Homebrew is the best source for open source software yet, and makes installation easy. Here's what Homebrew is, how it works, ...

There are two kinds of Mac users. The sad, harried folks who don’t know how to use this easy, essential, life-changing Command key trick. And the happy, efficient, relaxed people who learned it years ...

The free GitBrowser is for everyday use of version control on the Mac. Developers can easily work with repos, branches, and commits.

In Windows, typing cd by itself shows you the current working directory. On macOS, the pwd (print working directory) command serves the same purpose. It will display the full path of where you ...

Homebrew, the popular package manager for macOS and Linux, just released its big 5.0 update. The new version has faster downloads, improved hardware support, and an important security change for Mac ...

installer (.pkg) and get a very detailed view of what is about to be placed into your Mac's precious filesystem. To use lsbom, open up the Terminal.app and navigate to the place in your filesystem ...

TL;DR: Stop using your Mac like a fix-wheeled bike. MacPilot gives you access to 1,200+ buried features without touching the Terminal. It's available for $27.97 through November 20th with code UPDATE.

Today's Mac software nugget is a kernel extension named Double Command. Originally intended as a way for Powerbook users to remap the Enter key as a second Command key, Double Command evolved over ...

OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...

Just curious, for those of you who use ntp servers on your network, how do you instruct your Mac OS X clients to sync their time/date with the ntp server? <BR><BR>Example: You know you have a time ...

Maggie Appleton (via Michael Tsai) has written about one of the UI trends I’ve seen pop up more and more lately, and which we mentioned on AppStories several times over the past year: the so-called ...