Of all the "under the hood" components of Mac OS X, my personal favorite is preferences files. Why? For starters, they are important. They potentially affect every application you use, from the Finder ...

The Preferences in Adobe Illustrator allow you to make changes that will fit your needs. There are default preferences that come with Illustrator; however, the user can make changes to the panel ...

Migration Assistant is a great tool if you want to transfer all your applications, settings, documents, and other files over, but if you want to start fresh it doesn't give you a lot to work with. Mac ...

Safari crashes on launch. Mail quits when you try to send a message. What to do? Most savvy Mac users will delete the application’s preferences file, which stores changes made to the program’s default ...

The plaintiffs claim new programs introduced by Uber and Lyft that prioritize female drivers discriminate against male ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. California Gov. Gavin Newsom now faces an ...

Opponents of affirmative action said Friday they had gathered enough signatures to make Washington state the next battleground in the racial-preference war. Initiative 200 would ban race and gender ...

Editor’s Note: This article, published in our August 2008 issue, includes information on .Mac, which will be replaced by MobileMe in early July. Any instructions may change significantly. Most people ...

You may have an issue where some tools don’t appear in the Tools panel, and some panels aren’t listed in the Windows menu. Here are some of the solutions that you may try. Note that these solutions ...

In this installment of our continuing series on preferences (.plist) files, we finally delve into the details of how to interpret and edit .plist files. I'll be primarily showing you how to do make ...