Because of its Unix heritage, Mac OS X is a true multi-user operating system from the ground up. Yet some people have used Mac OS X for many months without fully realizing what this means -- as the ...

We have posted the second installment of Ted Landau's guide to Inivisble Files in Mac OS X. An excerpt: "The most common methods that OS X uses to determine if a file or folder should be invisible of ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

When you double-click a file on your Mac, the operating system will automatically open the file using the program assigned to that type of file. It is possible, though, to open the file using another ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default program ...