Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Learn how to minimize windows and when it can be useful. See how minimizing works with Full Screen windows, Stage Manager and app switching.

There's more you can do with Google than just search the web. You can also access tools like a calculator, random number generators, weather, nutritional information and much more. You can even play a variety of games.

If you work with Mac Numbers you can use ChatGPT to get help with functions and formulas, generate sample data, clean up data and more.

Instead of using iMovie travel maps, you can create an animated travel map using any background map you have and trace a detailed route onto it. This tutorial will also teach you some basic Keynote animation techniques. You can even add a graphic or icon to follow the path.

If you need to search a site for text as you are writing, this Shortcut will cut out many steps. I use it all day long to get links to my own videos.

You can choose whether the Menu Bar on your Mac is always visible, or will hide when you aren't using it. The setting for this recognizes the difference between using a Desktop space or a Full Screen space, so it is important to understand Mission Control as well.

It is frustrating that there is no easy way to select a folder and get a list of folders and files with indentations to show which files are in which folders. But with TextEdit and a couple of Replace All commands, you can do it.

Here are some more unusual places and situations where you can use Copy and Paste on your Mac.

There's more you can do with Google than just search the web. You can also access tools like a calculator, random number generators, weather, nutritional information and much more. You can even play a variety of games.

Here are some unusual places and situations where you can use Copy and Paste.

I use the Apple Keyboard with the numeric keypad. Why? Lots of good reasons!

There is no command in the Finder that will let you create a new blank file at your current location. But you can create a Shortcut that will let you do this each time easily. The Shortcut needs to use both JavaScript and shell scripting to get the job done.

When printing from some apps it can appear that there is no way to scale the content of a document while printing. But different apps put scaling options in different places. Even when there are no scaling options, you can use other tricks to print at different sizes.

Instead of using iMovie travel maps, you can create an animated travel map using any background map you have and trace a detailed route onto it. The video will show the route being drawn onto the map. You can even add a graphic or icon to follow the path.

A new Mac feature coming to Sonoma later this year could make typing a lot easier for some of us.

While it is easy to access recent files in the Finder, it is less convenient to look at your recent folders. But by adding a Smart Folder to the left sidebar you can easily get there.

If you find a lost iPhone there are a lot of things you can do to help reunite it with its owner. But some of the advice you'll read online will lead you in the wrong direction. Learn the best way to return a lost iPhone.

The Preview app doesn't really have layers like other image editing apps. But you can kinda simulate them with some creative use of copy and paste.

You can decide which folder you start in when you create a new Finder window or add a new Finder tab. Some locations are mode useful than others. Picking the right location for you can improve your productivity.

Pie charts can represent a simple comparison between a set of values. Here are some other chart variations that you can use to also represent a simple visual comparison.