Audie Cornish talks with Austin Carr, design and technology writer at Fast Company, about Apple's use of skeuomorphic design. It's when an object retains the look of something old and familiar like ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Yes, you can customize your Mac’s hard disk icons in just a few steps in MacOS. Why use Apple’s boring default icons when you can use your own? If you find yourself a little bit bored with the default ...

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 ...

Do you want to see something that makes my blood boil every time I see it? Here, take a look: This is the icon that's on the Save button in Microsoft Word 2010. A floppy disk. Seriously? Did it fall ...

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A few days ago, I was preparing my laptop for some upcoming travels. I normally only use that particular machine when I am on the road, so it had been a few weeks since it had been used. Even so, it ...