Welcome to our monthly Apple News Roundup. This column recaps the top 10 biggest Apple news announcements from each month. This edition features the highlights from May of 2021. 1. Apple awards $410 million to support manufacturing jobs This award from Apple's...
What is a NAS? If you’ve been looking to increase the amount of storage for your setup, you’ve probably come across the abbreviation NAS. It stands for Network Attached Storage. It refers to a hard drive or group of hard...
Over the years, many have speculated over the possibility of Apple merging their two popular platforms: iOS and macOS. Microsoft offers touch-compatible Surface devices, and Apple added mouse support to iOS. Apple also delivered the ability for the Mac to...
It’s been widely covered how external drive performance is unacceptably slow with M1 Macs. Well, we have some breaking news on this and you’re reading it here first on the Rocketyard Blog...
If you are an iPhone user, you have no doubt shared files with other Apple devices. The sharing options on your iPhone are useful, to say the least, and anyone who has ever had to get that one picture from...
The Dictation feature of macOS allows you to talk where you would type. You can reply to an email, search the web, or write a report using just your voice. Here’s how: Navigate to any text field, activate Dictation, then...
Apple turned 45 on April 1, 2021, and though it certainly is not as monumental as a 40th or 50th anniversary, it did not go unnoticed by Apple's CEO. In a company-wide memo, Tim Cook took the opportunity to remember the past and look forward to the future.
When you open an app like Safari or the Finder on your Mac, a window opens on the Desktop. Sometimes you end up with lots of open windows that you may wish to merge. Note: Don’t confuse the Finder with...
To call Apple a "trailblazing company" would be an understatement. Much of the brand's history is practically folklore in the tech world. You probably already know of Steve Jobs and his iconic black turtleneck. You may even be familiar with...
