Want to change the names of our computers, but how ?

over the last few months, we've renewed our set-up, and got things networked together - for the first time, so there was a learning curve ! Actually, it wasn't so bad ... the various ins & outs of permissions being now the main cause of occasional falterings. Anyway, being now got on top of it all (well, almost), we'd like to go back & change the names of our various devices - SWMBO's taken over my iPod Touch, for example, and the iMac seems to have renamed itself somehow along the way, so it now has the name we gave it but with the number 2 in parentheses at the end (goodness knows how that happened) ... only, for the life of me, I can't see / find-out how to do it ... it's probably very easy to do, it's probably that I can't see for looking ... but, any ideas, please ?
Message was edited by: Christopher John Hunter

No worries.
For the iPhone/Touch, connect the device to your Mac. You should see it listed in the iTunes sidebar. Click on the name twice, and you should be able to rename it in exactly the same way as you can rename a file or folder in Finder.

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