To enable ROOT access. Open NetInfo Manager and go to USERS then select ROOT. Highlight the single * that is used for the password - delete it and leave it blank. Now save that and log out. When you ...

If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Mac OS X Lion recovery partition. Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion adds support for a recovery partition as part of the OS installation and while this may not seem important to most users — it is. Apple is ...

One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

Apple announced OS X Yosemite at its Worldwide Developers conference Monday, and among other features, the new version is ushering in the single biggest visual change to OS X in, well, ever. OS X’s ...

I have a 60GBHDD that I am using to upgrade my laptop.<BR><BR>I understand the theory of virtual partitioning to<BR>- save defrag time<BR>- save data if you need to reinstall<BR><BR>But where is best ...

As most OS X users are probably aware "virtual memory" (or paging, in OS X's case) is always "on," as is the case with any modern operating system. It is an integral part of the kernel's functionality ...

Apple’s new MacBook Air models don’t ship with OS X Lion on a USB thumb drive like they used to. That diminutive little white wedge of flash storage is gone, no where to be found inside of the box ...

Last week we posted directions for reverting from OS X Lion to Snow Leopard. Certainly, we don’t condone it: We love Lion (you can read all about it in our OS X Lion review), but that doesn’t change ...

Savvy IT pros have been tinkering with mainframe partitioning for years. But with the sudden proliferation of single-task servers, especially for the Internet, partitioning big iron to consolidate ...