There an interesting debate which is going on since many years about how Mac apps should be distributed an installed. Back in September John Gruber wrote this interesting piece, outlining the pros and ...

I work for a non-profit, and my executive director just spent close to $11,000 on MacBooks, and I have to set them up. My experience with OSX is minimal, at best, but I learn as I go along. There are ...

One of the potentially frustrating things about switching back and forth between Mac and Windows PCs can be proprietary formats — a key example being Apple's DMGs (disk images). Here's how to extract ...

A DMG file is a proprietary disk image file format developed by Apple for its Macintosh line of computers. These are large, single files that comprise the entirety of a physical disk, such as a DVD or ...

Speeding up OS X A. Brody has posted a brief list of suggestions for getting OS X to work faster. OS X "advantages" satire Larry MacPhee has posted a satirical look at the Top X Reasons to Move to OS ...

FrSIRT (the French Security Incident Response Team) reports on a newly demonstrated flaw affecting versions of Safari in Mac OS X 10.4.8 and prior where maliciously crafted disk images -- which are ...

The subject really says it all - A friend of mine has system files stored as Mac .dmg disc image files, her Mac isn't playing ball and we need to get access. Not knowing anyone else with a Mac, I was ...