Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Turns out you can add an Up button and perhaps a lot more to the Finder windows with just a little scripting and a lot of persistence.

You can use the Shortcuts app to have your iPhone respond automatically to messages. You can choose one or more recipients and when they text you they will get a response back even if your iPhone is locked. You can customize by specifying text to look for in the original message and adding things like your location in the response.

The Info Window in the Mac Finder is a great tool, but the Inspector gives you basically the same thing but with some advantages.

If you customize the styles in a Pages, Numbers or Keynote document you can create a template from that document to easily reuse those styles again. You can also copy and paste styles from one document to another.

You can create a relatively simple Shortcut to add a timestamp to a photo. You can add other information taken from the photo's metadata as well.

There is no built-in basic function to sort a list in Pages. But you can do it without leaving Pages by using a temporary table. You can also use Apple Intelligence to sort a list, often with more complex options.

You hear about Homebrew so often online that it is interesting to know what it is and how it works, even though you probably don't need it.

Learn how to use soma basic Numbers skills to build a habit tracker. You can track habits each day, see when you have made your goal, see your best streak, and even view charts with the data.

You can use the Shortcuts app to have your iPhone respond automatically to messages.

You can save as a PDF from almost any app on your Mac through the Print dialog. But you can also use Open in Preview to create a temporary PDF and instantly view it in Preview. This has several advantages over Save As PDF.

Vibe coding is simply using a chat AI system like ChatGPT to help you code. You can vibe code without being bogged down in the details of a programming language or system. Watch as I use vibe coding to write a quick shell script for use in Shortcuts to process some text in a file.

Every time you get an email you should be checking to see if it is real. There are some very easy ways to spot of a scam which can save you time and heartache.

You can screenshot a list of numbers and then feed that to AI to get a total. But you can also do it without any AI at all.

Did you just see an article claiming there has been a massive data breach and billions of passwords were leaked? Don't panic. News sites love to publish these articles, even if the news is old and they repeat them often. Here's what you need to do to protect your accounts.

Learn how to use soma basic Numbers skills to build a habit tracker. You can track habits each day, see when you have made your goal, see your best streak, and even view charts with the data.

If you are looking for a quicker or easier way to put your Mac to sleep, here are 10 methods that could help depending on your needs. Learn how to set a keyboard shortcut, use a Hot Corner, add a sleep command to an automation, ask Siri or use Spotlight.

People with a high number for an age often tend to assume they will have trouble learning new things. But I haven't found that to be true. I think this attitude is a problem and should be examined.

Learn how to go beyond basic Keynote transitions with animations that move objects on your slides. You can use builds, movement paths, scaling, rotation and Magic Move to create a variety of effects to push your presentation to the next level.

Shortcuts in Tahoe seems to do a better job of allowing a chat environment with the on-device Apple Intelligence LLM. Experimenting with it shows how knowledgeable the LLM stored on your device can be even with no Internet connection.

Instead of having music continue past the end of your video clips, or having it end abruptly, you can easily fade out music and other audio at the end of your movie. You can also adjust the volume of audio clips making them fade in, out, cross-fade, do L-cuts and J-cuts, and also manually control the volume at any point you like.