Earlier this week, we began a month-long series designed to bring Rocket Yard readers up to speed on networking and security. The series began with an article detailing DNS (Domain Name System), a critical component of the Internet. Today we...
Have you found that some websites are using text that is too small or too big, forcing you to either squint to see the text, or perform excessive scrolling to take in the entire site? Most browsers have methods to...
49 years ago, April 22, 1970, Earth Day was born, at a time when many cities in the US were covered in hazy smog. Pollution in many forms was contributing to environmental problems, causing health concerns, and many species were becoming...
If you’ve been using your Mac for a few years, you’ve probably noticed that it’s getting sluggish. You could buy a new Mac — and Apple would love for you to do that — but there are ways to improve...
You can use Siri, Apple’s “personal digital assistant,” to find files on your Mac (and other places). This comes in handy when you can’t remember the full name of a file or where you saved it. First, you need to...
Apple fans have a lot to be happy about right now — Spring is just around the corner (March 20) and Apple announced an event with the tag line “It’s Show Time” for March 25. Today we’ll take a look...
In the world of Windows PCs, one popular thing to do -- instead of lugging around a laptop on your travels -- is to load up a USB flash drive with what are called portable apps. These are applications that...
The last three months have been a roller coaster ride for Apple investors. Shortly after reaching an all-time high share price of $233.47 in October of 2018 and a correspondingly high market capitalization of over $1.1 trillion, various factors collided...
There are many features of the Mac that are often overlooked by new users, or simply forgotten about by those who have been using Macs for a while. In some cases, the feature is used once when setting up a...
