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FREE WORKSHOP: Mastering Your Home Studio Mixes

Join us for a free OWC workshop to discover the best ways to boost and enhance your mixes in your home studio. If you have ever felt underwhelmed by your mixes on playback, you might need to do a little home studio mastering, and this workshop will help show you how.

How to Use the Summarize Service for Articles and Web Pages on a Mac

The macOS has a Summarize Service that provides you with the gist of an article or web page. And it’s customizable. You can pick paragraphs or sentences, and adjust the length of the summary. The length can range from a simple outline to a CliffsNotes-like version (you remember CliffsNotes from high school, right?) of selected text.

Pro Audio: Get the Best Out of Your Podcast Audio With These Recommendations

With many people still at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a great opportunity to either start a new podcast or take some simple steps to improve the quality of the audio you’re putting out into the world. In this installment of Pro Audio, we’ll cover some of the gear you’ll need to create high-quality podcast audio on a budget, with additional recommendations if you’re fortunate enough to have extra funds.

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How to Force the Finder to Restart in macOS Catalina

Catalina Quick Tip If your Mac is misbehaving, you may need to restart the Finder. But don’t confuse the Finder with the Desktop.  The Finder is the first thing that you see when your Mac finishes starting up. It opens...

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Work From Home Essentials: Helpful Apps and Utilities

After you work from home for a while, you build up a collection of apps and utilities that become a toolkit for your at-home workflow. Everyone's toolkit will be different, with some specialized tools for the type of work they do, but there will likely be some core products found in everyone's toolkit for working at home. In this Rocket Yard guide, we will take a look at apps and tricks to help you manage your work-from-home environment. This is by no means an exhaustive look at available apps and utilities, but it should provide an inkling of the type of workflow utilities and tricks you may need.

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How to Change Your Desktop Picture in macOS Catalina

Catalina Quick Tip My wife’s Mac’s desktop is so cluttered with files and folders that it’s impossible to see the desktop image. Mine isn’t. If yours isn’t and you want to change the desktop picture, it’s easy to do. In...

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How to Clear Your Safari Browsing History on a Mac

Catalina Quick Tip You can remove all records that macOS Catalina’s Safari keeps of where you’ve browsed during a period of time you want. If your Mac and your other devices have Safari turned on in iCloud preferences, your browsing...

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