Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

You can extract pages and parts of pages from a PDF using a variety of different techniques on your Mac in Preview. One is so easy it almost isnt worth mentioning the others.

You can use STOCKH to get the closing price for a stock, but it is tricky to get around weekends and holidays when trying to build a table and then a chart.

Learn some basic Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a document that tracks a stock portfolio. Learn to use functions, perform math operations, get column sums, format cells in various ways, use conditional highlighting, use multiple tables, build charts and more.

A new feature coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will be the ability to remove items from a web page manually. You can use this to get rid of things before reading or exporting the web page.

Before sending photos, consider the size of the attachments and what the recipient really needs. If it makes sense, use one of these techniques to shrink the photo file size down to something more appropriate.

You can add page numbers to the top or bottom of all of your pages in a Pages document. Learn how to add and modify them, skip pages, style the text and more.

The latest version of the free clipboard manager from MacMost includes a search function, the ability to snooze clip capture, and lots of new powerful Smart Clips functions.

Apple just released a beta test of a web version of Apple Maps. This allows you to use Apple Maps on non-Apple devices, which could come in handy for businesses.

When switching from Windows to Mac you'll see lots of specific tips for using and altering your Mac to make it more like Windows. But if you really want to switch, learn to do things the Mac way.

Apple released the first developer beta that includes some Apple Intelligence features. Take a look at the summary, proofreading and rewrite tools, Siri and suggested replies. More to come.

If you need to take and markup screenshots often, you don't need a third-party app. The built-in screenshot utility on your Mac will allow you to do this quickly and easily once you learn some tricks.

Learn some basic Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a document that tracks a stock portfolio.

Before you sell, give away, or recycle your Mac, you should erase it first. You should also erase any used Mac you buy before you do anything else with it.

While the Finder has a very pointer-oriented interface, you can still do most things with keyboard shortcuts. Even if you primarily use your mouse or trackpad, some of these shortcuts will help you move around faster.

If a photo is part of your Photo's App library, how do you get it out and use it as a regular file? There are three proper ways you can export a photo, none of which involve messing around inside the library file.

There are many settings and ways to customize the Dock to make it a better tool to suit your individual needs.

When looking for files, folders, apps, web pages, templates or many other things, macOS provides you with quick-access lists of recent items to make it easier to find what you want.

If you need to take and markup screenshots often, you don't need a third-party app.

If you use the Notes app to take notes while doing research or attending meetings, you should know about the Keep On Top feature that allows you to keep a Notes window floating above other windows at all times.

Markdown is a way of writing plain text documents that still accounts for some styling. You can't view Markdown very well in macOS, but a simple Shortcut will let you Quick Look Markdown files and even copy and paste from them with styles.