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The red dot with a number in it over your Mail icon can be made a lot more useful to you if you take the time to look at this setting and configure it to represent unread email that you really care about.

If you need to type a letter with an accent mark or another version of that letter on a Mac, you can do so easily by just holding down that letter on your keyboard.

Answers to many of the questions that I have been getting about Apple Creator Studio over the last week.

If you only use Pages, Numbers and Keynote and don't want the Apple Creator Studio subscription, you should get the new apps, and just ignore the subscription features. Here's how to hide some of them away.

If you documents with the new Apple Creator Studio apps, can you still open them with the regular versions of those apps? What if you use subscription-only features?

Here are some tips for using the Minimize feature on your Mac that lets you temporarily move windows into the Dock and bring them back easily.

Should you be getting the new Apple Creator Studio subscription from Apple? It includes six apps previously for sale at a one-time price, plus extra features for four apps already on your Mac. See if the math adds up for you to make it worthwhile.

Join me as a look at the various new features you get with Apple Creator Studio, with an emphasis on Mac Pages, Numbers, Keynote and Pixelmator Pro.

You can use Back Tap on your iPhone to trigger many different kinds of actions to help you quickly access functions on your iPhone when screen taps and gestures are too complex or difficult.

Pages allows you to use two or more columns on a page by simply changing one property of the text. There are also ways to use different numbers of columns throughout your document, justify text, and link text boxes in page layout mode for multiple columns.

Learn about some hidden and non-obvious features of the Mac Dock such as icons that show you information, how to quickly access settings, add spacers and more.

Explore the design and meanings behind some of the Mac app icons you look at every day.

Learn about the four Finder views and the different and surprising View Options available with each one, including the Desktop view.

Here are some tips for getting the most from the Weather app on your Mac. Learn how to put the weather in the Menu Bar, view cool wind animations, get severe weather notifications and build your own weather readout in Shortcuts.

You don't have to be a graphics expert to create desktop wallpaper from your photos or just using simple patterns.

A new feature introduced in macOS 26 and iOS 26 is the ability to post polls with iMessage. These are very simple to create and have many uses.

The toolbar at the top of Finder windows shows the current folder name and a collection of buttons. But there are a variety of hidden features and options that can come in handy.

Watch as I build a simple spreadsheet in Mac Numbers to track personal expenses and income. Then I'll use some pivot tables to break things down by month, category and more.

When you type quotation marks or an apostrophe on a Mac, it will automatically curl the punctuation in the right direction. This is called Smart Quotes. Learn how it works and how to get the mark you want.

Learn how to create Mac Finder aliases, some tips, and 10 ways to use them like as Desktop access to files deep in your file system, quick-filing drop zones, app collections in the Dock and more.