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...
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...
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.
Printing from a Mac is as easy as pressing Command + P or selecting Print from an app’s File menu. But what if the default printing settings aren’t exactly what you need for a particular print job? If you just started...
Image via Apple.com Chances are very good that you are being asked to work from home (WFH) or attend personal meetings online as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Whether you need to have a meeting with co-workers or...
Our very own Tom Nelson recently provided some wonderful tips on cleaning your Mac, both inside and out. If you find that some of the "inside" cleaning sounds a bit time-consuming or difficult, we have another solution for you --...
OWC has announced the availability of SoftRAID 5.8.3, adding full Traditional Chinese support. The SoftRAID software platform now supports seven languages, which are automatically displayed based on each Mac’s language settings. Additional languages supported include English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
Recently, I had a heck of a time solving an issue with my wife's (aging MacBook Pro). I finally had to test the issue by creating a new user account. I hope this never happens to you, but if you...
