CNET

Tutorial: Preferences Files: The Complete Story

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Introduction to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

In current times if you want to transfer a file to a friend, you can just attach it in an email and send it off. With high speed bandwidth being so cheap and plentiful to the home user, transferring a ...
CNET

Tutorial: Permissions, Accounts, and File Organization

Because of its Unix heritage, Mac OS X is a true multi-user operating system from the ground up. Yet some people have used Mac OS X for many months without fully realizing what this means -- as the ...
ZDNet

Disk Probe tutorial, part 2: Files and boot sectors

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Managing your Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files

Every time you visit a web page Internet Explorer makes a copy of the content of these web pages as files on your computer. These files are called Temporary Internet Files and are used to allow for ...