Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Those thin keyboard covers you can get for your MacBook may look like a good idea, but they can break your MacBook. Also avoid camera covers and screen protectors.

My 2021 Shortcut that allows you to capture text from any part of the screen isn't working in macOS 14.5 as there seems to be a bug in Shortcuts concerning screen capture. Here's a temporary work-around until Apple fixes the bug.

When switch to Mac from Windows, or needing to use both, the major differences between how the similar-looking menu bars on these two operating systems is important to understand.

Apple changed the rules and now several game emulators are available in the App Store. So you can now play old Atari, Gameboy and other games on your iPhone. But why the massive day-to-day coverage at many sites?

When talking about your Mac and other Apple products it is often important to use the right terms in order to communicate and get help or discuss ideas. Learn the different between the pointer and cursor, battery life and longevity, memory and storage. Learn how to correctly identify which Mac you have and which version of the operating system it is using.

If you feel your MacBook battery drains too fast, there is probably something you can do about it.

While it is easy to sort by numerical or alphabetical values, there is no simple way to sort with a custom order like High, Medium and Low. But you can use simple SEARCH or MATCH formulas to do a custom sort if you need it.

OpenAI released a native Mac app that you can use with ChatGPT. It allows you to easily send images and ask questions using your voice.

When searching for information online you may not get your answer right away when you get to a web page. Instead of reading the whole page you can search for text within a page to quickly find what you want. Here's how to search for text on a web page on the Mac in Safari and on the iPhone.

It is easy to create presentations that combine multiple pieces of information on one slide and then use transitions to build it gradually.

If you lost your iPhone, it may have been stolen and your troubles may not be over. Because your iPhone is locked down by Apple security, you may now be contacted by a scammer looking to trick you into unlocking it for them.

When talking about your Mac and other Apple products it is often important to use the right terms in order to communicate and get help or discuss ideas.

There are a variety of ways to translate text between languages on your iPhone. You can select and translate in almost any app, including text you write. You can also translate text inside photos and spoken text in a special built-in app.

In iOS 17.5 by default your News+ subscription will include automatic downloads of the latest news articles in your feed so you can view them offline without needing to remember to download anything beforehand.

Your Mac has a built-in translation feature that works almost anywhere. You can translate text to read it, or to aid in communication. You can even translate text embedded into photos.

You don't always need a premade template. For instance, here's how easy it is to create a Pages template for a single-sided quad fold card. But you do need to consider the inner margins and how to design a nice inside to the card even though it needs to print upside down.

If the data in your Messages app is taking too much space on your Mac, iPhone or in iCloud, then you should clear out old photos and videos in conversations. You can do this in the Messages apps, but also in Settings. Then be sure to save and delete photos as you get them moving forward.

If you lost your iPhone, it may have been stolen and your troubles may not be over. Because your iPhone is locked down by Apple security, you may now be contacted by a scammer looking to trick you into unlocking it for them.

Using the arrow and modifier keys will let you efficiently write and edit on your Mac without needing to take your hand off the keyboard to use a mouse or trackpad.

A look at some of the computers I used before I got my first Mac.