The advent of the CrashReporter in Mac OS X was a boon for developers -- suddenly, a capsule of what caused the problem with a given application could be instantly captured by the end user and sent ...

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has two audiences: those who already own a Mac and are interested in upgrading their experience, and new buyers investigating a Mac purchase. This review series is designed ...

It appears one user posted the intro video for Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). The welcome video typically appears on first boot after installation of Mac OS X. The new video shows a spotlight moving ...

MacEdition’s Mark Dalrymple has posted a new “BOLTS” (Brave OS X: Learn Techy Stuff) feature in which he offers a hands-on tutorial covering the Terminal in Mac OS X. “Yet another Mac OS X command ...

Apple's latest update to Mac OS X includes a variety of visual changes—some functional, some purely decorative. While you can debate the utility of "skeuomorphic interfaces" while reading our lengthy ...

With Apple having seeded the Golden Master (GM) version of OS X Lion earlier today, users are finally getting a look at what the OS X Lion experience should be like in the shipping version. One staple ...

“Introduction to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X” has been published by the Apple Developer Connection (ADC). “Scripting is a powerful feature of Mac OS X and many scripting languages are built in, ...

Last year, in between writing Take Control books and Macworld articles, I managed to squeeze in another little project – writing the 900-page “Mac Security Bible,” published in January 2010 by Wiley.

Now that we’re only a month and a half away from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference – the same event where the current OS X version (10.8) was launched last year – we keep hearing more and ...

Apple's desktop operating system, macOS, has been the staple crop for its iMacs and MacBooks. Here we go back to where it all began in 2001 (when it was known as Mac OS X). On March 24, 2001, Apple ...