Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

You can use the Shortcuts app to have your iPhone respond automatically to messages.

You can save as a PDF from almost any app on your Mac through the Print dialog. But you can also use Open in Preview to create a temporary PDF and instantly view it in Preview. This has several advantages over Save As PDF.

Vibe coding is simply using a chat AI system like ChatGPT to help you code. You can vibe code without being bogged down in the details of a programming language or system. Watch as I use vibe coding to write a quick shell script for use in Shortcuts to process some text in a file.

Every time you get an email you should be checking to see if it is real. There are some very easy ways to spot of a scam which can save you time and heartache.

You can screenshot a list of numbers and then feed that to AI to get a total. But you can also do it without any AI at all.

Did you just see an article claiming there has been a massive data breach and billions of passwords were leaked? Don't panic. News sites love to publish these articles, even if the news is old and they repeat them often. Here's what you need to do to protect your accounts.

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.

If you are looking for a quicker or easier way to put your Mac to sleep, here are 10 methods that could help depending on your needs. Learn how to set a keyboard shortcut, use a Hot Corner, add a sleep command to an automation, ask Siri or use Spotlight.

People with a high number for an age often tend to assume they will have trouble learning new things. But I haven't found that to be true. I think this attitude is a problem and should be examined.

Learn how to go beyond basic Keynote transitions with animations that move objects on your slides. You can use builds, movement paths, scaling, rotation and Magic Move to create a variety of effects to push your presentation to the next level.

Shortcuts in Tahoe seems to do a better job of allowing a chat environment with the on-device Apple Intelligence LLM. Experimenting with it shows how knowledgeable the LLM stored on your device can be even with no Internet connection.

Instead of having music continue past the end of your video clips, or having it end abruptly, you can easily fade out music and other audio at the end of your movie. You can also adjust the volume of audio clips making them fade in, out, cross-fade, do L-cuts and J-cuts, and also manually control the volume at any point you like.

News sites love to publish these articles, even if the news is old and they repeat them often.

If you spend too much time staring at your iPhone's screen, addicted to social media apps or games, you may want to try one or more of these techniques to help you break the habit.

Text Clippings are files that you can drag and drop into some documents to insert text. You can't edit them and they don't work everywhere. In 2025, can Shortcuts do better?

When you share your contact information with someone else it will include everything, including private phone numbers and other details. Here's how to restrict what information is shared from your Mac or your iPhone.

A new feature in macOS Tahoe is being able to access clipboard history in Spotlight. In this very early beta it is interesting what it does, and does not, do so far.

Learn to use Safari on your iPhone more productively by mastering tabs. There are a ton of ways to create, manage and group your tabs, as ways to keep the number of tabs you have open under control.

If you spend too much time staring at your iPhone's screen, addicted to social media apps or games, you may want to try one or more of these techniques to help you break the habit.

When you buy a new Mac it comes with a lot of software from Apple. You get a web browser, email client, word processor, spreadsheet app, presentation app, apps for taking notes, keeping track of appointments, a video editor, a music creation app, a photo manager and so much more. For many people, a new Mac may already have everything they need.