In the event of a serious problem with your Mac, you may need to reinstall your Mac operating system. There’s a simple way to do this using your Mac Recovery partition or via Mac Internet Recovery.

Holding down the right key when you start up your Mac can fix all kinds of problems. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If your Mac is sick, the first step is to restart it. But did you know that there ...

Linux commands often have long lists of options they support, many of which are single-letter mnemonics. These can be tricky to learn and remember, but their redeeming feature is their reusability: ...

If you have an older Apple Mac computer that you may be handing down to a family member or friend or perhaps selling to raise funds to purchase a new one. This quick guide will take you through the ...

This post covers some well-known Linux commands that, when used with particular options and arguments, can save you some time or ensure that what you are doing is what you intended. The first “trick” ...

These are the best keyboard shortcuts to play music, find things in your music library, and to manage playback. Spacebar (Mac) or Ctrl-Spacebar (Windows): Play or pause the selected song.

From time to time, I find myself needing to handle command-line arguments in Java either for Java-based applications or for main() function implementations that provide a simple testing mechanism ...