When you click on that red and white envelope icon to access your email, you don’t think “this is an envelope, which means mail.” Instead, your brain jumps immediately to “Gmail.” Good icons like ...

Susan Kare designed pictorial symbols that enabled non-technical users to operate a computer, a great contrast to previous screens with “command line” interfaces that required knowing code. Photo of ...

When the computer sends out more than one beep, it usually means something is wrong at the hardware level. The computer may not beep or generate a series of beeps in a fixed pattern. Some are ...

"Flashing globe" at Mac OS X startup and its meaning We received an e-mail recently from a reader who was presented with a "flashing globe" at startup, disallowing the boot procedure to continue. If ...

In CapCut Desktop, icons represent various video editing tools for efficient workflow. Common symbols include “Media” for importing files, “Audio” for adding music, “Text” for subtitles, and “Effects” ...

Spotify has various icons and symbols for controls. The home page features search and library icons. Playlists let you save, download, shuffle, or search songs. The song screen includes playback, ...

Several Windows users at some point or another have experienced the problem of their Desktop icons rearranging or moving after reboot. If your Desktop icons keep jumping, bouncing, moving or ...