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 Settings 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 the top keyboard shortcuts for macOS 14.0 (Sonoma). Here they all are on a single PDF page, downloadable and printable: The MacMost macOS Sonoma Keyboard Shortcuts. Download it and pass it along!
iOS 17 includes 14 new features in the Messages app alone. Learn how to use Emoji as Stickers, share your location, create stickers from your photos, swipe to reply to a specific message and much more.
With so many new and interesting features in iOS 17, I had to make a second video. Learn how to use Stickers in different places, easily crop photos, leave a FaceTime video message, and much more.
Here are some of the new features of iOS 17 that you should check out once you have upgraded.
If you work with Mac Numbers you can use ChatGPT to get help with functions and formulas, generate sample data, clean up data and more.
If a YouTube video is too fast or too slow, you can change the playback speed in the video settings or using keyboard shortcuts. You can also easily jump back 10 seconds to see or hear something again.
Even if you are already backup up with Time Machine locally, you should consider having an online backup as well. Here are the reasons you may want to have a second backup online, or why you may be fine just using Time Machine and iCloud.
There's more you can do with Google than just search the web. You can also access tools like a calculator, random number generators, weather, nutritional information and much more. You can even play a variety of games.
Instead of using iMovie travel maps, you can create an animated travel map using any background map you have and trace a detailed route onto it. This tutorial will also teach you some basic Keynote animation techniques. You can even add a graphic or icon to follow the path.
You can choose whether the Menu Bar on your Mac is always visible, or will hide when you aren't using it. The setting for this recognizes the difference between using a Desktop space or a Full Screen space, so it is important to understand Mission Control as well.
Here are some more unusual places and situations where you can use Copy and Paste on your Mac.
Here are some unusual places and situations where you can use Copy and Paste.
There is no command in the Finder that will let you create a new blank file at your current location. But you can create a Shortcut that will let you do this each time easily. The Shortcut needs to use both JavaScript and shell scripting to get the job done.
When printing from some apps it can appear that there is no way to scale the content of a document while printing. But different apps put scaling options in different places. Even when there are no scaling options, you can use other tricks to print at different sizes.
Instead of using iMovie travel maps, you can create an animated travel map using any background map you have and trace a detailed route onto it. The video will show the route being drawn onto the map. You can even add a graphic or icon to follow the path.
While it is easy to access recent files in the Finder, it is less convenient to look at your recent folders. But by adding a Smart Folder to the left sidebar you can easily get there.
If you find a lost iPhone there are a lot of things you can do to help reunite it with its owner. But some of the advice you'll read online will lead you in the wrong direction. Learn the best way to return a lost iPhone.
You can decide which folder you start in when you create a new Finder window or add a new Finder tab. Some locations are mode useful than others. Picking the right location for you can improve your productivity.
Pie charts can represent a simple comparison between a set of values. Here are some other chart variations that you can use to also represent a simple visual comparison.
You can easily create a spinning newspaper special effect for your video projects using a one-slide Keynote presentation. You can export it as a video and import it into iMovie or any other video editing app as a clip or an overlay.
