Sometimes it was necessary to carry out a little maintenance on your Apple MacBook or iMac computers if you feel they are not quite running as well as they could. One method on older Macs was to carry ...

All computers act up from time to time. When things go awry, my first recommendation is always to simply shut down and reboot: Often, this simple power cycle fixes the issue. However, you might run ...

Yesterday we noted a possible fix for issues with sleep/shutdown behavior that involved resetting PRAM/NVRAM via a startup keyboard command that invokes flushing. As part of the fix, we noted that the ...

When I first installed OS X.3 (clean, on a newly formatted partition), at one point my machine (B+W) wouldn't start up, crashing very early on in the boot process, even when booting from CD. Resetting ...

I've got a sound problem which I think might be rooted in some funky PRAM settings. I'd like to reset PRAM and OpenFirmware, but I only have a Bluetooth keyboard. Is it possible to do a defaults write ...

Uh-oh. You’re in the middle of work when your laptop suddenly shuts off. No problem, you’ll just press the power button and wait for it to reboot—your document is (thankfully) saved to the cloud, ...