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 ...

MacOS has plenty of handy CLI tools ready to be used. Each of these tools is free and easily installed. I know what you're ...

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 ...

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 ...

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC) announced its complete line of Internet security and problem solving products designed for Mac OS X. According to Symantec, the product line will offer users new, ...

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

A few weeks ago I spoke up for ‘5 essential utilities for any Mac user‘, since then I’ve been contacted by readers who’ve suggested a few additional tools that could also improve your Mac life. I’ve ...

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 ...