We’ve posted the first installment in a three-part tutorial covering invisible files under Mac OS X. Written by Ted Landau, the first segment is entitled “What makes a file invisible in OS X?” An ...

When you double-click a file on your Mac, the operating system will automatically open the file using the program assigned to that type of file. It is possible, though, to open the file using another ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

We have posted the second installment of Ted Landau's guide to Inivisble Files in Mac OS X. An excerpt: "The most common methods that OS X uses to determine if a file or folder should be invisible of ...

This is not going to be a full explanation of the .X file format and the capabilities of the format. This tutorial is to help setup a working model and play animations for that model while using the ...

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