Apple on Thursday gave us another sneak peek at what’s in store for the next major release of Mac OS X, dubbed Lion, due out this summer. Between the iOS-inspired features we saw in the first ...

Disk Utility ships with macOS and has been part of the operating system since its first release. Here's how to use it.

What, QWERTY not good enough for you? Fortunately, OS X supports all kinds of alternative keyboard layouts and character sets. Topher Kessler shows you how to use them, even from the login screen.

The Mac OS X Administration Basics Exam Cram is the essential study guide for the Mac OS X Administration Basics Exam (9L0-500). This exam is common to both the Apple Certified Technical ...

Mac OS X is a secure operating system in that it's multi-user and has limits on what some user accounts can do. If an account is setup as a basic user, that user can only hurt himself, not the ...

Apple Gets Back To Basics with Lion Great post by David Chartier at Macworld: iOS and Mac OS X are symbiotic entities. When designing iOS, Apple distilled the Mac down to something pocketable, but the ...

Computing Basic troubleshooting steps for a Mac that will not start properly While full system crashes that result in a nonfunctional system are relatively rare these days, they do periodically ...

My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 for their (and your) amusement If you want to appreciate the present, try living in the past for a few days.

In a nutshell, OS X's basic design allows key components (the operating system, the user accounts, and most applications) to be isolated from each other, primarily by way of the file structure.

In this edition of Mac 101, I'll take you through the basics of setting up your Time Machine backup to a local hard drive, explain the power of cloning apps, and tell you why off-site backups are ...