If you ever used the “classic” Mac OS (OS 9 or earlier), you likely remember Extensions Manager or its more advanced commercial alternative, Conflict Catcher. Both utilities let you enable or disable ...

New Zealand-based developer Mac OS X File Recovery has announced File Extractor 1.0, a file extraction utility for macOS computers. It extracts files that are hidden inside other files stored on a Mac ...

How to get AFP working: Mac OS X 10.4 no longer supports AFP over AppleTalk, use TCP/IP instead For the past few days we've been reporting on problems with AFP (Apple filesharing protocol) access ...

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Converting a CSV file to a PDF can be useful if you want to include your spreadsheet data as part of a presentation, or distribute figures to people who do not have access to a spreadsheet program.

MacFixIt reader Jason Titus has completed a comprehensive set of benchmarking and analysis of how well the various filesystems perform on Mac OS X. He used IOZone to benchmark HFS+ with and without ...

The open-source KDE desktop environment is making the jump across platforms with broad support for Windows and Mac OS X. The core KDE desktop programs, the KOffice suite, and the Amarok music player ...

It may have been a premeditated outburst or a sudden slip-of-the-lip, but either way Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is claiming that Apple next week will announce a plan to replace ...