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 ...

Made the "jump" from 10.4.11 to 10.7.3 last night. First order of business was getting the Developer Tools on, so I could re-compile the CLI tools. Turns out Xcode 4.3 was just released a few days ago ...

Homebrew is a macOS package manager that lets users install and manage UNIX tools and 3rd party software. Here's how to get started. Unlike most UNIX/Linux-based systems, macOS doesn't provide a ...

macOS is a Unix-based operating system. As such, it gives you both a graphical and a command-line interface to interact with its various services and programs on your Mac. However, unlike Linux, which ...

Typing commands into a terminal may seem tedious, but with the right tools, the command line can be incredibly powerful. Here are our favorite command line tools that do awesome things you just can't ...