Keeping items organized within a Finder window is obviously useful and is a reason why Apple has made the Finder simple and straightforward with options to show items in lists, columns, and snapped to ...

Sometimes small, unexpected errors can cause the OS X Finder to display icons in odd ways. Here are some general steps on how to clear icon display problems. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will reportedly see support for the company's QuickLook technology extended from specialized preview windows to Finder icons themselves.

One cool thing you can do in the Finder is set any window to view as large, 512X512 icons. You can do this by clicking on the icon button in the top left of any Finder window, then dragging the ...

Apple has moved to a much more grey-and-white look with OS X Lion, but you don't have to take it lying down. Here's how to bring back Snow Leopard's colorful Finder icons in 10.7. Sure, this tweak won ...

Do you use icon view in the Finder? Do you often find yourself double clicking folders and using Get Info commands to find out more about the files in your Finder windows? Well, it turns out there’s a ...

Is there a utility to restore the picture preview icons of files in the Finder? Some annoying programs (like Preview) paste their own generic icons over the preview icons, and it's very tedious to get ...

You can use the macOS Finder's Copy command to copy and paste files. But here's how to use the same command to copy file icons into Preview. You've probably used the macOS Finder's popup contextual ...

Editor’s Note: What’s more iconic than icons? John Siracusa of Ars Technica weighs in with his four favorite Mac icons of all time. The icon for the Finder seems like a near-total failure: it’s just a ...