Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Ever want an extra set of buttons to control your Mac? Add single-press buttons to launch apps or do whatever you want. You don't need to get an expensive peripheral. A cheap extra keyboard or keypad will work if you also use a third-party keyboard tool to configure it.

A new feature of Freeform will make it a nice presentation tool, though one very different from Keynote.

If you need to rotate, trim, extract a frame or text from a video or audio file on a Mac, you don't need to even open an app. You can do all of these things and more just using the Finder and macOS.

If a photo is part of your Photo's App library, how do you get it out and use it as a regular file?

If you need to rotate, trim, convert or just view some images on a Mac, you don't need to use any app at all. You can do these and more using just the tools in the Finder and macOS.

You can use a few extra keys with the App Switch to hide and quit apps, and even reveal a minimized window.

If you have a lot of notes in the Notes app you may want to try one or more of these techniques to organize them. You can use sorting, folders, tags, smart folders, links and other techniques.

New sections on the Apple web site aim to help people choose their next Mac, and also easily find documentation for Apple products.

Learn some Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a simple retirement planning table and chart. Learn how to use basic formulas to calculate how savings will grow with contributions and interest each year.

Ever want an extra set of buttons to control your Mac? Add single-press buttons to launch apps or do whatever you want.

What do you do if someone sends you a Microsoft Word document, but you don't use Word on your Mac? You've got several options for viewing these documents, copying text from them, and even editing and saving in Word format with needing to buy anything.

A handy Terminal application lets you convert from Word and a variety of other formats to text files and do a variety of other things with documents.

You can use the News app as a customized article feed only from sources you want to see. So instead of reading about world news, politics or finance, you can make it your tech news, science news or entertainment news app.

Turns out there is a way for Apple to prefer us to speak or write keyboard shortcuts: Control, Option, Shift, Command. I'll try to follow this from now on.

You can rename multiple files using the Finder's hidden Batch Rename tool. You can change matching text in all file names, or add an index number to each file's name.

Learn some Numbers spreadsheet skills by building a simple retirement planning table and chart. Learn how to use basic formulas to calculate how savings will grow with contributions and interest each year.

Apps like Pages, Numbers and Notes use specific colors for selected items and highlights. This is called the Accent Color. You can override the accent colors in these apps with a system-wide accent color setting.

Here is a handy technique you can use to add files to the Dock for easy access even if the files are located in different folders.

Starting with macOS Sonoma you will see an indicator under the text cursor when you have Caps Lock turned, are using dictation, or have just switch keyboard input types. Here's more about this and how you can turn it off if you really want to.

The second beta of macOS Sequoia gives us a preview of how iPhone Mirroring will work. This will allow you to see and work with your iPhone as if it is a window on your Mac's screen.