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Clean Up Your Desktop With Mission Control Spaces in macOS Big Sur

Dennis Sellers

May 6, 2021

macOS sports a “Mission Control” feature that comes in very handy. Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces were combined together and renamed Mission Control in 2011 with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. (Mac OS X was renamed simply macOS in 2016.) The goal is to remove Desktop clutter by allowing you to create additional Desktop Spaces. With Mac OS X El Capitan, Mission Control was streamlined to make it even easier to see and organize everything you have open on your Mac. This implementation continues with macOS Big Sur. To Set Up a Mission Control Space: Click on the...

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AJA read/write speed test on an M1 Mac mini

Get Up to 67% Faster External Drive Performance With Your M1 Mac!

OWC Grant

May 4, 2021

It’s been widely covered how external drive performance is unacceptably slow with M1 Macs. Well, we have some breaking news on this and you’re reading it here first on the Rocketyard Blog...

Apple News Roundup: April 2021

Kim Wacker

May 4, 2021

Welcome to our monthly Apple News Roundup. This column recaps the top 10 biggest Apple news announcements from each month. This edition features the highlights from April of 2021. Mark...

OWC Awarded Three Gold Stevie® Awards for 2021 From American Business Awards®

OWC Newsfeed

May 3, 2021

Tech leader wins multiple awards in the Hardware Storage, Computer Hardware, Consumer, and Electronics categories. OWC announces it was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award for Hardware Storage,...

How to Restrict & Limit App Usage Using Parental Controls in Big Sur

Dennis Sellers

May 3, 2021

I've been working from home for a long time now, and more and more folks like me are joining the WFH numbers thanks to the COVID pandemic. Whether this is...

OWC in the Press: News and Reviews – April 30, 2021

OWC Derrick

April 30, 2021

Welcome to this edition of OWC in the Press: News and Reviews, where we showcase some of the latest headlines and most helpful articles from publications across the globe. This...

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HOW TO: Great Uses for the macOS Finder Share Menu

Brian Levin

April 30, 2021

If you are an iPhone user, you have no doubt shared files with other Apple devices. The sharing options on your iPhone are useful, to say the least, and anyone...

macOS Big Sur 11.3: What You Need to Know & Why It’s Important

Steve Sande

April 30, 2021

Along with the release of iOS 14.5 on April 26, Apple updated most of its operating systems. Here's what's new in macOS Big Sur 11.3 and why those changes are...

macOS Beta No Longer Required When Using SoftRAID on M1 Macs

OWC Tim

April 29, 2021

What Apple broke in macOS Big Sur 11.2 With the release of macOS 11.2, Apple introduced a bug in the kernel which prevented the SoftRAID driver when running on M1...

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How to Work With RAW Files in the macOS Photos App

Dennis Sellers

April 29, 2021

You can edit photos in a variety of formats with the macOS Photos app. For some folks, working with the RAW format offers several benefits. RAW vs JPEG. Of course,...

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