There’s a lot to love about macOS Big Sur, including the changes to the Reminder app. Before you could share reminders, but not assign them. Now you can assign reminders to folks with whom you share lists, and they’ll get...
The Mac Photos app in macOS Big Sur adds the ability to edit videos. You can adjust parameters like light and color, add filters, and crop and rotate videos without having to use a third-party app. If you need to...
The Photos app in macOS Big Sur has several new features that make a good app even better. Retouch a Photo The Retouch tool now uses advanced machine learning to remove blemishes, dust specks, and other objects from a photo. To...
With macOS Big Sur, you can translate entire web pages in Safari. When you encounter a compatible page, just click the translation icon (see in the graphic below) in the address field to translate into English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German,...
The macOS Notes app has, for some time, allowed you to pin notes so that they’ll always appear at the top of your listing. With Big Sur, you can expand or collapse the list of pinned notes with a double...
When Mac OS X El Capitan debuted in 2015, it was the first time with a Mac operating system that you could hide the menu bar. This continues in macOS Catalina. I’m not sure why you would want to, but if you do, here’s how to hide the menu bar on a Mac...
Live Photos are magical! The camera on your iPhone 6s/6s Plus, iPhone 7/7 Plus or iPhone SE snaps a "photo" that records what's happening 1.5 seconds before and after you tap the shutter button, so all movement and sound is captured...
Macs have come a long, long way since the first model appeared back in 1984. While the first Mac came with a relatively minuscule 128K (kilobytes) of RAM, the newest crop of Macs comes with a minimum of 4GB of memory...
We speak often at the Rocket Yard about protecting your digital data. But there are times that your physical devices also need protected whether it’s in the case of fire, water damage or in the author of a recent Hackernoon...
