In the Rocket Yard's first look at macOS Sierra, one of the standout features I looked at was Siri on the Mac. Several readers here and on another blog I write for have asked me point-blank just how useful Siri...
Despite the advances made by Macs in both the corporate and home PC markets, there are still many more Windows PCs in the world than there are those running OS X. But there are a lot more iOS devices --...
macOS Sierra Public Beta Apple surprised many people last month when it announced during the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote address that its desktop/laptop operating system would be renamed macOS. Fortunately, they're keeping the theme of California locations and landmarks for...
A while back I showed readers of the Rocket Yard how to take an old MacBook and repurpose it as a Chromebook -- a computer that runs Google Chrome as a web-based operating system. Today I'm going to take the cross-platform...
Like death and taxes, there's one more thing that's an absolute in life - all hard disk drives (HDDs) will eventually fail. It's not a matter of "if" the drive will fail, just "when" it will stop working. That's why we...
Although the demonstrations of iOS 10 that were the highlight of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference were intriguing, it's always much more instructive to actually use a new OS version for the first time. During the past few days, I've...
Have you ever wanted to record game performance on your Mac? Wonder how well your shiny new iMac or MacBook runs games? Wonder no more. Now you can with the Count It app – the first ever frames per...
It's vacation time! I just got back from a twelve-day road trip, and being the techie that I am, I just had to take my iPhone 6s Plus and iPad Pro along with me. To keep my usage of cellular...
The American Flag lowered to half-mast at dawn at OWC headquarters in Woodstock, IL. Each and every year, OWC is closed on Memorial Day to honor the thousands of individuals of our U.S. Armed Forces that have given their lives...
