Month Archives: March 2020

It’s March 31, which means it is World Backup Day. This observance is held each year to spotlight the importance of backups and remind people to make backups a habit. Backups are the only way to make sure that your important data is copied to at least one other location so that it is still accessible if your Mac, iPhone or iPad is damaged or lost. Every year, we celebrate World Backup Day here at The Rocket Yard by showing our readers just how easy it is to make backups on all of their Apple devices. If you’re not making regular backups, today’s the day that you should begin. Check out this informative video first, then follow our instructions to start making your backups.

If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod you can use the Remote app — free at the Apple App Store — to control your Mac’s Music library from a distance.  iTunes Remote lets you control Apple Music, iTunes, or...

Slovenian journalist and film critic, Damijan Vinter, gives us his take on this year's Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale). Celebrating its 70th year, it has once again confirmed its status as one of the world's leading film festivals: 342...

Apple today released a screening app and website designed to provide people with a way to determine the course of action they should take with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic. Developed in cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and...

On March 24, Apple released updates to all of its major operating systems that brought one long-awaited, often-delayed feature that had been announced at the 2019 WorldWide Developer Conference — iCloud Drive Folder Sharing. In this article, we’ll discuss why this is such an important and useful feature, then show you how to use it on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.