Mac OS X 10.7 Lion reverses a trend toward user interface complexity, delivering a desktop computing environment that not only incorporates graphical elements of iOS, but also copies the intuitive ...

Ever end up with a lot of Finder windows floating around your Mac screen? In previous versions of Mac OS X, the choice was to close them all with a keyboard shortcut, Option-Command-W, which will end ...

If there’s one thing PC users have the hardest time with when they use my Macbook Air, it’s the trackpad. What seems completely common and functional to me leaves them baffled and confused. “How do I ...

How does the Mac OS X Finder desktop work any different than the Windows Explorer desktop? On either system, clicking on the desktop will unfocus all windows and put the focus on the desktop. On both ...

Looks like Apple has some hidden tricks up its sleeve for OS X. A recent patent shows how the Mac OS X Finder may one day be able to display different-sized icons. So the bigger the icon, the more ...

Today marks the 15th anniversary of Apple releasing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which became available to purchase for $29 on August 28, 2009. After advertising Mac OS X Leopard as having "over 300 new ...

The main reason I'd like to see a Cocoa finder is so it can be improved faster. Cocoa is a key technology that should be leveraged in the key Mac OS X app, which is the finder.

Apple has officially ceased the sale of OS X Lion 10.7 and Mountain Lion 10.8 from its online store. The change was spotted by @ClassicII_MrMac on X, formerly Twitter. The original release of OS X ...

Apple’s macOS operating system has changed a lot over the last 25 years, with new features and designs coming and going as the decades have passed. Even the name has been adjusted, starting out as Mac ...

I use the MacOS Finder daily to manage my files and folders. It's an invaluable tool -- and one of the better file managers I use, but that doesn't mean Finder is configured ideally out of the box.