Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

How To Translate Text On Your iPhone
5/20/24
There are a variety of ways to translate text between languages on your iPhone. You can select and translate in almost any app, including text you write. You can also translate text inside photos and spoken text in a special built-in app.
5/18/24

In iOS 17.5 by default your News+ subscription will include automatic downloads of the latest news articles in your feed so you can view them offline without needing to remember to download anything beforehand.

How To Translate Text On Your Mac
5/17/24
Your Mac has a built-in translation feature that works almost anywhere. You can translate text to read it, or to aid in communication. You can even translate text embedded into photos.
5/16/24

You don't always need a premade template. For instance, here's how easy it is to create a Pages template for a single-sided quad fold card. But you do need to consider the inner margins and how to design a nice inside to the card even though it needs to print upside down.

How To Save Photos From Apple Messages
5/15/24
If the data in your Messages app is taking too much space on your Mac, iPhone or in iCloud, then you should clear out old photos and videos in conversations. You can do this in the Messages apps, but also in Settings. Then be sure to save and delete photos as you get them moving forward.
5/14/24

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.

Mac Typing and Editing Keyboard Shortcuts
5/13/24
Using the arrow and modifier keys will let you efficiently write and edit on your Mac without needing to take your hand off the keyboard to use a mouse or trackpad.
5/11/24

A look at some of the computers I used before I got my first Mac.

Learn How To Edit Your Pictures In Mac Photos In 5 Minutes
5/10/24
Here's a quick start guide to using the Photos app to edit your pictures. You can straighten, crop, adjust light and colors, fix problems and add filters.
5/9/24

Apple is trying to get some of the casual word game audience with additions to the News app.

How Many Mac Third-Party App Installs Work
5/8/24
New Mac users are often confused about how third-party apps from web sites are installed. After downloading, all you get it is a file that when opened just shows the app with an arrow and folder. Here's what to do next.
5/7/24

Apple announced a new iPad Pro with the M4 processor today alongside a new iPad Air 13-inch model, a new Apple Pencil with lots of new features, a MacBook-like iPad Magic Keyboard and some AI features in updated iPad Pro apps.

How To Combine Parts Of Images Using Mac Photos
5/6/24
You can take the subject of one photo and copy it onto the background of another photo using just when comes with your Mac, without ever taking the photo out of your Photos library.
5/4/24

If the data in your Messages app is taking too much space on your Mac, iPhone or in iCloud, then you should clear out old photos and videos in conversations. You can do this in the Messages apps, but also in Settings. Then be sure to save and delete photos as you get them moving forward.

How To Use Your iPhone As a Scanner For Your Mac
5/3/24
You can use your iPhone as a scanner to scan documents directly to your Mac. No need to transfer from your iPhone to your Mac afterward. You can scan right to a file, into a new Preview PDF, or into a document or email message.
5/2/24

After years of searching for a solution, I may have finally found one in Bunny.net.

How To Get File Listings As Text
5/1/24
If you need a file listing to use in a document you can get it by copying and pasting from the Finder if you know a trick. But you can also get file listings as text from the Terminal and then wrap that command into a Shortcut.
4/30/24

You can use your iPhone as a scanner to scan documents directly to your Mac. No need to transfer from your iPhone to your Mac afterward. You can scan right to a file, into a new Preview PDF, or into a document or email message.

Import Photos From Cameras and SD Cards Using the Image Capture App On Your Mac
4/29/24
If you need to get photo from your camera, an SD card, or an iPhone or iPad, but don't want them in the Photos app, you can do it with the Image Capture app that is already on your Mac.
4/27/24

The Health data on your iPhone can come from your Apple Watch or other apps. But you can also just enter data in manually, and for all sorts of different things like weight, temperature, even nutritional intake like caffeine.