On Monday, June 5, 2017, Apple is hosting its annual keynote address to kick off the Worldwide Developers Conference -- WWDC. This event gets a lot of attention from Apple fans, shareholders, developers, and those in the press, as it clarifies the...
New Macs are a joy to work with, since everything seems so speedy! Give that new computer a year or two and you'll most likely experience the opposite of joy as you wait for websites to open, watch the famous...
After releasing the beta version in late January, Apple has officially released iOS 10.3 to the public. The free update features several significant and minor changes as well as design tweaks. One change that users might not notice is the...
The macOS Sierra release on September 20th, 2016 marked a few milestones. It's the 13th release of the Mac OS, the fourth release of the Mac operating system based on place names (the previous naming convention involved cats), and the...
(The macOS Dock) Over the past week, we've been showing you how to customize the macOS Dock. In the first part of this series, we took you through the many settings available in the System Preferences Dock pane. Earlier this week...
Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo ©2016, Steven Sande Rocket Yard Contributor Steve Sande is out of the country now on a great adventure, so he’ll be providing readers with a lot of helpful tips over the next month...
Get a Closer Look at the New MacBook Pro and What It Means For Creative Professionals Last month’s Apple event was all about iPhone and the Apple Watch. But for today’s event, the company shifted its attention to the MacBook....
At the end of September, the Rocket Yard gave you the scoop on the new version of Disk Utility that is now in macOS Sierra. While we got into the details of how to verify or repair disks using Disk...
Back in the early days of the Internet, things weren't quite as stable as they are now so system administrators created a suite of tools to help troubleshoot issues. Many old-timers wistfully remember the "fun" of typing in a ping...
