OS X contains a number of hidden utilities that are generally accessed via System Preferences, but which can also be launched and used independently. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

Reader Ted Adams is particular about what is and isn’t in his Mac’s Applications folder. He writes: Is there any way to get rid of the applications I have no use for that are included with Lion? I ...

Apple's Recovery partition for OS X Lion contains a number of utilities, but you can only open one at a time. Here is how to open multiple utilities at the same time to ease your troubleshooting and ...

The other day my daughter was frustrated by her math homework. She was plotting x and y coordinates onto a grid, but a few of her answers just didn’t line up. I suggested that we check her work, and ...

Some users who updated their Macs to OS 10.9.3 yesterday are reporting that their Users folder has disappeared. Like the name suggests, the Users folder holds all of the folders for a given computer, ...