One of the more useful things you can do as a Mac expert is to help others in your company or home who need assistance. There are a lot of third-party apps and services that let you share your screen...
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...
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...
Have you ever wanted to record game performance on your Mac? Wonder how well your shiny new iMac or MacBook runs games? Wonder no more. Now you can with the Count It app – the first ever frames per...
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...
Today’s WWDC keynote saw the unveiling of the next iterations of iOS and the newly named macOS. The announcements of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra will lead many to wonder whether their devices or Macs will support the new operating...
In late April, Apple reported the company’s first negative-growth quarter since 2003. Declining iPhone and iPad sales were no doubt the major factor in this rare occurrence, but it was not just Apple’s mobile devices that saw a decline in...
At last year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple brought big changes to iOS with iOS 9 and OS X with the latest iteration “El Capitan”. So what exactly is being announced at this year’s WWDC keynote address at the Moscone West convention...
