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 ...

Ctrl click the icon, click "get info", then select the drive icon in the info window. Ctrl-x to "cut" the icon you have on there, and the original should pop back.