Category: Mac os x

Upgrading from OS X 10.5.8 to 10.6 You can up- grade from 10.5.8 to 10.6 by purchasing the installation DVD for $19.99 (w/ free shipping), then up- date 10.6 to 10.6.8, for free using the Apple Software Update application already installed on your i, and mac. How do I update a Mac OS X? I […]

The Terminal is an e xceptionally powerful tool, providing a command line interface to the underpinnings of OS X. It’s a topic we’ve covered at length before with our popular series Taming the Terminal. There’s a great deal that Terminal can do, from moving large numbers of files to changing preferences that we didn’t even […]

How to take a Mac Print Screen ( Screenshot) on OS X El Capitan: Open the item or area you’d like to take a screenshot of. Press Command + Shift + 4 and then release all keys. You will now see that your mouse cursor has turned into crosshairs that you can move around. Drag […]

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems— HFS+, FAT32, and e x . FAT, with read-only support for NTFS . It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as E xt3 for Linux systems are not readable, and NTFS can’t be written to. […]

According to Apple, these older OS X operating systems can be upgraded to El Capitan. If you’re running a version of Snow Leopard prior to version 10.6.8, you must upgrade to that version. After you upgrade, you can then upgrade to El Capitan by using the App Store online. , mac OS Mojave 10.14 can […]

I’d say OSX is about equal reliability to some of the worse Windows efforts (looking at you, Vista) and nowhere near as reliable as the best Windows XP, the server versions of the OS). I have enjoyed all of the answers below and do agree. Another thing we asked ourselves was is the Mac OS […]

Mac OS X has always been able to read NTFS drives, but tucked away in Mac OS X is a hidden option to enable write support to drives formatted as NTFS (NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows). Why can’t I read NTFS files on […]

This means if you have any version of OS X newer than 10.9 then you can upgrade it to the latest version for free. There are three ways you can upgrade. Download the Installer from Apple directly to the computer that you want to install the new OS X onto. Take your computer into the […]

Take Screenshot on Mac OS X Yosemite Set up the screen and make sure you know what you want to capture. On your keyboard, press Command + Shift + 4. As soon as you release the keys, your mouse cursor will turn into movable crosshairs. Now drag the cursor anywhere (and this will be one […]