I'm a bit confuzeled as to the specifics of the Mac OS ROM file in OS 9. It is my understanding that prior to 9 (or maybe earlier) the ROM on the chip was no longer used by the OS, but rather it uses ...

Ever since the release of Mac OS X 10.4.9, users have been reporting problems with file sharing between Mac OS X and its immediate predecessor. This is inconvenient because it is, strange as it may ...

October 23, 1999: Apple releases Mac OS 9, the last version of the classic Mac operating system before the company will make the leap to OS X a couple years later. It does not veer far from OS 8 in ...

When Steve Jobs first showed a preview of Mission Control, critics said it was a confusing mess. It brings together the Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces in one view, offering what Apple calls a “bird’s ...

Several readers have noticed the presence of an interesting .kext file located in the /System/Library/Extensions folder on currently shipping Intel-based Macs. The ...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduces a new feature in the Finder named AirDrop, designed for easy file sharing between nearby systems. AirDrop has nothing in common with DropBox, a cloud-based file sharing ...

Many functions in Mac OS X are only exposed to the user via System Preferences, so as you might guess, a lot of new things in Leopard show up there. Among them are a few of the "secret new features" ...