Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

I no longer have an old-fashioned telephone landline. Yet, my old number and old phones still work the same way. And at a fraction of the cost. Anyone else doing this?

If you just want to print a portion of any document, you can jump from the Print Dialog to Preview very easily, select an area, crop or create a new document, and print that. You can also use this to share or save a portion of a document.

The new versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote allow you to export the document and send it directly to someone else via email, AirDrop, Messages or other methods. This saves you the steps of needing to create an export file first and then attach it.

Apple has finally released their Classical Music app for Apple Music subscribers. It looks pretty much like the Music app, but with all other genres gone and things customized to how you would look for and play classical music instead.

Here are 10 ways you can use ChatGPT to get things done or just for entertainment. Learn how to brainstorm, get book recommendations, improve something you wrote, create tables of data, plan your next trip or play a game.

You can easily mask images with basic or complex shapes in Keynote, Freeform, Pages and Numbers. You can also use multiple shapes in a mask by first uniting them. You can also use text as a mask by choosing the image as the color fill for the text.

Learn some keyboard shortcuts to speed up your Safari browsing experience.

If you need to change several image files at once, adjusting their sizes and maybe exporting in a new format, you can do it with Preview on your Mac.

I moved to a new office this week and the audio properties of this room are very different than my last. I'm working to reduce the reverb (echo) and while doing so, discovered that measuring reverb is both harder and easier than I thought.

Google Bard is their competitor to ChatGPT. Similar in many ways, one advantage to Bard is to knows what is going on in the world today, not 6 months ago.

The right side of your Mac's menu bar can get crowded with lots of menu bar icons from system settings or third-party apps. Learn how to remove some and access the same functions almost as easily.

Most Mac users know how to use Get Info or Command+i. But there are two more variations of this window that can be more useful in different situations.

Learn how to use the clipboard manager features of ClipTools. You can access a history of text you have copied to your clipboard. Plus you can paste as plain text, group paste, assign keyboard shortcuts, and more.

It is easy to accidentally send a photo or screenshot shrunk down too small to be useful to the recipient. Always check this setting before hitting Send.

The only easy options for Do Not Disturb are on, off, 1 hour and "until this evening." But with a quick and simple Shortcut you can get it to turn on and then automatically off after a specific number of minutes. You can even set it up to let Siri ask you verbally for the number.

There are many ways to post a quick video online for a few friends to see. But a lot of people try to share the file using iCloud Drive which isn't a good experience at the other end. Instead, use Photos sharing, YouTube or a sharing site.

If you need to have multiple page sizes in a single document, like vertical and horizontal pages, you must first create the different page sizes in separate documents in Pages. Then you can combine them in Preview.

You can use Conditional Highlighting to make numbers stand out in your spreadsheets. If you combine them with functions like RANK, LARGE, SMALL and more you can see useful information in your tables at a glance.

You don't need to change the font every time you open Pages. Instead you can create your own template that is set up like you want and start with that every time.

If you decide you want to turn off this useful feature, you'll find yourself looking at a very scary warning before moving forward. Find out exactly what happens when you do it.