Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

While it seems like the Menu Bar is built to be controlled with your mouse or trackpad, you can actually get to everything in the Menu Bar using only your keyboard. In fact, there are several ways to do control the Menu Bar with your keyboard.

While many apps have the option to export as a PDF file, you can actually do it with any app at all as long as there is an option to Print.

Don't let yourself get frustrated by changes to your devices or apps. Learn to embrace change and look at it as an opportunity to learn new things and explore.

You can easily create circular text or text along any freeform curve in Pixelmator Pro on your Mac. You can export this as an image to use in Pages, Keynote, iMovie, etc.

Reader View is a great way to read large amounts of text on a web page. Get rid of distractions like ads, navigation and sidebars, and read with larger text on a plain background. You can also use Reader View for nicer printouts, PDFs and text features.

One of the most useful tools on your Mac is its ability to speak text. You can use this to read text, or as a writing tool. You can use it almost anywhere.

You can add page numbers to the top or bottom of all of your pages in a Pages document. Learn how to add and modify them, skip pages, style the text and more.

Tired of videos with mild productivity tips that are just minor tweaks to how you already work? Here are some extreme productivity ideas for Mac users that can really shake things up.

You can extract pages and parts of pages from a PDF using a variety of different techniques on your Mac in Preview. One is so easy it almost isn't worth mentioning the others.

You can use STOCKH to get the closing price for a stock, but it is tricky to get around weekends and holidays when trying to build a table and then a chart.

Learn some basic Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a document that tracks a stock portfolio. Learn to use functions, perform math operations, get column sums, format cells in various ways, use conditional highlighting, use multiple tables, build charts and more.

A new feature coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will be the ability to remove items from a web page manually. You can use this to get rid of things before reading or exporting the web page.

Before sending photos, consider the size of the attachments and what the recipient really needs. If it makes sense, use one of these techniques to shrink the photo file size down to something more appropriate.

You can add page numbers to the top or bottom of all of your pages in a Pages document. Learn how to add and modify them, skip pages, style the text and more.

The latest version of the free clipboard manager from MacMost includes a search function, the ability to snooze clip capture, and lots of new powerful Smart Clips functions.

Apple just released a beta test of a web version of Apple Maps. This allows you to use Apple Maps on non-Apple devices, which could come in handy for businesses.

When switching from Windows to Mac you'll see lots of specific tips for using and altering your Mac to make it more like Windows. But if you really want to switch, learn to do things the Mac way.

Apple released the first developer beta that includes some Apple Intelligence features. Take a look at the summary, proofreading and rewrite tools, Siri and suggested replies. More to come.

If you need to take and markup screenshots often, you don't need a third-party app. The built-in screenshot utility on your Mac will allow you to do this quickly and easily once you learn some tricks.

Learn some basic Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a document that tracks a stock portfolio.