It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...

So, I finally bought 10.3 and it asks me if I want to format with a UNIX or the standard Mac file system. I've read lots about whether to use journaling or not (I will) but I hadn't heard about this ...

You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as CEO once ...

Amazon had a surprising announcement back in December when it revealed support for Mac instances on AWS. macOS Mojave and Catalina were the only supported operating systems at launch, and now the ...

Several readers have noticed the presence of an interesting .kext file located in the /System/Library/Extensions folder on currently shipping Intel-based Macs. The ...

Many times there will be odd names listed in the permissions field for files on their systems, and people have wondered about them and what they mean. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduces a new feature in the Finder named AirDrop, designed for easy file sharing between nearby systems. AirDrop has nothing in common with DropBox, a cloud-based file sharing ...

OS X may be retired, but it deserves to be remembered. Take a trip back with these 14 key milestones in the double-decade history of the operating system that helped transform a nearly bankrupt Apple ...

Here’s a quick trick that lets you open files in the application you want, even the app in question thinks it can’t understand that file type. This can be useful with some older word processing files, ...