If you ever used the “classic” Mac OS (OS 9 or earlier), you likely remember Extensions Manager or its more advanced commercial alternative, Conflict Catcher. Both utilities let you enable or disable ...

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MacFixIt reader Jason Titus has completed a comprehensive set of benchmarking and analysis of how well the various filesystems perform on Mac OS X. He used IOZone to benchmark HFS+ with and without ...

How to get AFP working: Mac OS X 10.4 no longer supports AFP over AppleTalk, use TCP/IP instead For the past few days we've been reporting on problems with AFP (Apple filesharing protocol) access ...

According to sources privy to pre-release builds of Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system, the release will feature "Fast Logout and Autosave" technology and support for Access Control Lists ...

Passware, a vendor of forensics tools for recovering data for law enforcement, has issued a warning that its forensics tools can bypass the security of FileVault disk encryption in Mac OS X if the ...