Since 2008, Data Privacy Day has been celebrated in the United States and Canada on January 28. While the day commemorates the January 28, 1981 signing of the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection, it...
Editor’s Note: OWC will be attending the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Ahead of the festival, the Rocket Yard will share a series of articles related to all things filmmaking. Macs have been at the center of many creative endeavors since the first...
A RAM Install on a 27-inch iMac through the "back door" Now that the new iMac Pro is available, you might be thinking about getting one to speed through video editing and rendering…or just to gain bragging rights. There was...
(Detail of T2 chip, photo from OWC teardown of the iMac Pro.) Before the iMac Pro finally shipped in late December, 2017, there was a lot of speculation that the powerful desktop machine would contain an Apple A10 chip, possibly...
If early sales figures are any indication, many shoppers purchased Macs during the recent holiday season. That’s not a surprise: sales of Macs have been rising for years as people decide to extend the Apple user experience they’ve come to know...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hohe5Qvkx4] As an adjunct professor for the Taylor University Film and Media Production program, Josh Taylor helps future filmmakers get started in their craft. He also does double duty as chief media engineer, where he’s responsible for the department’s...
You may have heard rumblings about an incredibly bad bug in macOS High Sierra that allows anyone to walk up to a Mac and log in as a root superuser without needing a password. Now the root superuser has ultimate...
Note: This article originally ran on the Rocket Yard in May 2013, but remains relevant today. We think that is is important to periodically remind users of their rights. Macs are beautifully built machines. They’re solid, sleek and easy to...
macOS High Sierra brings with it a new filing system known as APFS (Apple File System). APFS replaces HFS+ (Hierarchical File System Plus), and offers a new, modern file system that is optimized for use with SSDs (Solid State Drives),...
