. You can make mp4 and avi files including H.264 that Apple has been pushing hard. Subtitles are also supported. 2-pass encoding setting tries best to keep the quality of the video. Above all, it’s free.
So, nothing to complain? Well, the icon. The icon of the HandBrake isn’t nice-looking. See the pic below:
However, Model Concept offers alternative icons for HandBrake and HandBrake Lite. Lite version is dedicated for making the size of the video for 5th generation iPod. The icons are way coolder than the originals. Here’s the pic of the alternative icon.
Now, It’s more pleasurable to see HandBrake icon in the Dock while I’m ripping DVDs. You know, ripping DVD takes time. You need to be comfortable while you are waiting for HandBrakd to finish the task.
Download the replacement icons if you use HandBrake. There’s nothing to lose.
