Beautiful Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Photo ©2019, Steven Sande If there's one part of traveling that remains a "pain point", it's staying connected to those at home or back at the office without either running up a horrendous mobile data...
Bow River near Banff, Alberta, Canada. Photo ©2019, Steven Sande This is the second in a series of articles from the Rocket Yard to help you enjoy your tech equipment while you’re on a trip, either for business or (hopefully)...
The 2019 edition of the Mac Pro saw the light of day at the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) last week. It's a remarkable powerhouse that does justice to the Mac Pro model line, and certainly to its name. At a...
Mission Control, originally released with OS X Lion, allows you to organize your windows, apps, and virtual desktops, as well as run small apps known as widgets, in a dedicated space. If it sounds like Mission Control is the Mac's...
Have you ever had to help a friend or relative troubleshoot their Mac? An easy way to view someone else’s screen or control their Mac over the internet is to launch Screen Sharing. Search for Screen Sharing with Spotlight (Cmd...
Larry O’Connor, CEO of Other World Computing, today issued the following comments on the May 30, 2019 statement from the White House regarding proposed new tariffs on imports from Mexico: “OWC was founded over 30 years ago, and has grown...
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) takes place next week at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Between Monday, June 3 and Friday, June 7, thousands of developers attend workshops, chat with Apple engineers and their peers, and hone...
The Notification Center was added to the Mac with the release of OS X Mountain Lion in the summer of 2012 and was meant to corral a stampede of push services that was threatening to inundate users with uncontrolled notifications...
Welcome back for another edition of the Networking and Security Series. Last time, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using virtual private networks (VPNs), and in today's article we'll compare top VPN providers. Other posts in this series have...
