By making some adjustments in the Energy Saver preference pane, you can better tune your Mac to run at peak performance, save energy, reduce potential data loss when power fails, and extend the runtime and battery life of portable Macs. In this Rocket Yard guide, we will explore the Energy Saver preference pane and see how you can customize energy performance.
The Mac has so many features that it’s not uncommon for new Mac users to overlook helpful tricks, as well as for old hands to simply forget about them. In this New Year, the Rocket Yard takes a look at often overlooked but surprisingly helpful tips for managing Mac's desktop.
Using an external device as your Mac’s primary startup device can offer a number of advantages, as we outlined in Using an External Drive as Your Startup Drive: Part 1. This can include having increased storage space, faster performance, the ability...
You made it through the macOS Catalina installation, perhaps without any of the issues being reported by some users. Or if you did experience a few hiccups, you were able to resolve the issues and now Catalina is installed and working...
Need a new Mac but don't want to spend "New Mac money"? This guide has you covered on how to research a successful used Mac purchase.
Apple offers My Photo Stream AND iCloud Photos on its various devices. Do you need both? If not, which one is best for you? With My Photo Stream, you can access the recent photos that you take with your iPhone, iPad,...
If there are apps that you'd like to have open when you start your Mac, you can set this up in System Preferences. Go to Users, make sure your user account is highlighted, then click Login Items. Then, click the...
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...
For many of us, the Mac's Mail app is the most often used app in our collection. It has so many features that for most of us, we only touch the surface of what it can do. In this Rocket...
