Of all the "under the hood" components of Mac OS X, my personal favorite is preferences files. Why? For starters, they are important. They potentially affect every application you use, from the Finder ...

In this installment of our continuing series on preferences (.plist) files, we finally delve into the details of how to interpret and edit .plist files. I'll be primarily showing you how to do make ...

When you want an application to fit the way you work—for instance, you may want your Dock to appear on the left side of your screen, or prefer that Microsoft Word save files as Web pages—a trip to its ...

Safari crashes on launch. Mail quits when you try to send a message. What to do? Most savvy Mac users will delete the application’s preferences file, which stores changes made to the program’s default ...

Yesterday Quicksilver started acting a little goofy, and I wasn't surprised; I have just about every beta and extra turned on as I just can't stop exploring all the neat stuff this app can do. During ...

Erica Sadun, iPhone hacker extraordinaire, has lovingly crafted a replacement preference file for the iPhone which will enable a slew of extra options. Mac power users will be familiar with this kind ...