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 ...

Made the "jump" from 10.4.11 to 10.7.3 last night. First order of business was getting the Developer Tools on, so I could re-compile the CLI tools. Turns out Xcode 4.3 was just released a few days ago ...

The open source Homebrew package manager gives Mac users access to Unix command-line utilities that Apple left out — and a lot more In the beginning was the command-line. That’s true of almost all ...

If you don’t live on the command line, it can be easy to forget the exact syntax of commands. It often leaves you running to the “/?” or “–help” switches, or else a quick Google search to find the ...

Typing commands into a terminal may seem tedious, but with the right tools, the command line can be incredibly powerful. Here are our favorite command line tools that do awesome things you just can't ...