Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

One of Apple's "big brother" features introduced in Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (now called plain ol' OS X Lion) is the hiding of the user's Library folder. While this may be a fine precaution for ...

Throughout its history, Apple has been focusing ever more on the new user and others who have no desire to access the bits under the hood. In fact, the very first releases of Mac OS X made a number of ...

Apple decided to hide the Library from its users in recent OS X updates, but in Mavericks you can now change that with a simple checkbox. In the past you had to enter a Terminal command with every ...

Sometimes people may find their hard-drive space being progressively used up, and there are many reasons why this could happen. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Still trying to find the best way to hide your porn? Uh, I mean..."Sensitive Documents?" Macworld has a quick tip for Lion and Mountain Lion users: Just drag them to your Library folder. Hit the link ...

How can I open the user Library folder in a disk image located on an external disk? The technique of selecting Go and holding down the Option key reverts to desktop computer. You can check your path ...

If you have photographs, videos, documents and PDFs saved to your computer, and who doesn't, you're using folders to organize them. Just like their real-world counterparts, folders are useful to keep ...