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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first official public version of Mac OS X was launched by Apple on March 24, 2001. It wasn't a success at first, but it powered the Mac through the next 19 years until macOS Big Sur. The fact that ...