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...
It’s easy to work on files together in macOS. When you share a file in iCloud Drive, you and your team can all work on the same version of the same document at the same time. How to Work Together...
Last June at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple made its usual announcements about upcoming changes to its operating systems -- iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS. Among the changes were some hotly-anticipated upgrades to Apple Maps, the company's homegrown...
Last week, The Rocket Yard showed you how to use Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet app for iOS and iPadOS to capture info with forms. This week, we’ll show you how to use the free Keynote app for Mac to create a fancy photo slideshow. Why Not Just Use the Photos App? You’re probably asking yourself, “Wait, why not just use the Photos app to create a slideshow?” There are some good reasons to use Keynote for your slideshows instead of Photos...
Our iPhones and iPads are perfect for data collection in the field; they’re portable, don’t require the use of a keyboard, and can connect to the cloud from almost anywhere. Apple’s free Numbers spreadsheet app is a perfect tool for analyzing data that’s captured on mobile devices, and it also has a relatively unknown feature that creates easy-to-use entry forms. Today I’ll show you how to create a form with Numbers on the iPhone and iPad.
On March 24, Apple released updates to all of its major operating systems that brought one long-awaited, often-delayed feature that had been announced at the 2019 WorldWide Developer Conference — iCloud Drive Folder Sharing. In this article, we’ll discuss why this is such an important and useful feature, then show you how to use it on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.
Microsoft Office has been around for years on Mac, and the software company created separate iPhone apps for Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheet), and PowerPoint (presentation). Last month, Microsoft released a totally new Microsoft Office for iPhone that includes new...
Handoff is a tool that was designed into Apple’s operating systems to make it easy to copy and paste things like text and images between devices or answer a call coming into your iPhone on your Mac. It’s part of an overall scheme called Continuity that was developed by Apple to let users start work on one device, then continue on another. Did you know that Handoff also works well to transfer files? In this tech tip, we’ll show you how to transfer files from one Apple device to another easily.
Apple’s Reminders app for the Mac has been completely revamped for macOS Catalina with a new user interface and several new features. One of my favorite features is the new Messages integration. You can tag someone in a reminder, so that the next time you’re chatting with the person in Messages, you’ll be reminded that, for instance, now might be a good time to talk.
