Reader Gene Dybinski would like to lend his mother a hand. He writes: Last March I bought a new Power Mac G5, and almost immediately saw an article (on either this site or in the magazine) on how to ...

I know of at least one online How-to guide to do this(here).<P>But isn't there an easier way to do this? In the Public Beta, I remember you could copy & paste onto ...

A few weeks ago on the Accidental Tech Podcast, Casey reminded me that it’s possible to customize the icons shown for hard drives. I knew this, but hadn’t done it in a long time. John chided Casey for ...

Where are these stored? I plugged in a drive with the same name as my Time Machine drive and it changed the icon to the Time Machine icon. I want to change it back but all the instructions I find are ...

Apple hides some of its best features through obscurity, not intentionally. For many years, you have been able to select and change the icon for any file, folder, volume, or drive. But it’s a ...