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Pro Audio Mixing Tips

Pro Audio: Mixing Tips

For many artists and home audio enthusiasts, the mixing process can seem like a daunting task. If you feel unsatisfied with your mixes and they don't hold up the way you like when compared to commercial releases, here are a few tips that can go a long way in improving the final result.

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How to Use 🔎 Quick Look in macOS (Leopard and Later)

macOS Quick Look is a wonderful feature. Introduced on June 11, 2007, along with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Quick Look can preview files such as Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Microsoft Office, PDFs, HTML, QuickTime readable media, plain text, and RTF text documents, and RAW camera images.

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10 Fantastic Mac Finder Tips

They may not all be fantastic, but these 10 Finder tips can help you become a master of Finder finesse. The Finder, of course, is the main way you find, organize, and make use of files on your Mac. These...

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Managing The Desktop: Tips for New Mac Users and Old Hands

The Mac has so many features that it’s not uncommon for new Mac users to overlook helpful tricks, as well as for old hands to simply forget about them. In this New Year, the Rocket Yard takes a look at often overlooked but surprisingly helpful tips for managing Mac's desktop.

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Tech Tip: Using Handoff to Transfer Files Between Devices

Handoff is a tool that was designed into Apple’s operating systems to make it easy to copy and paste things like text and images between devices or answer a call coming into your iPhone on your Mac. It’s part of an overall scheme called Continuity that was developed by Apple to let users start work on one device, then continue on another. Did you know that Handoff also works well to transfer files? In this tech tip, we’ll show you how to transfer files from one Apple device to another easily.

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Speed Up macOS Catalina with These Tips

Did you recently upgrade to macOS Catalina? After the initial thrill of seeing a new desktop and exploring new features, did you notice that your Mac isn’t as fast as it used to be? While it isn't normal for the Mac to slow down after a system upgrade, it has been known to happen.

Tips for Travelers 2019: Physical Security for your Mobile Devices

Beautiful Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Photo ©2019, Steven Sande It’s time for another Tips for Travelers 2019 article, just before many Rocket Yard readers head off for some mid-summer fun over the Independence Day weekend. Today we’ll look at how...

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🚀 TipOff #28: ⌦ Delete Forward Without a “Del” Key

This one is quick and easy, but something you may not know... Every keyboard has a delete/backspace key to delete backward, but if it doesn't have a "delete forward" key ⌦, simply hold the fn (function) key and press the...

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🚀 TipOff #25: Use Continuity Camera on a Mac

Continuity Camera was introduced with MacOS Mojave. Continuity Camera was introduced with MacOS Mojave. This feature allows users to take a picture or scan directly into a document with their iPhone or iPad. Continuity Camera can be used in any...

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