Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

The iOS and iPadOS versions of Numbers include a special feature that allows you to see and enter single rows of data as forms. Here are some examples of how you can use it.

Mac OS X and before came with some very useful features that are still present on Macs today, but many people have forgotten about. Re-discover these handy apps and functions that are already on your Mac.

Text Replacements is a great productivity tool that can can be used in a variety of different ways to save you time and effort.

If your Mac doesn't have a webcam, or you want better quality than what you get from your MacBook or iMac's camera, you can use the Continuity Camera feature to let your iPhone be your webcam.

You can use Shortcuts to create Folder Actions instead of Automator as long as you trigger the Shortcut with a shell script, and you then manually add the shell script in a plist to the LaunchAgents folder. After you set it up once, it should be easy to do again and use this method instead of Automator.

To make it easier to view and enter data on a small screen, Numbers has a special Forms interface where you can see each row of a table on a separate screen in a form.

A review of some of the basic backup strategies that different Mac users rely on, looking at the pros and cons.

Curious about how to use the Mac Terminal as an alternative to the Finder or to set hidden macOS settings? Learn the basic commands to get started.

Mac OS X and before came with some very useful features that are still present on Macs today, but many people have forgotten about.

If you have more than one display and want to stretch a window across them, you may find the window only shows up on one display at a time. However, there is a switch that will allow this by changing how Desktop Spaces work.

Here is a failed attempt at making a Mac tutorial as a comic book page instead of an online video.

There are a lot of options when it comes to taking screenshots on your iPhone. Learn how to copy directly to the clipboard, crop, make PDFs, screenshot whole web pages and much more.

When you use markup tools in Mac Preview or in other apps there are two tools that can be very useful for pointing out things in a document or photo, but are rarely used.

Your user Library folder is normally hidden from you and hard to view. Here are three easy ways to get there and also why you should and shouldn't be messing around in your Library folder.

Curious about how to use the Mac Terminal as an alternative to the Finder or to set hidden macOS settings? Learn the basic commands to get started.

With iMovie it is quick and easy to take several video clips and merge them into a new video. You can even rearrange, trim and split clips, and add transitions between them.

When opening, saving, importing or exporting in apps on your Mac, it can take a few steps to get to the folder you are already using the Finder. Here are some methods for getting there quicker.

TextEdit is a simple but powerful app that comes with your Mac to let you create and edit plain text and rich text documents. In many cases it is the right tool for the job over more complex word processors like Pages or Word.

The MacWhisper app, which is great for transcription, can also do dictation. It not only converts your speech into text, but also will run the results through an AI prompt to create some interesting stacked functionality.

If you notice that there are apps in LaunchPad on your Mac that you didn't install, they could be Chrome-based apps for things like Google Docs, Drive, Sheets, Slides and more. You can't remove them from LaunchPad, but you can uninstall them properly if you know where to look.