Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

It is easy to add a drawing to a note in the Notes app on an iPhone or iPad. But what about on a Mac? You'll need to add a blank image first, but once you set it up the first time it is easy to add a drawing or sketch to any note.

You can't resize images in notes, and often you just want a small image, not a full-sized photo. So here's a Shortcut that will reduce the process to a few steps.

You don't need to be an expert at photo adjustment controls to make your photos look a little better. By just using a few of the basic tools, including some that are a single click, you can improve your photos.

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.

There are many ways to convert video files from one format to another on your Mac. Often you don't even need to convert at all, but just simply change the file extension.

Center Stage works with the Apple Studio Display and when using an iPhone as a webcam. But in some situations you want to turn it off. You can, and better still you can control it manually.

There are many ways to add a line between paragraphs in Pages. You can use a shape, paragraph borders, images and more.

Seems like there are too many steps to simply AirDrop a file from your Mac. So here are three methods that can bring that down to fewer steps for those that use AirDrop often.

If your iCloud Drive space is full, then you can clear space by moving files to your local internal drive's storage or an external archive drive. Learn how to do free up space on iCloud Drive.

There are many ways to convert video files from one format to another on your Mac. Often you don't even need to convert at all, but just simply change the file extension.

There is a hidden option for some apps that allows you to move the Menu Bar below the MacBook camera notch when in Full Screen mode. In addition, you can adjust the screen resolution of your MacBook if you want to get rid of the notch completely.

A new feature in Pixelmator Pro (version 3.5.8) is the ability to edit text in PDF documents. This could be useful, depending on the type of PDF documents you deal with.

You can easily create fun photo collages using the Freeform app on your Mac. Just drag and drop images from the Photos app or files and position them as you like. You can add text and more. Then copy and paste or export to share.

You can now select non-contiguous text in Pages by holding down the Command key and selecting characters, words or paragraphs. You can then apply changes to all of the selected text or delete that text.

The best way to protect yourself from online scams is to understand how they work. Learn about these 10 common Internet scams and talk about them with your friends and family before it is too late.

If your iCloud Drive space is full, then you can clear space by moving files to your local internal drive's storage or an external archive drive. Learn how to do free up space on iCloud Drive.

To get the most from the Mac Finder you should know how to quickly sort your files in the Finder window. Learn how to do it in the various Finder views and some tips and tricks.

You can use the FORECAST function to predict values given a list of numbers. You can use this for business forecasts or just for home budgeting and other things.

By default your iPhone saves photos as HEIC files. These are compressed images, like JPEG files, but will use less space on your iPhone, Mac and iCloud. You can easily convert these to JPEG files when you need to. Your iPhone also saves video files in HEVC format.

You can use the say command in the Terminal to turn an article, report or other document into spoken text audio if you need to listen to something rather than read it.