When you are working with an item on your Mac, such as a file, folder or mounted drive, you can create an alias to it that does not contain the word "alias." All new Macs running the OS X operating ...

Apple has long provided the ability to create desktop aliases in macOS by Command-Option dragging. Here's how to do it from the macOS Dock. Given most macOS desktop items such as files, apps, disk ...

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...

Repeating text work-around? If you have the repeating text problem we previously noted here (and detailed in this MacFixIt Forums thread), George Papanicolaou offers this tip: "Adjusting keyboard ...

However, there is one part of the behaviour of aliases (Mac OS 9 style aliases, not symbolic links) that can be desirable: the alias still works if the original file is moved to a different location.

OK, I've got my Mac on a friend's XP network. I needed to share a directory with him so he could grab some stuff off of my computer. Turn on Windows networking, his computer sees mine no problem.

Alias shared the keynote stage with Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday to announce that its popular 3D graphics and animation software package Maya Unlimited is coming to ...