Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

If you need to paste a graphic image, like a logo or watermark, over a PDF, it may seem like you can't do it in Preview on your Mac. But you can if you know the proper way to copy the image from another file and bring it over to the PDF.

In my videos I show you many ways to get things done on your Mac and other Appel products. But sometimes it surprises people when they hear how I actually use them myself.

There is a built-in feature of macOS that will play white noise to help you work in a busy environment or to help you concentrate on your work.

With the release of the Apple Vision Pro just weeks away, let's take another look at what it will be like to use one using the simulator that Apple provides to developers.

Stickers allow you to quickly respond visually to a message. They can be emoji, posed Memoji, and also custom images from your own Photos. You can use Stickers in the Messages app and on photos in other apps as well.

You can create random bingo cards using two tables in Numbers on your Mac. Each card will be unique and draw from a larger list of words, numbers or phrases.

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the first Mac in 1984. Here is a timeline of all of the models produced, versions of macOS, and other milestones.

You can find old Apple technical documents, user guides and data sheets at Archive.org. Many of the earliest service guides include "exploded" drawings of the Macs that could make nice office artwork.

Pages has a pretty basic text search function, but with a few hidden tricks. TextEdit has a more robust pattern matching system and can even reorder text using replacements.

I recently started using Adobe's Enhance website tool to clean up the audio in my tutorials. I think it sounds great, but it does require some extra steps.

Learn how Control Center on your Mac works and how to customize it. You can have many controls either in the Menu Bar or in Control Center to save space. Control Center items sometimes act as switches but can often also be used to get to other settings.

Don't use your phone's camera to record your Mac's screen. Instead, use the built-in screen capture tool to make a nice clean recording.

Look back at 40 years of Mac computers.

There are a lot of hidden functions in the Mac App Switcher. You can quit and hide apps using it, switch to a specific window, and use it to drag and drop.

Here's a handy Shortcut that will grab the last file downloaded in the Downloads folder and move it to the folder where you need it.

Instead of looking at the same wallpaper on your iPhone every day, you can use Shortcuts or Focus modes to have them change automatically. You can look at specific wallpapers at specific times of the day, or have a random wallpaper or photo show each day.

Pages has a pretty basic text search function, but with a few hidden tricks. TextEdit has a more robust pattern matching system and can even reorder text using replacements.

Don't use your phone's camera to take a picture of your Mac's screen. Instead, use the built-in screen capture tool to take a clean detailed screenshot.

A new feature in macOS Sonoma is the ability to see which email a downloaded attachment came from and to reply from the file itself.

Here are some useful ways to customize your Finder toolbar with new buttons. You can add Finder commands, folders, files, and even Shortcuts that do various things.