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.
Apple unleashed an avalanche of updates today that are designed to not only fix the usual leftover bugs from previous OS releases but add features to devices, including the new iPad Pro announced earlier this week. As many people are...
You may have a printer with a built-in scanner, or perhaps even a dedicated scanner. But if you don’t — and you have an iPhone or iPad running the latest operating system versions — your Apple mobile devices can step in as a perfectly capable document scanner. We’ll show you how!
The three cameras of the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max. Image via Apple Many iPhone owners use their smartphone as their only camera thanks to the ease of use of the Camera app and the overall quality of the...
Every year (at least for the past several), Rocket Yard has posted the wallpaper images for macOS and iOS ahead of their official launch dates. And this year, macOS Catalina and iOS 13 are no different! iOS 13 comes with...
Mac and iOS users have a very powerful -- and free -- word processing and page layout app at their fingertips, and that app is Pages. Created by Apple, Pages has become more powerful over the years and is a...
We're back for the last installment in our four-part series about the iOS 12 Shortcuts app. The first article introduced readers to the Shortcuts app by describing the purpose of the app, the user interface of Shortcuts, and general settings....
Welcome back to our series on the iOS 12 Shortcuts app! In our first article, we introduced you to the Shortcuts app with a description of the purpose of the app, a guide to the user interface, and the general settings that...
This is the second in a short series of articles about the Shortcuts app, a powerful automation tool built into iOS 12 (See how to automate tasks on Mac here). In our first article, we described how to download and install...
