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 ...

Apple's Liquid Glass software design language is bringing a new look to your Mac. Some of it you'll likely spot right away -- like the revamped menu bar, which will have a completely clear background.

When it comes to iOS 26, Liquid Glass and legibility have been the subject of much discussion around the iPhone software redesign. On the Mac, however, app icon decisions have stirred up a lot of ...

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 ...

It’s our own fault. We all asked Apple to dramatically change the look and feel of the iOS operating system, which, until yesterday, remained largely unchanged since the introduction of the original ...

For a machine the Mac has real personality. It’s one of the reasons we love it, even when it doesn’t do what we want it to. It said “Hello” to everyone when first unveiled by Steve Jobs in 1984. If it ...

Panic Inc. and icon mavens The Iconfactory have collaborated together to create CandyBar, a new utility to enable Mac OS X users to customize the icons on their toolbar, used for folders, and the ...

Am I destined to stare at the standard 3.5"HDD icon in Mac OS for my windows boot disk for ever? I can't figure out how to edit that icon; guessing it has to do with the volume being NTFS? I can ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...