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 ...

In order to share files on a network in the past "classic" Mac operating system, you had to access and set up items in several locations. First, you needed to enable file sharing in one location, then ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

The robot text file, better known as robots.txt, is a long-running Web standard which helps prevent Google and other search engines from accessing parts of your site. Why would you want to block ...

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to create a stunning, Saturn-like planet that casts a deep shadow onto its surrounding ...

Photoshop CC 2015 tutorial in 2 parts showing how to create a powerful movie poster for Star Wars: Episode 7 – The Force ...

When Disk Probe initially loads, it's not set to look at any files or partitions, so you'll have to tell the program which file, disk, or partition you want to work with. Let's begin by examining a ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default program ...

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 ...

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