We hope you remember that there's a big holiday next week. No, we're not talking about Valentine's Day. This is an event that happens every second Monday of February -- National Clean Out Your Computer Day. On Monday, Feb. 12, you...
(Photos courtesy of Gregg Ellman) Being in demand is a good thing except when it’s not. A photojournalist for more than a quarter of a century, Gregg Ellman worked for numerous mid-market newspapers across the country before settling down in...
Safari Technology Preview is yet another browser available for your Mac, but this special browser lets you see into the near future. Even better, you can bend the future to your will. If that sounds a bit fantastic, it’s because...
In an earlier article, we looked at 10 Mac Features You Probably Don't Use But Should. While researching that article we came across a bit more than 10 notable Mac features, so a follow-up article was born. This time, we...
With each release of the Mac OS, new features are added, older features may be updated, and in some cases, removed or replaced. Over the course of a few OS updates, it's easy for some very useful system features to...
Last week, we started our exploration of Finder customization by looking at the Icon and List view options. If you would like to review the first installment, you'll find it in the Rocket Yard article: Mac 101: Customizing Finder Views,...
For industry-leading data recovery specialists DriveSavers, the recovery process is a numbers game of zeros and ones. When a customer sends in a drive that is physically damaged, the company’s recovery engineers make an image of the binary code —...
The Finder is the operating system's default file manager for viewing and working with the Mac's filing system. It allows us to easily see and work with the hierarchical organizational structure inherent in our Macs. To help us easily find,...
After 16 months of using and testing APFS—Apple's new file system—I’ve come to the conclusion that you probably don’t want to use it on HDDs (disks with rotating platters). Why? Well, to understand why APFS and HDDs are not well...
