Restoring preference pane access Last week, we mentioned an Apple KB article that cited a problem where "Mac Help Cannot Open System Preferences Panes." In some cases, users may have trouble opening ...

Mac OS X ships with a lot of default system preference panes and I have about 30 of these on my MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion. There are an extra 11 preference panes that I’ve added by installing ...

A handful of MacFixIt readers reported that they are unable to access the "Displays" pane of System Preferences after updating to Mac OS X 10.3.8. One reader writes: "After having used 'Software ...

Sometimes OS X works in mysterious ways. Take, for instance, the matter of user preferences. In some cases, we get full control over the many things one can do with an application. TextEdit has about ...

A couple of weeks after its unveiling, the budget-priced Mac mini has begun shipping. Targeted at would-be switchers and ?adders,? the mini is easily the lowest-priced Mac desktop ever. There are ...

Similar in concept to group policies in Active Directory, Mac OS X Server’s managed preferences allow administrators to define virtually the entire user experience and restrict user access to many ...

One of the big selling points for Mac OS X Leopard is that it is a stable operating system that is not prone to crashes, freezes, corrupted or fragmented hard drives, viruses and spyware, or the ...

USB monitor support for Macs is nothing new. Last year, Display Link debuted driver software for Mac OS X, finally allowing Mac users to add monitors without having built-in video cards. This was a ...