macOS’s Contacts app automatically creates a contact card for you—your me card—when you set up your Mac. Information on your vCard — such as your name, email address, or picture (if you add one) — can be used in other...
You have a high-resolution multi-page PDF document, but its file size is too large to share easily. How do you reduce the file size before you send it off? If you aren't too keen on installing and paying for additional software or uploading your document to some web site, there is a way to easily do this on your Mac with tools that come standard in macOS.
The Calendars app in macOS Catalina is automatically backed up if you have an iCloud account and enable this option. However, I like to keep another back-up of my calendar events and urge you to do the same. Here’s how...
The Rocket Yard recently featured an article in which I described some of the issues I ran into while installing Developer Beta 1 of macOS 11 Big Sur. When I was unsuccessful in installing the beta onto an external hard drive, I decided to use a MacBook Air I had on hand to run the beta software. In today’s article, I’ll describe some of the new features of Big Sur.
You can jump directly to a specific folder or file in macOS if you wish. And it’s a fine time-saving feature. In the Finder, click the Go menu in the menu bar, then choose one of the following: Enclosing Folder...
Once the dust has settled from the excitement of the annual Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), it’s always time to start loading beta operating systems just to see how current apps work with them. If you only have one Mac and can’t “sacrifice” one to running beta software, it’s useful to install the operating system on an external drive, then boot from it when you wish to test the beta. That’s what I attempted...until it didn't work.
Using the Disk Utility in macOS, you can create a blank disk image for storage. A disk image (.dmg file) is a file that looks and acts like a mountable device or volume. In other words, it’s a file that...
Are you tired of having to reenter all your data (name, address, credit card, etc.) when using the Safari web browser? Thanks to its AutoFill feature, Safari can save you some time by automatically filling in your credit card information,...
The default printer in macOS is the one selected when the Print dialog opens. If there’s “No printer selected” in the Print dialog, you’ll need to add a new printer. For most USB printers, you just need to update macOS...
