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Apple Gift Guide 2022
10/20/22
Looking for a reasonably-priced gift for an Apple fan? Sick of seeing suggestions like iPhones and MacBook Pros? Here are some real-life ideas for gifts that prioritize fun over function.
10/19/22

There are hundreds of keyboard shortcuts for Mac users. There are Mission Control shortcuts, Finder shortcuts, system shortcuts, application shortcuts and more. Many you can find by just looking through the menu bar for that application. You can find system ones by looking in the System Preferences under Keyboard.

But some keyboard shortcuts are more useful than others. And some are harder to remember than others.

So MacMost has compiled a list of our top “power user” keyboard shortcuts for macOS 13.0 (Ventura). Here they all are on a single PDF page, downloadable and printable: The MacMost macOS Ventura Keyboard Shortcuts. Download it and pass it along!

Custom Paper Sizes In Mac Pages
10/19/22

You can create a custom page size with any width or height you like. The trick is knowing where to do to create these sizes, and then how to adjust other things like margins and headers after changing.

View and Control Your Apple Watch From Your iPhone
10/18/22

A new feature in iOS 16 and watchOS 9 is the ability to mirror you Apple Watch screen on your iPhone. You can use this to get a larger view of your Watch screen or to do a screen recording.

10 Ways To Look Up Dictionary Definitions On a Mac
10/17/22

Your Mac has a built-in dictionary that you can access in many ways. You can also get definitions from other sources.

How To Animate In Keynote Using Magic Move
10/14/22

Animation in Keynote can be as easy as duplicating a slide and making changes to create a start point and end point. Many professional animations in presentations just use this simple technique.

Learn How To Use Mac Pages In 5 Minutes
10/13/22

Learn how to create a Pages document and add text with formatting, line spacing, headers and footers and much more in this quick tutorial. If you need to get up to speed fast to start a report or paper, this tutorial is for you.

10 Uses For iPhone Live Photos
10/12/22

Live Photos are more than just a bit of video attached to your pictures. You can use them to create loops, long exposures and pick a perfect frame when your subject won't stay still.

Dictation Spelling Mode On the iPhone and Mac
10/11/22

A new mode in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura lets you spell out words and other phrases letter by letter.

How To Use Basic iMovie Transitions
10/10/22

Learn how to use the built-in iMovie transitions, including lots of tips and tricks.

How To Schedule a Text Message On an iPhone
10/7/22

You can use a personal automation to schedule a text message to be sent at a specific time with your iPhone. There are a few catches, though.

How To Deal With Unusual Page Numbering In Mac Pages
10/6/22

Learn how to set up your Pages documents for title pages, front matter, left and right facing pages, skipped pages and much more.

10 Uses For Your iPhone Camera Besides Taking Photos
10/5/22

You can use your iPhone's camera for more than just taking photos. Here are some other useful and interesting things you can do with the camera. Third part apps mentioned: Google, WAM: World Around Me, Star Walk 2, PeakFinder, Seeing The Invisible.

How To Use Autofill In Mac Numbers
10/4/22

You can autofill cells in Numbers using copy and paste, a special autofill feature, and by simply adding new rows to a well-formed table. With the autofill feature, you can have values increase by 1, or using a pattern.

Use This Trick To Manage Your iMovie Projects
10/3/22

By default every time you create a new iMovie Project it just adds on to your one and only iMovie Library. This makes it difficult to manage and archive your iMovie projects over the years. Instead, create a new Library each time you want to start a new project.

5 Ways To Trim Audio On a Mac
9/30/22

If you want to trim some time from the beginning or end of an audio file, you can quickly and easily do it with built-in macOS apps or free Apple-made apps you can download from the App Store, or a free third-party app. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages.

17 Things You May Not Know About Quick Look
9/29/22

Quick Look allows you to preview files in the Finder. But you can also do other things with it like rotating and editing images, trimming videos, scroll through documents and select text to copy, view multiple files as an index sheet or slideshow and more.

Using External Editors With the Mac Photos App
9/28/22

While Photos has a lot of adjustment and cropping tools, you can also use your favorite image editor directly with the Photos app. You can choose to edit the photo in an editor and have the results saved back to your library, or you can use an editing extension for even tighter integration. See examples using Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro.

Building Video Titles Using Mac Keynote
9/27/22

Instead of using the limited title options in iMovie, you can build almost anything you want in Keynote as a presentation. Use text, transitions, builds and animations to make your title sequence. Then export as a video to use in iMovie over a background.

Using Mac Mail Conversation Features
9/26/22

In Mac Mail you can group messages together by conversation. This can make it easier to see your messages, stop quoted text clutter, and allow you to mute active conversations when you don't need to participate.