These are the basic macOS Terminal commands to know for updating a Mac, forcing an unresponsive Mac to shut down, finding the differences between files easily and much more. Under the hood, macOS X ...

Mac commands can speed up everyday tasks, whether opening files instantly, hiding desktop clutter, keeping your Mac awake, testing internet speed, or renaming files in bulk. These fourteen commands ...

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 ...

Your Mac computer comes with an app called Terminal. It can be found under Applications, then select Utilities. This is how you can execute commands on your computer using the command line. Launch ...

Knowing a few key terminal commands to speed up your Mac can optimize your device in numerous ways. While taken individually, these Terminal tricks may not show drastic improvement in speed and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Terminal on your Mac can do some surprisingly useful things, such as check your internet’s speed, change which kinds of apps you see in the dock, and help you shut down your Mac at a scheduled time.