Energy Saver preferences not remembered We've confirmed, in-house, a bug that causes Energy Saver to forget scheduled shutdown and startup times if authentication is used to preserve the settings.

The Mac has come a long way from the original Macintosh. Once housed in retro beige plastic, current incarnations are clad in smooth, sandblasted aluminum. It was the computer that popularized both ...

Mac OS X ships with a lot of default system preference panes and I have about 30 of these on my MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion. There are an extra 11 preference panes that I’ve added by installing ...

If you have installed a color printer, Mac OS X Snow Leopard's default printing preset prints all of your color documents in color. When you print from a program, you can change the print preferences ...

Resetting the PMU for FireWire 400 problems We are now hearing reports that a workaround we previously noted for fixing non-functional FireWire ports under Mac OS X 10.2.4 may also be applicable for ...

Open Directory, Mac OS X’s native directory service, allows users to both manage local accounts and to create shared directory domains hosted by Mac OS X Server. With shared directory domains, ...

One of my favorite improvements that shipped with Mac OS X Lion is Mail 5.0 and its new Conversations view. This new view allows you to view message threads by combining messages into a chronological ...

There are a lot of hidden files and folders in macOS, which you can still access if you know the method. Here's how to see the invisible files. There's a lot of additional functionality beyond basic ...

Apple has spent the last decade building and improving Mac OS X, fusing the classic Mac OS and technology acquired from Steve Jobs’s Next into an impressive mainstream operating system that’s widely ...