Here’s how you can change the size of your OS X desktop icons, and adjust their spacing. This can help free up space on your Mac’s desktop. 1. Click anywhere on the desktop. 2. Hit Command-J to bring ...

Given the plethora of other Mac news likely to appear Tuesday, this Mac OS X Hint is short, sweet, and to the point. As you know—I hope—OS X allows you to move the dock to any edge of the screen you ...

If you decide you no longer want the Trash icon on your desktop, you can remove it by dragging the Trash folder to the actual Trash icon in the Dock. This will delete the symbolic link and remove the ...

If you’re running Leopard, hit Command + Shift + 4 and then the space bar, and you’ll see an icon of a camera that harks back to Steve Jobs’s days at NeXT. The decades-old icon is one of the last ...

You can “retrofy” your Mac with a new icon and dynamic wallpaper set featuring 166 Mac OS ’84 inspired icons. The original Apple Macintosh rolled off the production line in January 1984. It was the ...

There are times when you just need to clear off the icons on your Desktop, like when you’re giving an important presentation at work. No one wants to see all the images you’ve saved from the internet, ...

How out of control is your Mac desktop? Can you see the carefully chosen wallpaper image in the background, or is it obscured by files, folders, aliases and DMG files for applications you have ...

It's not just major applications that are getting updates in Mac OS X Leopard. Apple has updated and expanded the Desktop, Spotlight, and Dashboard, adding new features, graphical flourishes, and new ...