Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

You can use the News app as a customized article feed only from sources you want to see. So instead of reading about world news, politics or finance, you can make it your tech news, science news or entertainment news app.

Turns out there is a way for Apple to prefer us to speak or write keyboard shortcuts: Control, Option, Shift, Command. I'll try to follow this from now on.

You can rename multiple files using the Finder's hidden Batch Rename tool. You can change matching text in all file names, or add an index number to each file's name.

Learn some Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a simple retirement planning table and chart. Learn how to use basic formulas to calculate how savings will grow with contributions and interest each year.

Apps like Pages, Numbers and Notes use specific colors for selected items and highlights. This is called the Accent Color. You can override the accent colors in these apps with a system-wide accent color setting.

Here is a handy technique you can use to add files to the Dock for easy access even if the files are located in different folders.

Starting with macOS Sonoma you will see an indicator under the text cursor when you have Caps Lock turned, are using dictation, or have just switch keyboard input types. Here's more about this and how you can turn it off if you really want to.

The second beta of macOS Sequoia gives us a preview of how iPhone Mirroring will work. This will allow you to see and work with your iPhone as if it is a window on your Mac's screen.

Learn how to be more productive when writing in Pages by using styles, the left sidebar, sections, dictation and more.

You can rename multiple files using the Finder's hidden Batch Rename tool. You can change matching text in all file names, or add an index number to each file's name.

Sometimes it can be difficult or impossible to select text to copy from a web page or image. But you can use Live Text or take a screenshot and copy text from that instead.

You can use Keynote to remove the background behind you and record yourself onto a virtual green screen. Then you can use that video in iMovie.

If text on a web page looks too small for you, you have many different options to make the text larger and the page easier to read.

With macOS Sequoia, iPadOS 18 and iOS 18 you'll be able to do math with variables and function inside of the Notes app. Check out this amazing new feature coming to the new operating systems this fall.

When iOS 18 comes out this fall you'll be able to put app icons wherever you want, tint your Home Screen, lock apps, add tons of controls to Control Center, and even change the buttons on the Lock Screen.

Starting with macOS Sonoma you will see an indicator under the text cursor when you have Caps Lock turned, are using dictation, or have just switch keyboard input types.

When you store photos in the Photos app, they become part of your Photos Library. But you can also create albums to view your photos in a different way. What exactly happens when you put a photo from your Library in an album?

A hidden new feature in macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 is the ability to mark files to be kept downloaded even if you have iCloud Drive "Optimize" turned on.

Window management is coming to macOS in Sequoia later this year. See how it looks and works so far in the early beta version. You can easily move windows to the left, right, top and bottom, in quarters and more. You have many ways to access these new window management features.

When iOS 18 comes out this fall you'll be able to put app icons wherever you want, tint your Home Screen, lock apps, add tons of controls to Control Center, and even change the buttons on the Lock Screen.