If you have a spare hard drive lying around, you could use the existing recovery partition to install the OS on to that, even if just temporarily. If you have a friend with a Mac, he could download ...

Today, Apple officially releases Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) -- a major update that will be installed by thousands of early adopters (many users received their copies a week ago) in its first few hours of ...

According to an article posted on stepwise.com, using Apple's Mac OS X Installer application (e.g., as found in the Utilities folder) can cause damage to your Mac OS X volume. Matt Fago had exactly ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

Most of us face the prospect of upgrading our operating systems with a mixture of excitement and dread. True, a new OS brings cool new ways to work. But that doesn’t change the fact that when you ...

I have been stymied in my attempts to use the install disks from a 20 inch Imac to install Leopard onto my trusty old 12 inch Ibook G4 1.2 ghz with 768 mb ram and a 160 gb hard drive. The installation ...

It’s highly unlikely Apple will ever give us an iPad that runs macOS — and that’s OK. Because with a few tricks (that do not require a jailbreak), you can ...

Zenoss on Wednesday announced the addition of a native Mac OS X installer to Zenoss Core 2.3, an open-source IT monitoring tool. Zenos Core helps system administrators and network managers configure ...

If you’re looking for a way to easily download the installer pkg of recent and future macOS software releases, a new app from Scripting OS X will let you do just that. “Download Full Installer” is a ...

A new, more dangerous variant of "MAC Defender," dubbed "Mac Guard," has been discovered, and the new malware does not require an administrator password to install ...