Safe mode and single-user mode are two of the special start-up modes that your Mac can be powered up to. They're often used to troubleshoot issues a Mac may be experiencing or to assist in isolating and repairing some common...
Apple is wonderful about building accessibility into its products, and one iOS feature that is useful in a variety of situations is Guided Access. This feature is essential for those with motion impairments, as it can be set up to...
In the midst of all of the anticipation of Apple’s upcoming operating system upgrades, one major change seems to be getting less attention than others. Apple will be switching from the existing image and video compression file formats used on...
First, it was computer viruses, then other forms of malware. Now there's a new threat out there: stalkerware. If you haven't heard the term "stalkerware" before, it's probably because it's something that has only surfaced in the past few months thanks...
The version of Safari included with macOS High Sierra brings new and significant abilities to customize how it works with each website you visit. You may have already read about Safari's new ability to block user tracking by websites, or...
The Rocket Yard recently featured a pair of posts (here and here) discussing how to use Smart Mailboxes to organize emails into custom views. But did you know that Apple Mail on Mac has a much more powerful tool built...
Your browser is generally a tattletale, willing to divulge many secrets it knows about you or can find out, just for the asking. It's not really the browser's fault; that's just how most browsers are made. We'll show you how...
Even with the bigger hard drives, SSDs, and Fusion drives in modern Macs, it's still possible to run low on storage space. Especially on the MacBook and MacBook Air with 128GB of SSD storage, storing a lot of video, photographs,...
We're in the middle of summer here in the northern hemisphere, which means that for most of those in the temperate zones, it's hot. Humans don't do well in extended hot conditions, nor do our favorite consumer electronics. In this post,...
