Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

“My smart watch is so much better than your old-fashioned watch!”
“Oh yeah? When the battery is dead, mine is still right twice a day.”

iMovie includes a variety of useful titles that you can use in between clips or on top of them. Some of the titles allow you to change the font style and other elements. Sometimes the creative use of spacing, extra lines and justification can let you customize them further. You can also use your own images for completely customized titles.

You can use Preview to easily merge two PDF files, or bring pages from one into the other. You can also create new documents from pages selected from another PDF. You can even bring images into PDFs as new pages.

When you create a basic table in Numbers, it is important to use Headers and Footers properly. Headers allow you to define the contents of rows and columns, and you will see these labels appear in formulas and charts. Footer rows allow you to perform functions like SUM and AVERAGE on an entire column, with the formula adjusting to the content in between the header and the footer.

Apple promises many missing iWork features will return soon.

Apple Seeds Two New Mavericks Updates to Employees for Testing.

Apple to Build Sapphire Glass Manufacturing Plant in Arizona.

Updated Remote App With iOS 7 Redesign Hits App Store.

Apple Preparing Bug Fix Updates to Mail, iBooks, Safari and Remote Desktop.

Santa’s Christmas Ride is a free game holiday offering from MacMost’s parent company, CleverMedia. You play Santa trying to deliver gifts to children. No time to actually land and go down the fireplace, though. You have to toss the packages and hit the chimneys. It is a quick, fun play for all ages.

“I really hate iTunes 11.”
“iTunes is bloatware. It tries to do way too much. What do you hate about the new version?”
“They removed some thing.”

The calendar in Mavericks has a feature where you can add travel time to any event. Then when you set an alert you can set it for “When I need to leave” instead of at the time of the event. The alert will activate at the appropriate time before the event taking travel time into account.

Learn how to use Keynote to create a simple presentation that includes text and images. You can choose from a variety of templates, and then add slides from that template. You can populate the slides with your own information and then play back the presentation.

When you have a video or photo that does not fit into your iMovie video project exactly, you most crop it one way or another. You can decide to cut off portions of the image so it fills the frame, or you can show more of the image, but have black bars in the space not covered. You can adjust the cropping to best fit your needs.

You can use paragraph and character styles to manage the attributes of your text in a Pages document. You can use the built-in styles, or create your own. When you change some text, you can create a new style and then use it throughout your document. You can then update the text that uses that style in one place.

Apple reported another good quarter with more than 14 million iPads sold, 4.6 million Macs, and almost 34 million iPhones. The company had $37.5 billion in revenue, a record for the September quarter.
The new iPad Air will hit Apple Stores tomorrow, with supply expected to be plentiful. It is likely that you’ll be able to order online and order for in-store pickup after midnight tonight. Early testing by some shows that the iPad Air may be significantly faster and more powerful than the current 4th generation iPad, in addition to being thinner and lighter. The new iPad mini with retina display should launch later in November.

How about something a little scary for Halloween? Slender Rising is a simple game with excellent 3D graphics. You move around looking for signs in creepy environments. At any time the Slender Man can appear and you must look away and run away before he kills you. You know the scare is coming — it is always coming — but the tension builds up to just the right amount to cause a fright.

“Internet companies are violating our privacy more and more these days! I’ll tell you about it as soon as I finish filling this form out.”

In Safari, Preferences, Advanced there is an option in OS X 10.9 or newer to “Stop plug-ins to save power.” This will pause a lot of power-hungry web content like videos and games if you are on a MacBook and not connected to power. You can simply click on the content to start it up.

You can use Finder tags to help you organize your files. You can create as many tags as you need, and then assign multiple tags to the same file. You can use them on local files as well as iCloud files. Searches for tags will reveal files across all locations and iCloud apps.

Learn the basics of iMovie. See how to import video clips and then combine them into a larger video. Find out how to export that video to a file, or put it in iTunes Theater.

Check out the new features of Mac OS X Mavericks. There are two major new apps that come with the operating system, plus overhauls to Calendar, Notes and Contacts. You also get new features in Safari and better support for multiple screens.

We thought that instead of writing a book on Mavericks, why not do what we do best and create videos! So we’ve created The Video Guide To Mavericks. We put together 25 videos with more than 2 hours of instruction, and made it super-easy to get by putting it in the Mac App Store.

This is a great way for beginners to get to know Mac OS X Mavericks, and for casual users to dig deeper into the features. The videos are unique, not something that can be found anywhere else. The app lets you jump easily from video to video and you can resize the window for better viewing, even going full screen.

Even if you are proficient in using OS X, you may want to consider recommending this to friends as a good way to jump in and learn more.
Here’s a complete table of contents:

• Introduction
• What’s New In Mavericks
• Getting Around
• Working With Files
• Using Finder Windows
• Where Files Are Stored
• Storing Documents In iCloud
• Using the Dock
• Installing and Running Apps
• Using Mission Control
• Sharing Files Between Computers
• Working With Text
• Versions, Autosave and Resume
• Browsing the Web
• Reading and Composing Email
• Playing Media With iTunes
• Working With Contacts
• Creating Calendar Events
• Reminders and Notes
• Messages and FaceTime
• Using Preview
• Customizing Your Mac
• Notifications
• Creating Multiple Users
• Using Gestures
• Maintaining Your Mac
• Advanced Tips

Apple made several major announcements this past Tuesday with the release of Mac OS X Mavericks, revised apps, and new hardware. The biggest surprise may be that this latest OS X upgrade is a free download, and all six major Apple apps are now free.
The hardware announced included the new iPad Air which replaces the 4th generation iPad. In addition, a new version of the iPad mini features a retina display. There were also new MacBook Pros at a lower price point.
The six apps updated and made free were: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iPhoto, iLife and iMovie. All six are available on both the Mac and iOS. See our video below for a summary of the announcements.