OS X’s Help menu is fantastic, if underrated. It even lets you find menu commands by highlighting them when you search within the Help search field. If you hit enter after typing in a search term, ...

If you use the Terminal regularly, because it is basically a window under the hood of OS X you may find yourself focused on the active shell and overlooking a number of the features the Terminal ...

The command-line interface of your Mac lets you get into the Unix underpinning that makes Macs so powerful. Learn the top commands everyone should know to be a Mac power user. These are the basic ...

I saw this tip over at OS X Daily today, and it reminded me of all the times I did this as a Mac IT guy a couple of jobs back. See, every so often, the Macs where I worked would start to act weird.

Apple crippling command line functions Mac OS X 10.2.2? A Tenon Intersystems Engineer told MacFixIt that Apple has inexplicably removed a valuable feature (for some users), in Mac OS X 10.2.2 - the ...

Every Mac user should know how—and when—to turn to the Terminal. And he or she should also know how to shut down a truly recalcitrant app or a stubbornly frozen Mac. lsof lists all open files and the ...