Find the entire macOS Server series here! After a brief hiatus, we're back with the next part of the Rocket Yard's server series. In Part 1, we introduce readers to what a server is, what kind of Mac is best suited...
Have you ever been away from your home or office Mac and suddenly realized that you a) left it on when you meant to shut it down, b) tried to run a report or access a system only available from that machine, or...
Keychain is a password management system for macOS and iOS that was originally released with Mac OS 8.6 back in 1999 as a way of holding passwords, private keys, certificates and secure notes in encrypted files on the machine. Since...
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your Mac were lost or stolen? Your first thoughts may be about the inconvenience, or the expense of replacement. But when you take a moment to consider what's likely stored on your...
OWC today introduced class-leading 10, 20, 30, and 40TB SSD models for ThunderBay 4 mini RAID. The new high-capacity SSD configurations are powered by the revolutionary SoftRAID engine, which delivers powerful disk-health monitoring, rapid RAID re-builds, and outstanding performance, with...
How often have you heard the phrase "make sure you have a backup"? In our tips and articles, we tend to dispense that advice often, usually just before providing instructions for performing some task or other that could lead to...
The OWC miniStack External Hard Drive (photo by Steven Sande) Mac owners are sometimes lulled into believing that their computers will never fail, but as we always like to say "There are two types of people - those who have...
Back in the ancient days, hard drives were small, floppy disks were plentiful, and email systems choked on attachments larger than a few hundred kilobytes (KB). Fortunately, some geniuses figured out a way to compress the data in files into...
In the Rocket Yard's first look at macOS Sierra, one of the standout features I looked at was Siri on the Mac. Several readers here and on another blog I write for have asked me point-blank just how useful Siri...
