We showed you a handful of fantastic, instant keyboard shortcuts to shut down, reboot, or sleep your Mac, but an even safer way is to bring up the Power button dialog box that happens when you hit the ...

First restart may be longer than usual Note that your first restart after installing Mac OS X 10.4.3 may be longer than usual -- up to 10 minutes or more on some system installations. The stall is ...

[See yesterday's coverage for Mac OS X 10.4.6 release notes, update process recommendation and general workarounds] Double restart Some PowerPC-based Macs exhibit a double restart after application of ...

If you have a modern Mac, there’s almost no reason not to use FileVault, the all-disk encryption that’s built in to OS X. It doesn’t slow the computer down, it keeps your data safe and – if the ...