Yosemite changes the look and feel of your Mac, from ever-so-transparent windows to a completely new Spotlight interface. But what hasn’t changed is how you get it—following in the footsteps of ...

If you have a spare hard drive lying around, you could use the existing recovery partition to install the OS on to that, even if just temporarily. If you have a friend with a Mac, he could download ...

The new OS X El Capitan features a new Split View, features in Safari, Mail, Notes, Maps, and Photos, and more. To get your hands on all this new stuff, you have to install the operating system on ...

Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now ...

We routinely recommend that users re-apply the most recent Mac OS X combo updater (available from Apple's software download page) when significant issues arise after applying a major system update.

For various reasons, applications originally installed by the Mac OS X Installer disc (DVD or CD) -- Mail.app, Activity Viewer, etc. -- can become unusable. This can occur due to user deletion, ...

Newbies to the Mac, especially those finding boxes of older Mac OS X discs in garage sales, flea markets and on eBay, may believe they can install the software on their Mac. Unless that software ...

Earlier this month, on the wildly inappropriate date of February 14, the Apple Worldwide Developer Intermediate Certificate expired. In Cupertino’s case, this can have an adverse impact on Apple ...

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Mac OS X Server’s NetBoot process allows Macintosh machines to boot by using a server-based disk image instead of booting via a local disk. Part 1 also ...