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 ...

Remember the days of digging through folders of shortcuts and menus to launch applications? These days many users prefer customizable, attractive docks for launching and keeping track of their ...

Taskbars? Start menus? You don't need no stinkin' start menus. You've got a dock that meets all your application launching and organizing needs, and we want to hear all about it. Update: For the five ...

As we began this grand adventure, I devoted the second installment to those things you spied on the Finder desktop after you’d started your Mac. One of those items was the Dock—the bar at the bottom ...

This is a story I never had any intention of writing. Dropbox updated its file-sync application for Mac last month, and the new version contains an annoyance that I would like to eliminate. I figured ...

I've googled, I've searched Apple's support, and I apparently my search-fu is weak, so I figured let's try the hive mind. I noticed about a week ago that when I expand the Application folder link on ...