Finder slowness may be Spotlight related We continue to report on dramatically slower Finder navigation and window refresh speeds under Mac OS X 10.4.5 -- an issue with a variety of causes and ...

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 ...

In addition to our recent coverage of illogical filename sorting in Mac OS X 10.2.x's Finder, there is also a problem with special characters, like !@#$%^&*()-_=+? (some of these characters may not ...

Descriptions of several features and interfaces not present in shipping versions of Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system have recently turned up in company patent filings, AppleInsider has ...

Reminders are delightful thing. Apple’s implementation syncs across the Mac to iPhones and iPads, and if you log in to iCloud.com, you can share Reminders with friends, family, co-workers, and the ...

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 ...

<B>consider</B> purchasing a Macintosh? <P>I'm looking for a well thought out, honest answer here. Personally, I'm torn because I like the software options I've got on the PC platform, but with the ...

In the new Finder, Apple is trying to imitate the worst "feature" of Windows Explorer: Finder windows no longer remember their individual view settings by default. This is a disaster for whomever is ...

Mac users jealous of the excellent Subversion support in the Windows-only app TortoiseSVN, need covet no longer. SCPlugin does for the Mac OS X Finder what TortoiseSVN does for Windows — provides easy ...

Moving files from one place to another seems like a relatively benign thing to do, but Mac users could find their data mysteriously disappearing if they're not careful. Tom Karpik, a computer science ...

Apple on Friday released Mac OS X v10.4.8 and Mac OS X Server v10.4.8. Both updates are available for download in various forms both from the Software Update control panel and from Apple’s Web site.

Editor’s Note: Apple made a clean break from the classic Mac OS in 2001 when it introduced Mac OS X. The operating system switchover was not without its bumps, but few would argue that Apple’s move to ...