Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Here's a quick start guide to using the Photos app to edit your pictures. You can straighten, crop, adjust light and colors, fix problems and add filters.

Apple is trying to get some of the casual word game audience with additions to the News app.

New Mac users are often confused about how third-party apps from web sites are installed. After downloading, all you get it is a file that when opened just shows the app with an arrow and folder. Here's what to do next.

Apple announced a new iPad Pro with the M4 processor today alongside a new iPad Air 13-inch model, a new Apple Pencil with lots of new features, a MacBook-like iPad Magic Keyboard and some AI features in updated iPad Pro apps.

You can take the subject of one photo and copy it onto the background of another photo using just when comes with your Mac, without ever taking the photo out of your Photos library.

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.

You can use your iPhone as a scanner to scan documents directly to your Mac. No need to transfer from your iPhone to your Mac afterward. You can scan right to a file, into a new Preview PDF, or into a document or email message.

After years of searching for a solution, I may have finally found one in Bunny.net.

If you need a file listing to use in a document you can get it by copying and pasting from the Finder if you know a trick. But you can also get file listings as text from the Terminal and then wrap that command into a Shortcut.

You can use your iPhone as a scanner to scan documents directly to your Mac. No need to transfer from your iPhone to your Mac afterward. You can scan right to a file, into a new Preview PDF, or into a document or email message.

If you need to get photo from your camera, an SD card, or an iPhone or iPad, but don't want them in the Photos app, you can do it with the Image Capture app that is already on your Mac.

The Health data on your iPhone can come from your Apple Watch or other apps. But you can also just enter data in manually, and for all sorts of different things like weight, temperature, even nutritional intake like caffeine.

It is easy to add a drawing to a note in the Notes app on an iPhone or iPad. But what about on a Mac? You'll need to add a blank image first, but once you set it up the first time it is easy to add a drawing or sketch to any note.

You can't resize images in notes, and often you just want a small image, not a full-sized photo. So here's a Shortcut that will reduce the process to a few steps.

You don't need to be an expert at photo adjustment controls to make your photos look a little better. By just using a few of the basic tools, including some that are a single click, you can improve your photos.

If you need a file listing to use in a document you can get it by copying and pasting from the Finder if you know a trick. But you can also get file listings as text from the Terminal and then wrap that command into a Shortcut.

There are many ways to convert video files from one format to another on your Mac. Often you don't even need to convert at all, but just simply change the file extension.

Center Stage works with the Apple Studio Display and when using an iPhone as a webcam. But in some situations you want to turn it off. You can, and better still you can control it manually.

There are many ways to add a line between paragraphs in Pages. You can use a shape, paragraph borders, images and more.

Seems like there are too many steps to simply AirDrop a file from your Mac. So here are three methods that can bring that down to fewer steps for those that use AirDrop often.