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,...
Call me old school, refer to me as a dinosaur but I don’t trust all my digital data to reside solely in cloud services such as iCloud. That’s why I use iTunes Match and iCloud, yet also have my music...
A bootable version of the macOS Catalina installer is one of the often-overlooked tools a Mac user should have on hand before upgrading to or performing a clean install of Catalina. The bootable installer you create in this guide will...
Starting with macOS Catalina, Screen Time is making the transition from an iOS app to the Mac. Screen Time can monitor app and device usage. Mac users can think of it as similar to the old Parental Controls used to restrict...
Beautiful Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Photo ©2019, Steven Sande It’s time for another Tips for Travelers 2019 article, just before many Rocket Yard readers head off for some mid-summer fun over the Independence Day weekend. Today we’ll look at how...
The other day, we showed developers how to install macOS 10.15 Catalina Developer Beta 1 onto a Parallels Desktop virtual machine. At the same time, we offered a few cautions about doing so -- the beta operating system runs slowly...
macOS Catalina, the new Mac operating system, was announced at WWDC 2019. It has so many new features and changes to existing ones, that it really can’t be summed up in just one article. So, we’re going to start by...
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...
You may already use Apple Pay with your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. However, it’s also a great fit for your Mac. Buy with Apple Pay But let’s back up. In case you’re not familiar with Apple Pay, it’s the...
