OS X supports displaying core system components in most common languages. This support also extends to third-party applications, where developers can add localization to easily implement multi-language support in their applications. Through juggling language preferences both for the system and for individual applications and components, you can set up personalized ways to handle languages in your computer.

OS X user accounts have a variety of attributes that determine how the account behaves. For instance, the user and group ID numbers, and paths to the home folder directory are ways the system determines what permissions the account has, and where to store personal information such as account-specific system settings.

A few MacBook Air users have noticed the recently released update for these computers either will not install on their systems or will not show up in the Software Update panel.

Apple has released an update to iPhoto which addresses a problem with importing photos from previous versions of iPhoto that could cause the program to become unstable and crash. In addition, it corrects problems with points of interest and locations being labeled incorrectly.

This may sound like a rather trivial issue, but shutting down or restarting your Mac can be a problem at times. Knowing various ways to shut down or restart your Mac can help prevent you from having to take drastic measures in the event of software hangs and crashes.

Gmail users have found that when using Apple Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird to view e-mails, messages that are marked as read by another source (the Web viewer or another email client) are not being flagged as such by the server.

Apple has released an update for the Macbook Air which updates the System Management Controller firmware to version 1.2. This update adds compatibility for the latest service-replacement batteries available for these systems.

When Time Machine backs up your files, by default it does not use any encryption or other means of securing the files it is handling. In network backup setups, while it will sequester files on a per-machine basis in sparsebundle disk images, it does not apply any encryption to these images, and as such, since they are being stored on a server these images can be mounted by anyone with access to them.

There may be times when booting into Windows via Boot Camp may not display the desired screen resolution. In some instances this might happen after attempting to customize the hardware or driver setups in windows, but in other instances may happen from the first time that Boot Camp is used.