Mac OS X includes a great terminal editor, but among the handful of alternatives is one that easily rises above them all. iTerm2 is our pick for the best terminal emulator for Mac OS X thanks to its ...

If you’ve been using a Mac for any length of time, you know that it’s more than just a pretty point-and-click, window-and-icon interface. Beneath the surface of the operating system is an entire world ...

If you’re an advanced user of Mac OS X, it’s very likely that you know what Terminal.app is. If you’re not, the Terminal is an application included in every version of OS X into the Utilities folder ...

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

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 ...

Use the command sudo softwareupdate -l to list all available updates. This command will prompt you for your administrator password and then display the updates. Install All Available Updates: To ...

Even though you can't see them, invisible files are critical to the operation of your Mac. For example, Apple typically makes certain files invisible to reduce the chance that the files are ...

From time-to-time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS X methods -- pressing the keyboard eject key; using the Command-E keyboard combination; ...