Mac OS X includes a great terminal editor, but among the handful of alternatives is one that easily rises above them all. iTerm2 is our pick for the best terminal emulator for Mac OS X thanks to its ...

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 ...

If you use the Terminal regularly, because it is basically a window under the hood of OS X you may find yourself focused on the active shell and overlooking a number of the features the Terminal ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

Mac: By default, Terminal always launches into your home directory. For the most part, that's all you really need, but for those occasions when you need to go to a specific folder it's a pain to get ...

User permissions on the Mac OS X operating system determine whether a user can perform certain operations, like changing sensitive settings or installing new programs. Setting a user as an ...

Here’s an interesting new Mac app for you Terminal junkies looking for new shiny this morning. Cathode came out of beta a few weeks ago, and it’s an alternative Terminal app for OS X with lots of ...

Today’s hint is for those of you who, like me, use Terminal often and occasionally have a need to do things there as the root user. If you don’t know what Terminal is, don’t know what the root user is ...

To start downloading torrents from the Terminal, you need to install Transmission CLI. This process is straightforward if you have the Homebrew package manager installed on your Mac. Homebrew will ...

If you’ve left your Mac lying around for a very long time or if you bought a used one, the system date may be out of whack. Often the system date on neglected Macs gets reset to the year 2001, which ...