Customizing your desktop icons isn't strictly a time waster. Take, for example, your most-used folders. Custom icons allow you to quickly identify those folders so you can quickly pick them out from ...

You can change folder icons on your Mac by copy-and-pasting an image into the folder's icon slot. You can use any image as a Mac folder icon, whether it be something unique or just a differently ...

MacOS has a pretty robust search function, allowing you to easily find your files in the Finder app. However, it can be ...

A new macOS Icon Pack website has emerged on the web with nearly 3,000 different icons from which to choose. There are icons for a wide variety of third-party apps, such as Adobe apps, Microsoft apps, ...

The Dock is one of the key tools for navigating the macOS interface. But there's more to it than you might realize. Let's ...

The age of wildly personalizing the look of macOS might be over, but customizing app icons is still fun, and the phenomenon is more popular than ever since the advent of Home Screen widgets and custom ...

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