New version of Disk Utility can fix "overlapped extent allocation" errors As noted in Knowledge Base article #25770, the version of Disk Utility (10.5.1) included with Mac OS X 10.4.2 can fixed ...

We previously noted several limitations of Mac OS X 10.3's Disk Utility, which is supposed to replicate much of the functionality present in Mac OS X 10.2's Disk Copy. Among the noted limitations are ...

What it is: A hot-key manager, enabling you to define system-wide shortcuts for launching applications, opening folders, and performing other Mac actions. Why it’s good: For many Mac users, there ...

Developer Chad McQuinn has made several structural changes to his Mac OS X Utilities plug-in. It has now been divided into three separate plug-ins — each plug-ins functions use a prefix to avoid ...

Whether you need to better organize your hard drive or resolve disk errors, Disk Utility is the tool for the job. Built into macOS, Disk Utility is tucked away in the Utilities folder, which is found ...

Sensei is a brand new Mac app that monitors the status of various components of your Mac’s hardware and provides a set of utilities to optimize its performance. The app is certainly not the first to ...

Every now and then there is an app or utility whose usefulness is so obvious that you immediately think it ought to be part of macOS. Folder Quick Look is a great example of this. It does one very ...

A few weeks ago I spoke up for ‘5 essential utilities for any Mac user‘, since then I’ve been contacted by readers who’ve suggested a few additional tools that could also improve your Mac life. I’ve ...

When you buy a new Macintosh, it comes pretty well equipped. It’s got an assortment of software already installed, including a top-notch browser (Safari), a fine instant-messaging program (iChat) and ...

UTM is an emulator for virtualizing other operating systems. Here's how to use it to run Apple's Mac OS 9 on a Mac running on Apple Silicon. UTM is an OS emulator that lets you virtualize and run a ...