Have you ever noticed the miniature icon that sits next to a window’s name in its title bar? It’s more than just a decoration. In many instances, you can work with this icon—known as the proxy ...

Power users already know about the magic of the proxy icon—the tiny icon that appears in the title bar of most windows. But Hints reader arti.66 found a unique benefit to the proxy icon in Apple Mail.

One of the least known and most useful shortcuts in the Mac toolbox has long been the capability to use a window’s proxy icon—the little icon next to the window’s title—as though it were any other ...

Proxy icons, or as Apple now calls them, “window title icons,” are tiny icons that sit next to the window title in Finder windows and windows from document-focused apps. Dragging the proxy icon to ...

Have you ever noticed that teensy icon that appears in some title bars? It's an OS X feature that shows up in many editing applications. You'll see it in TextEdit, iMovie, Preview, Microsoft Office, ...

The OS X Finder is an amazing thing, letting you create folder within folder, duplicate files, find your documents, and generally get stuff done. More and more, the Finder features are being ...

Many users aren’t aware of it, but the icon next to a file’s name in the title bar of Mac apps has special powers. Known as the proxy icon, the tiny glyph is directly linked to the file system, which ...