Dock responds to AppleScript In response to our coverage last week on ways to kill the Dock in order to remove the puff of smoke drawing artifacts, we noted that there are more than a few ways to skin ...

Apple is exploring new ways to use the Mac OS cursor to provide users with additional information and usability options for files residing on their hard drive or linked via the internet before they're ...

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 ...

Unsanity LLC has released Mighty Mouse 1.0, the latest in a long line of “haxies” for Mac OS X development by the company. Mighty Mouse enables you to create ...

10 years ago in macOS El Capitan, Apple added a convenient and fun new feature for the system cursor. Shake the cursor back and forth rapidly and it would enlarge, making it easier to locate. This ...

Being the Disney-Pixar fanatics that we are, my wife and I went to see Up Saturday night (in Disney Digital 3D, of course) at our local theater. Remembering the appearance of the Mac startup sound as ...

Here’s a basic but essential trick that Windows users take for granted—making the mouse cursor bigger, which can help on larger screens of if you simply prefer it that way. Migrating Windows users ...

For anyone who has ever lost track of the cursor on a sprawling iPad display, relief now comes with a flourish and a dash of nostalgia. In iPadOS 26 beta 3, Apple has introduced the “shake to find” ...

Cheerful, Apple spokesman aficionado John Gruber talks about four tweets that, according to him, “may” indicate an incoming Apple hardware upgrade, perhaps the introduction of new Retina Display-level ...

Update: Federighi is also interviewed on the same topic in a special episode of the AppStories podcast. Creating the iPadOS cursor without compromising the touch-first nature of the iPad was no easy ...

When it comes to choosing a computer, whether to pick a Mac or a computer running Windows OS is overwhelming. Both Windows and Mac have their own pros and cons, making both viable choices. While ...

As Gizmodo reader Christian was walking his dog the other day in Vienna, he stumbled upon what could be considered the original inspiration for Mac OS X’s “spinning beach ball of death.” The included ...