This morning at 8 a.m. ET, the embargo lifted on Apple Watch reviews from a limited number of professional tech journalists at major news outlets. After reading through many of the reviews, watching the accompanying videos, and doing a little "reading...
So, you’ve upgraded the hard drive on your Mac. But when you try to install Yosemite, you run into trouble: a message stating, “An error occurred while preparing the installation.” While that’s a vague message that could mean just about...
Readers of the Rocket Yard are a pretty special group and include a number of those folks that we call "system administrators." You know the type – they're the people who keep your website running 24/7 and make sure that the...
I’ve been making my own Mac icons for folders, applications, and a myriad of other uses for well over 20 years now. Back then, I was stuck with 256 (or fewer) colors, a black/white alpha channel, and pretty much had...
Do you enjoy playing the classic game Tetris? Did you know that it is already on your Mac, and that you can play it right now? You do have to feel comfortable using the Terminal application (found in Application/Utilities/Terminal.app) and...
By Lloyd Chambers, Guest Blogger An overlooked aspect of data management is data integrity: are the files intact tomorrow, a year from now, on the original drive and backup drives, or perhaps even on a DVD or Blu-ray? Or after having...
Have you ever removed an application or driver only to find out later there are still traces of it on your Mac? Perhaps you are just curious where files go during an installation? Fear not! Apple has made it very...
Does your new blazing fast SSD appear to be sluggish when waking up from sleep? There’s probably a good reason behind this, although I doubt it’s because you’re making it work too hard. Apple implemented a new Standby Mode with...
I had just rebooted after installing the 10.8.4 update, I went and opened up OS X Mail and got a pop up telling me that my plugin TruePreview was not compatible and I needed to check with the developer. I...
