The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you're migrating from Linux, you'll find many familiar commands work the way you expect. But power users often aren't ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Beneath the fancy operating system on your computer, there is another operating system. It doesn’t have all the glitter of Mac OS X or Windows 8 (or even Windows XP). For that matter, it doesn’t even ...

How to use the Installer command to deploy packages silently on macOS and OS X Your email has been sent Installing applications on macOS and OS X computers is easy to ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...