When problems materialize in conjunction with an incremental update to Mac OS X, and all known workarounds have failed, or a critical issue appears that must be resolved immediately, it may be ...

Ten years ago Apple bestowed a new operating system unto the world, Mac OS X. A merger of NeXTStep and the Classic Mac OS, OS X finally delivered Apple’s first major evolution in OS design after a ...

Fix for some AirPort disconnects Users continue to report problems with AirPort -- particularly random disconnects -- under Mac OS X 10.5.2. Now some users have found that changing their AirPort ...

Directory services are a critical component of any enterprise environment. These services provide a database for central account management for both user and computer, as well as a framework for ...

A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

Has it really been that long? 24 March 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X. For those of us who were there to witness its release, it’s stunning to think that most of today’s Apple users ...

Brady Snyder is a technology journalist that has written about mobile devices and computers for multiple publications over the last two years. He graduated from St. John's University in 2023 with a ...

The fortunes of the Mac platform drastically changed 10 years ago, with the release of a simple CD. On Sept. 13, 2000, Apple released its Mac OS X Public Beta, a limited-time trial run of the ...

The release of Mac OS X Lion culminates a decade-long software development process. Back in 2001 Apple introduced a new (and long awaited) replacement to the Classic Macintosh System Software, Mac OS ...

The first official public version of Mac OS X launched by Apple on March 24, 2001 wasn't a success at first, but it powered the Mac through the next 19 years until macOS Big Sur came out with Apple ...