From resolutions to rituals, there are many ways to welcome in and mark the start of a new year. One thing I like to do is to ...

Symbolic links (also called a soft link) are a very important tool to understand in Linux. These are special files that point to other files, similar to shortcuts in Windows or aliases in macOS.

Ben Khalesi writes about where artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and everyday technology intersect for Android Police. With a background in AI and Data Science, he’s great at turning geek speak ...

When you work with the command line, you’ll notice that you cannot navigate “into” aliases created with the Finder when in Terminal. For example, you cannot issue a cd command into an alias, because ...

When Apple made the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, one of the under-the-hood consequences was that Mac aliases—tiny files that point to other files—lost some functionality. Or to put it more ...

I had to emergency upgrade to Catalina yesterday to diagnose a problem reported by one of my users and have discovered that the filesystem changes have completely wrecked my workflow, simply because I ...