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 ...

Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or a command line noob, there’s no way you remember every command, manual page, or tooltip. Lucky for you, we have some tools to make the command line less ...

In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

If you don’t live on the command line, it can be easy to forget the exact syntax of commands. It often leaves you running to the “/?” or “–help” switches, or else a quick Google search to find the ...

Arduino now has an officially supported command-line interface. The project, called arduino-cli, is the first time that the official toolchain has departed from the Java-based editor known as the ...

For developers who love the CLI and those who don't, here are nine command-line tools that'll make your workdays easier and might even spark joy. Some developers use the command line because we have ...

If you're editing a large batch of images, it can get repetitive quickly. For example, resizing or updating metadata for an album of 200 images is the same repetitive work that can take hours to do by ...

Windows 10 can now run (many) Linux binaries. Yes, really. Here’s what you need to know to make the most of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Last year Microsoft added an unusual new feature to Windows ...

MEncoder has supported video encoding for a long time with the MPlayer Project and FFmpeg, which also now is part of MPlayer. Transcode is a new command-line tool on the horizon for video and audio ...

Microsoft this week described some coming improvements to the Azure portal, which is a browser-accessible Web page used to carry out all sorts of management activities using Azure services. The ...