It gives my Mac a taste of the simplicity that makes Linux package management so appealing, which makes my daily work smoother. Homebrew’s repositories are huge, covering everything from developer ...

installer (.pkg) and get a very detailed view of what is about to be placed into your Mac's precious filesystem. To use lsbom, open up the Terminal.app and navigate to the place in your filesystem ...

Remove a specific file from the Mac Trash via the command line Here’s how you can use the command line to forcibly remove a specific file stuck in your Mac’s Trash. 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type ...

Just curious, for those of you who use ntp servers on your network, how do you instruct your Mac OS X clients to sync their time/date with the ntp server? <BR><BR>Example: You know you have a time ...

Maggie Appleton (via Michael Tsai) has written about one of the UI trends I’ve seen pop up more and more lately, and which we mentioned on AppStories several times over the past year: the so-called ...