A while back I showed readers of the Rocket Yard how to take an old MacBook and repurpose it as a Chromebook -- a computer that runs Google Chrome as a web-based operating system. Today I'm going to take the cross-platform...
Like death and taxes, there's one more thing that's an absolute in life - all hard disk drives (HDDs) will eventually fail. It's not a matter of "if" the drive will fail, just "when" it will stop working. That's why we...
Although the demonstrations of iOS 10 that were the highlight of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference were intriguing, it's always much more instructive to actually use a new OS version for the first time. During the past few days, I've...
There are certain actions that anyone can take to make their Apple products more secure, but none is probably as effective as enabling two-factor authentication for your Apple ID. Let's face it, your Apple ID is used to purchase products...
iOS 10.3 Update with APFS Now Available to public Without a file system, your Mac, iPhone, iPad or even your Apple Watch would not work. A file system is used by an operating system like macOS and iOS to read from...
Apple's annual keynote to kick off the Worldwide Developer Conference is usually chock full of tidbits of information and demonstrations, some of which are fascinating to hear about or watch, but don't necessarily move the operating system platforms ahead. After repeated...
