OS is great, but it has its gaps. These five utilities fill them, and I miss them every single time I use a Mac without them ...

Mac OS X 10.4.3 includes a fairly significant update to Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities). First, the new release can verify your computer's ...

New version of Disk Utility can fix "overlapped extent allocation" errors As noted in Knowledge Base article #25770, the version of Disk Utility (10.5.1) included with Mac OS X 10.4.2 can fixed ...

Developer Chad McQuinn has made several structural changes to his Mac OS X Utilities plug-in. It has now been divided into three separate plug-ins — each plug-ins functions use a prefix to avoid ...

5 MacOS command line tools I swear by over their GUI counterparts ...

What it is: A tool for accessing ‘fresh’ items on your Mac—recently used/saved documents/folders are placed in the Fresh Files zone, and user-defined files you deem ‘fresh’ can be dragged to the shelf ...

Appligent, a provider of E-paper solutions, is offering six PDF Utilities for Mac OS X — and all are free. “The utilities are all command line applications that can help the user retrieve various ...

The menu bar on a Mac tends to fill up with clutter and icons over time. Between system icons like Spotlight, the date and ...

Whether you’re preparing to sell, recycle, or repurpose a Mac, or you’re going through old hard drives and storage disks that ...

What it is: A hot-key manager, enabling you to define system-wide shortcuts for launching applications, opening folders, and performing other Mac actions. Why it’s good: For many Mac users, there ...