If you receive an error message indicating that your Mac's firmware is out-of-date, and hence cannot accept installation of Mac OS X from a CD/DVD -- specifically ...

Apple's MacBook Air, iPhone and iPod may be all the rage, but the company's desktop computers are still relative rarities: although analysts' figures vary, Apple desktops certainly comprise less than ...

Apple rolled out OS X Lion this morning as well as several new Mac Mini and MacBook Air models. And they have a very cool new system recovery option: You can ...

The Mac OS X Lion operating system includes a recovery utility that you can use to reinstall the operating system if necessary. If you have a partitioned hard drive, you simply need to select the ...

Mac OS X uses user ID numbers -- not alphanumeric usernames -- to define user permissions. As such, it is a bad idea (from a security standpoint) to assign the same user ID to two different users, ...

Microsoft’s Virtual PC software has some new competition from Dublin, Ireland-based Lismore Software Systems Inc. Lismore on Tuesday announced the release of Guest PC 1.0, a new PC emulation software ...

Today, January 24 is the 38th annual Macintosh Computer Day, the day each year that honors the unveiling of the very first Macintosh. On Jan. 24, 1984, Apple unleashed the first personal computer to ...

Run Windows XP, Mac OS 9, Windows 11, Super Mario Bros. and more on your Mac. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Collecting old video game consoles and vintage computers is a fun hobby, but ...

Apple Computer Inc. released a massive security update, fixing 22 flaws in its Mac OS X operating system. Several flaws reported as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs remain unfixed, however, including ...