Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

8/16/25
I took lots of pictures with my Sony mirrorless camera, but also took some great shots with my iPhone that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
8/15/25
If your Mac Calendar is cluttered, here are some techniques you can use to clean it up or at least make it easier to see the events that are important.
8/14/25
Here are 10 tips and tricks to help you beyond Finder basics. Learn how to use Column and List views, the Go To Folder command, do boolean searches, Batch Rename and more.
8/13/25
If the date and time of a photo in your Photos library is wrong, you can change it by adjusting the time zone or just changing the date or time itself. You can do this for multiple photos at the same time. You can also set or change the GPS location of a photo.
8/12/25
Years after a video about unusual things you could do with the Mac Calculator, lets take a look and see if these still work in the new Calculator app that comes with macOS Sequoia.
8/11/25
When you see those square QR codes in restaurants, stores and around town, are they safe to use? They are just easy ways to get to web pages, so the risks are essentially the same as any link.
8/9/25
If you like to keep files on your Mac's Desktop, here are some tips you should know that will help you manage them.
8/8/25
Learn how to set up Focus modes, highlight PDFs, add your classes to your calendar and more.
8/7/25
If your Mac Calendar is cluttered, here are some techniques you can use to clean it up or at least make it easier to see the events that are important.
8/6/25
The Info Window in the Mac Finder is a great tool, but the Inspector gives you basically the same thing but with some advantages.
8/5/25
A look back at 15 useful pages at Apple.com to see which ones are still there and how they have evolved from 10 years ago.
8/4/25
The Dock is much more than a way to launch apps. But learning to use Dock Menus you can jump right to a specific window, reopen a recent document, use special commands and much more.
8/2/25
Turns out you can add an Up button and perhaps a lot more to the Finder windows with just a little scripting and a lot of persistence.
8/1/25
You can use the Shortcuts app to have your iPhone respond automatically to messages. You can choose one or more recipients and when they text you they will get a response back even if your iPhone is locked. You can customize by specifying text to look for in the original message and adding things like your location in the response.
7/31/25
The Info Window in the Mac Finder is a great tool, but the Inspector gives you basically the same thing but with some advantages.
7/30/25
If you customize the styles in a Pages, Numbers or Keynote document you can create a template from that document to easily reuse those styles again. You can also copy and paste styles from one document to another.
7/29/25
You can create a relatively simple Shortcut to add a timestamp to a photo. You can add other information taken from the photo's metadata as well.
7/28/25
There is no built-in basic function to sort a list in Pages. But you can do it without leaving Pages by using a temporary table. You can also use Apple Intelligence to sort a list, often with more complex options.
7/26/25
You hear about Homebrew so often online that it is interesting to know what it is and how it works, even though you probably don't need it.
7/25/25
Learn how to use soma basic Numbers skills to build a habit tracker. You can track habits each day, see when you have made your goal, see your best streak, and even view charts with the data.