Mac OS X includes a great terminal editor, but among the handful of alternatives is one that easily rises above them all. iTerm2 is our pick for the best terminal emulator for Mac OS X thanks to its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yes, I’m aware of the irony of a publication called PCWorld covering a piece of Mac software, but this one was too fun to resist. Cathode is a new app that lets you access Mac OS X’s Unix-based ...

To start downloading torrents from the Terminal, you need to install Transmission CLI. This process is straightforward if you have the Homebrew package manager installed on your Mac. Homebrew will ...

Any files that start with a period on a Mac are considered hidden files in the Mac OS and are not visible from within the Finder. You can see these hidden files from within the Terminal utility by ...

If you’ve left your Mac lying around for a very long time or if you bought a used one, the system date may be out of whack. Often the system date on neglected Macs gets reset to the year 2001, which ...