The Rocket Yard is the place to be for tips and hints about security, but one simple security tip that many people forget about is just making sure that your Mac screen is locked if you're away from the computer for...
Are you SMART about the health of the drives in your Mac? SMART stands for Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology, and it's a way for a drive to report its health or problems to macOS. SMART status reports if...
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just around the corner, the kids are out of school, and it's time to go on vacation. Sadly, the flood of emails that appear in your inboxes won't take a vacation, but there is...
I was expecting a version of the macOS that would mostly be about security and performance, but while I expected a fastball, Apple threw us a curve. Apple announced that macOS Mojave not only included the expected security, performance, and privacy...
As soon as the crowd departed from the keynote hall at WWDC 2018 on Monday, Apple made the first beta versions of iOS 12 and its other operating systems available to developers. Today we’re taking a first look at some...
Yesterday's announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote address were remarkable in one aspect: unlike past years, there were absolutely no hardware announcements of any sort. That flew in the face of expectations; many in the Apple blogosphere...
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a statement saying that all consumers and small businesses should reboot their Wi-Fi routers and NAS devices. If you haven't yet taken the time to do this, check the rest of...
Securely wiping a drive, removing all of its data, and ensuring that no meaningful information can be recovered, has long been a feature of Disk Utility and its erase function. Even though the default for Disk Utility is a simple...
On Friday, May 25, 2018, a new regulation known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) begins being enforced in the European Union countries. You've probably had your email inbox inundated recently with messages about revised privacy policies as companies act...
