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Last week, The Rocket Yard showed you how to use Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet app for iOS and iPadOS to capture info with forms. This week, we’ll show you how to use the free Keynote app for Mac to create a fancy photo slideshow. Why Not Just Use the Photos App? You’re probably asking yourself, “Wait, why not just use the Photos app to create a slideshow?” There are some good reasons to use Keynote for your slideshows instead of Photos...
Catalina Quick Tip If your Mac is misbehaving, you may need to restart the Finder. But don’t confuse the Finder with the Desktop. The Finder is the first thing that you see when your Mac finishes starting up. It opens...
Catalina Quick Tip When you click a link for an email address, your Mac opens the app you've set for that kind of link. Mail is the default email app, and it works just fine for me. However, if you...
Our iPhones and iPads are perfect for data collection in the field; they’re portable, don’t require the use of a keyboard, and can connect to the cloud from almost anywhere. Apple’s free Numbers spreadsheet app is a perfect tool for analyzing data that’s captured on mobile devices, and it also has a relatively unknown feature that creates easy-to-use entry forms. Today I’ll show you how to create a form with Numbers on the iPhone and iPad.
After you work from home for a while, you build up a collection of apps and utilities that become a toolkit for your at-home workflow. Everyone's toolkit will be different, with some specialized tools for the type of work they do, but there will likely be some core products found in everyone's toolkit for working at home. In this Rocket Yard guide, we will take a look at apps and tricks to help you manage your work-from-home environment. This is by no means an exhaustive look at available apps and utilities, but it should provide an inkling of the type of workflow utilities and tricks you may need.
You can power off or shut down your Mac laptop, of course. Should you do it every night? Once a week? Never? Let’s consider it. Some people leave their Macs running 24/7, while others shut them down the minute they’re...
