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 ...

Although it is often simplest to add a new user to a computer running Mac OS X using the built-in graphical interface, you may prefer to do so from a Terminal window, perhaps because you are ...

Mac: By default, Terminal always launches into your home directory. For the most part, that's all you really need, but for those occasions when you need to go to a specific folder it's a pain to get ...

Terminal has tons of great applications on the Mac. By accessing the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X, Terminal allows power users and newbies alike to do things with their Mac that may not be enabled ...

One common routine in the OS X Terminal is entering file paths to change directories among other options, and OS X provides several means for doing this. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid ...

Macs aren't known for their customization options, but there's a lot hiding under the hood if you're willing to dig into the Terminal. Here are some of our favorite hidden settings you can change with ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Terminal app can be daunting at first, but it’s really the best way to hack into your Mac’s configurations and preferences to customize things to work for you rather than against you. With the right ...

Ericom Software has released a Mac OS X version of PowerTerm Interconnect, the company’s terminal emulation product. PowerTerm InterConnect is an emulator for running legacy, host-based applications ...

Here’s an interesting new Mac app for you Terminal junkies looking for new shiny this morning. Cathode came out of beta a few weeks ago, and it’s an alternative Terminal app for OS X with lots of ...

There’s an application every Mac geek can’t live without: the Terminal. Developed with hardcore users in mind, the terminal is the best way to get things done “the hard way”, via text commands. Now, ...