Although it is often simplest to add a new user to a computer running Mac OS X using the built-in graphical interface, you may prefer to do so from a Terminal window, perhaps because you are ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The old ways of computing aren’t gone yet. The old ways of computing aren’t gone yet. With each operating system ...

The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you're migrating from Linux, you'll find many familiar commands work the way you expect. But power users often aren't ...

If you use the Terminal regularly, because it is basically a window under the hood of OS X you may find yourself focused on the active shell and overlooking a number of the features the Terminal ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Mac: By default, Terminal always launches into your home directory. For the most part, that's all you really need, but for those occasions when you need to go to a specific folder it's a pain to get ...

Terminal has tons of great applications on the Mac. By accessing the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X, Terminal allows power users and newbies alike to do things with their Mac that may not be enabled ...

Today’s hint is for those of you who, like me, use Terminal often and occasionally have a need to do things there as the root user. If you don’t know what Terminal is, don’t know what the root user is ...

There’s an application every Mac geek can’t live without: the Terminal. Developed with hardcore users in mind, the terminal is the best way to get things done “the hard way”, via text commands. Now, ...

If you’ve left your Mac lying around for a very long time or if you bought a used one, the system date may be out of whack. Often the system date on neglected Macs gets reset to the year 2001, which ...