I recently started using a pair of useful utilities, Rocket and Vanilla, that I heard about on one of my favorite podcasts for nerds, "Mac Geek Gab." Both are Mac apps created by a guy named Matthew ...

This week I’d like to highlight a handful of valuable utilities that make using my Mac better, faster or more elegant. Then I’ll explain what these (and more than 200 others apps) have in common and ...

Every time I think I can’t possibly discover other awesome, useful or fun new apps, I find a game or utility that makes something in my life just a little better or easier. This week, a couple of ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

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 ...

While OS X includes some robust tools for troubleshooting, there are a number of third-party tools that can help tackle problems or simply give you a better understanding of how OS X functions. Topher ...

Of all the words that inspire affection in a small-business owner’s heart, few can compete with “free,” especially in this economy, with companies trying to rein in spending as tightly as possible.

The idea of offering a series of tools in one place is fine, and Parallels Toolbox definitely comes with some genuinely useful utilities. Yet, some are pointless, and all feel like they were made for ...

When a piece of software promises to make my life and work simpler, I’m eager to try it out. Each week, I get word of three to six small utility programs. Many of them are shareware, meaning you can ...