Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

You Mac's logs may hold the information you need to troubleshoot problems. But they are very difficult to understand. AI chatbots can help.

If the right side of your Menu Bar is too cluttered, here are some techniques for cleaning it up by shrinking, removing, reorganizing or relocating the items there.

The cropping tool in Mac Photos can be used to remove portions of a photo or recenter it on what is important.

macOS Tahoe greatly expanded the use for symbols in the Menu Bar menus. You can find these symbols for your own use with the SF Symbols app, and also turn them off with a hidden setting.

You can use the Table Of Contents functionality in Pages for more than just a basic table of contents. You can also use it as an index to content like images, illustrations, tables and charts as long as you set up and maintain your paragraph styles.

There are some strange and hidden features in macOS. Here are 10 that are also somewhat useful. Learn how to put color backgrounds behind your files, make your Mac speak the time, speak in odd voices, sample colors on your screen and more.

There is no built-in RSS widget in macOS, but you can create one using the Reminders widget and a Shortcut with an automation.

You can easily have your Mac read selected text out loud. You can select the voice and speed. You can add a keyboard shortcut and have it highlight text so you can follow along.

Quick Look is a powerful previewing tool built right into macOS. You can use it to view and sometimes work with files without opening them in an app.

You'll see the time 9:41 appear in Apple marketing and other places. Learn where that comes from and how people sometimes get the details wrong.

The slideshows you can make in the Photos app force many choices on you. But by using the free Keynote app you can build simple video slideshows and only enhance them with transitions and text that you like.

If the right side of your Menu Bar is too cluttered, here are some techniques for cleaning it up by shrinking, removing, reorganizing or relocating the items there.

Learn how to build a simple shell script that quickly locates a file and opens it.

The screenshot tool in macOS does a lot of things very well, but highlighting text isn't one of them. But you can still do it using many different techniques.

If you are looking for a quick way to get up to speed with Mac Numbers, this tutorial takes you through the basics in just 5 minutes. Learn how to use sheets and tables to store data, sort and filter. Learn how to use formulas for calculations.

If you need to export areas from within an image, you can use the Export For Web tool, AKA Slices.

Set up the Medical ID and Emergency SOS features of your iPhone today so those features are ready to help you when you need them.

The cropping tool in Mac Photos can be used to remove portions of a photo or recenter it on what is important.

If you need to alter a photo to use in a document or presentation, it is already a good option to use AI to do it instead of an image editing app and lots of work. But how well does Apple's AI compare against Google's Nano Banana?

Happy Birthday Apple! Here's a personal look back at some of the best Apple products.