Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

macOS Sequoia is coming this fall. Here's a look at the first new features in the initial beta release. We're going to get window tiling, highlighting and math in Notes, a Passwords app, send later in Messages and much more. There will be more features, including AI, coming later this summer.

Apple announced the main new features of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia at this year's worldwide developers conference. They also went into detail about exciting new AI features coming to these platforms. Take a look at what they announced. Most of this we will see by this fall when the new operating systems are released.

If you have a MacBook or a Mac with a Magic trackpad, there is no right button for you to press. But you can still right click using a variety of different techniques.

Version 3.6 of Pixelmator Pro adds a new masking interface that makes it much easier to add and edit masks to layers.

You can now make noncontiguous text selections in Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Learn how to use this new feature and some possible uses including an interesting way to make noncontiguous pastes.

You can use the &UDM=14 trick to see Google search results with fewer ads and no special features like maps or AI. But it can be hard to apply, especially in Safari. An easier way is to just select Web-only results in the page menu, or start from a third-party site.

If you feel your MacBook battery drains too fast, there is probably something you can do about it. First check out a graph that shows you the battery drain over time. Then use various techniques to figure out which app is the problem. You can even figure out if it is a specific web site you are visiting that is causing the issue.

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?

Those thin keyboard covers you can get for your MacBook may look like a good idea, but they can break your MacBook. Also avoid camera covers and screen protectors.

Note: I am making this Patreon video available to everyone, even if not supporting MacMost at Patreon.

My 2021 Shortcut that allows you to capture text from any part of the screen isn't working in macOS 14.5 as there seems to be a bug in Shortcuts concerning screen capture. Here's a temporary work-around until Apple fixes the bug.

When switch to Mac from Windows, or needing to use both, the major differences between how the similar-looking menu bars on these two operating systems is important to understand.

Apple changed the rules and now several game emulators are available in the App Store. So you can now play old Atari, Gameboy and other games on your iPhone. But why the massive day-to-day coverage at many sites?

When talking about your Mac and other Apple products it is often important to use the right terms in order to communicate and get help or discuss ideas. Learn the different between the pointer and cursor, battery life and longevity, memory and storage. Learn how to correctly identify which Mac you have and which version of the operating system it is using.

If you feel your MacBook battery drains too fast, there is probably something you can do about it.

While it is easy to sort by numerical or alphabetical values, there is no simple way to sort with a custom order like High, Medium and Low. But you can use simple SEARCH or MATCH formulas to do a custom sort if you need it.

OpenAI released a native Mac app that you can use with ChatGPT. It allows you to easily send images and ask questions using your voice.

When searching for information online you may not get your answer right away when you get to a web page. Instead of reading the whole page you can search for text within a page to quickly find what you want. Here's how to search for text on a web page on the Mac in Safari and on the iPhone.

It is easy to create presentations that combine multiple pieces of information on one slide and then use transitions to build it gradually.

If you lost your iPhone, it may have been stolen and your troubles may not be over. Because your iPhone is locked down by Apple security, you may now be contacted by a scammer looking to trick you into unlocking it for them.

When talking about your Mac and other Apple products it is often important to use the right terms in order to communicate and get help or discuss ideas.