[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hohe5Qvkx4] As an adjunct professor for the Taylor University Film and Media Production program, Josh Taylor helps future filmmakers get started in their craft. He also does double duty as chief media engineer, where he’s responsible for the department’s...
You may have heard rumblings about an incredibly bad bug in macOS High Sierra that allows anyone to walk up to a Mac and log in as a root superuser without needing a password. Now the root superuser has ultimate...
Note: This article originally ran on the Rocket Yard in May 2013, but remains relevant today. We think that is is important to periodically remind users of their rights. Macs are beautifully built machines. They’re solid, sleek and easy to...
macOS High Sierra brings with it a new filing system known as APFS (Apple File System). APFS replaces HFS+ (Hierarchical File System Plus), and offers a new, modern file system that is optimized for use with SSDs (Solid State Drives),...
During the past few months I’ve had the pleasure of working with Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac, the latest in a line of virtualization tools from Parallels. With every release, Parallels seems to make it easier to run Windows and other...
One of the niceties in the Mac OS is the ability of the system to display how your storage space is being used. Originally introduced in OS X Lion as part of a feature upgrade to the System Information app,...
Safari 11, included with macOS High Sierra, has a number of new features. It's also one of the fastest browsers, at least when it comes to rendering and running JavaScript. But one feature that's turning heads in the web-marketing arena...
By now you’ve read the “quick hit” live blog from yesterday’s Apple iPhone X event, and you may have very well watched the event livestream. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the announcements and their importance to...
I recently upgraded my 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, thinking that by the ninth beta version every little bug had been worked out. I'm glad to say that I haven't found any bugs, but...
