Password length: a follow-up To clarify yesterday's posting, the problem with the 8 character password limit is not that the limit exists but that the OS does not warn you of the limit and appears to ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

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 ...

Have you ever opened your Mac terminal and felt overwhelmed by its stark, utilitarian interface? While the default setup gets the job done, it often feels like stepping into a dimly lit workshop when ...