One of the potentially frustrating things about switching back and forth between Mac and Windows PCs can be proprietary formats — a key example being Apple's DMGs (disk images). Here's how to extract ...

Alright, in my quest for mope icons, I've come across some mac icons in *.dmg format. From what I understand, all they are is a format quite similar to the *.img or *.iso formats that we can use in ...

The subject really says it all - A friend of mine has system files stored as Mac .dmg disc image files, her Mac isn't playing ball and we need to get access. Not knowing anyone else with a Mac, I was ...

Here's a baffler: some readers have reported that when attempting to download certain .dmg files, mysterious .exe files are downloaded instead. MacFixIt reader Ira Altschiller writes: "Every once in ...

Springy, a shareware archiving utility for Mac OS X, is now at version 1.3. The free update is available for download now; Springy costs $18. Springy lets you open or browse the contents of an archive ...

Several users have reported a problem where Firefox 1.5 has problems properly recognizing that files with the .dmg.gz extension (disk images that have been compressed using gzip). For the problematic ...

If you've ever downloaded a DMG file from a website, you've dealt with a disk image. Disk images are a kind of virtual disk--like a CD or DVD or even a hard drive. They store files in a way that acts ...