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If you’re getting ready to install macOS Catalina on your Mac, you have some preparations to make and a few choices to make. While many people just download the new operating system and let the installer do its thing, it’s a much wiser choice to do a bit of housecleaning and preparation before you perform the upgrade. In this Rocket Yard...
I love iCloud Drive, but there's always been one missing feature that has forced me to use another cloud storage solution (Dropbox) as well as iCloud. That missing feature? Shared folders. macOS 10.15 Catalina finally brings shared folders to iCloud...
macOS’ Safari web browser offers a Pinned Sites feature that allows you to keep your favorite websites open and active such as …. ahem … OWC’s Rocket Yard blog. The sites you pin will stay active in the background, pinned...
Optimize Mac Storage was first introduced with macOS Sierra and will apparently continue in the upcoming macOS Catalina. When you turn it on, it automatically deletes things when your Mac is running low on space. Some folks love the feature,...
macOS Catalina is usually installed as an upgrade over an existing version of the Mac OS. But you can also perform a clean install, which places a pristine version of macOS Catalina on a drive of your choice. A clean...
Many apps in macOS have a tabbed window feature that allow them to open multiple windows in tabs (think of how you use tabbed windows in Safari). Tabs are available in such Apple apps as Mail, Maps, TextEdit, Pages, Keynote, and...
