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 ...

In old versions of OS X, you could simply drag any icon you wanted into the toolbar to add it. You can still do that, but as Macworld points out, you’ll need to ...

In addition to our recent coverage of illogical filename sorting in Mac OS X 10.2.x's Finder, there is also a problem with special characters, like !@#$%^&*()-_=+? (some of these characters may not ...

Apple’s relationship with the OS X Finder has been a funny one. Since 1984, the Finder has been how Mac users interact with their files, but it’s always been a bit too confusing for many users.

Mavericks’s Finder tags feature offers a number of benefits over the older file and folder labels, but one of the drawbacks of tags is that items are no longer colored with your preferred tag (nee ...

Moving files from one place to another seems like a relatively benign thing to do, but Mac users could find their data mysteriously disappearing if they're not careful. Tom Karpik, a computer science ...

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 ...

Expectation that Apple is set to announce Siri for the Mac at WWDC 2016 has intensified over the weekend, thanks to an apparently unprompted reference to OS X leaked by none other than the personal ...

Mac users jealous of the excellent Subversion support in the Windows-only app TortoiseSVN, need covet no longer. SCPlugin does for the Mac OS X Finder what TortoiseSVN does for Windows — provides easy ...

<B>consider</B> purchasing a Macintosh? <P>I'm looking for a well thought out, honest answer here. Personally, I'm torn because I like the software options I've got on the PC platform, but with the ...