TidBITS readers likely know that macOS is based on Unix and that opening the Terminal enables them to interact with files, folders, and apps at the command line. For the majority of Mac users, the ...

There are two kinds of Mac users. The sad, harried folks who don’t know how to use this easy, essential, life-changing Command key trick. And the happy, efficient, relaxed people who learned it years ...

A terminal is an application on Unix-based operating systems that provides a command-line interface (or CLI), so you can interact with the operating system’s shell and access/control its different ...

Homebrew is a package manager that many Mac users have come to rely on. Using the command-line brew program, you can install a huge range of software, ranging from other command-line tools to ...

Security researchers have found that attackers are using ChatGPT to trick Mac users into pasting a command line into ...

A package manager or package management system is a set of utilities that facilitate the process of installing, updating, and removing computer programs on an operating system. It is very prevalent ...

Your Mac can become sluggish due to various reasons such as insufficient RAM, disk space issues, and resource-hungry processes. However, there are several steps you can take to optimize your Mac's ...

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 ...