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.

Staff Pick: atMonitor

atMonitor is a all in one view of the state of your system. Once installed, it runs and collects data and statistics about your system, displaying them in colorful and customizable graphs that will display in floating windows or in the menubar. You can set up triggers for threshold values, so you can execute scripts or perform other functions when the system surpasses a detected level for any measurement.