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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...