Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

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 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 ...

In a series of articles written by Yuval Kossovsky, manager of digital media systems for Hunter College’s Department of Film and Media Studies, Computerworld is following that City University of New ...

On the 20th anniversary of macOS, longtime PCMag contributor Edward Mendelson rhapsodizes about just what makes Apple's software so unique. Furthermore, it seems to have been getting everything right ...

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 ...

my beloved OS X (10.0.3) is starting to bog down, and it wasn't exactly peppy on my lombard/333 ... so i booted into single-user mode, ran fsck -y until i saw that the disk was OK.<P>it's still slower ...

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 ...

A new Mac malware threat has been discovered. The OSX/Crisis Trojan is an insidious clever threat. Mac users should take steps to defend against this new malware, and proactively defend against future ...

Installing OS 9.2.2 from the install disk for the computer gives me a version of the system that is obviously only classic-mode compatible--no networking, no TCP/IP, no audio ability whatsoever ...

It also doesn’t look like much has changed since it was introduced. Apple has redesigned almost every other corner of macOS over the past 18 years, but guest login feels frozen in time. That’s not a ...