Reader Ted Adams is particular about what is and isn’t in his Mac’s Applications folder. He writes: Is there any way to get rid of the applications I have no use for that are included with Lion? I ...

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 ...

Apple's Recovery partition for OS X Lion contains a number of utilities, but you can only open one at a time. Here is how to open multiple utilities at the same time to ease your troubleshooting and ...

[Editor’s note: The list is now up to 19, thanks to a great reader tip.] But if you’ve just upgraded to Lion, try accessing your personal Library folder that way now. Go ahead…I’ll wait. While I ...

FixApplicationsFolderPermissions 1.0 is a tool from Apple that fixes the problem where the Applications folder may be locked or have incorrect permissions after ...

From just using Command-Q to entering Terminal commands, there are a surprising number of ways to quit an app — and, at times, we need them all. Here's how to get rid of an app that just won't quit.

If you tend to use a lot of different apps, it’s nice to have a running list of your most recently used. iMore points to a nifty Terminal command that adds a recently used menu to your dock for easy ...