Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Right Click on a Mac is referred to as the secondary click and is used to bring up context menus. On an Apple trackpad a two-finger click is how you usually do this, though you can customize it. There are also a variety of other ways to perform a secondary click.

With iOS 17 you'll be able to use your iPhone as a handy clock and information display while it is charging at night.

Dividing up your data among multiple tables across different sheets can make it difficult to perform calculations and organize. But by using filters or categories you can easily manage your data in a single table. You can also use Pivot Tables in some cases.

Hide My Email is a great privacy feature of Apple's iCloud+ service. But using it to sign up for sites means your ID is now unique and unusual. This can be a problem if you need to get support from that site or reset your password.

Often Mac users create a second Standard account to use every day instead of using their Admin account. Is this necessary or better?

You can ask ChatGPT to respond in a style based on a profession or a specific person, real or fictional. This usually injects some humor in the answers. But it also can be useful to tailor the answers to a knowledge level.

You can use a variety of different techniques to select multiple files in the Finder. You can use the Command or Shift keys to select files or ranges of files. You can also drag to select and use the keyboard in various ways.

While a few currency symbols can be easily typed with the default keyboard, others require special techniques. Choose which method is best for you to type things like the pound, euro, yen, rupee, shekel and more.

A new way to prevent having lots of little Apple charges to your credit card is to use the Auto Reload feature.

If you need to type common symbols like the dollar, euro or pound, you can do that by just knowing the right keys to press. But if you need to type other symbols like the rupee, won or shekel there are a variety of different techniques you can use. You can make typing them easier with character favorites or Shortcuts as well.

You can use the new Ventura Freeform tool to make quick custom folder icons. Add one of the many available shapes or import your own to have the folder stand out from others. With some extra work you can even color the folder something other than the default blue.

In Sonoma you'll be able to turn a website in to its own app. This is not just convenient, but also allows you to log into a site with different credentials since it is separate from Safari.

When you bought your Time Machine backup drive, did you opt for a solid state drive or a hard disk drive? One is better than the other when it comes to backups.

While you can't add a background color to text in Notes for traditional highlighting, you can use many other techniques to make text in notes stand out.

Looks like a new feature of Freeform in Sonoma will be the ability to import animated 3D objects.

Here are 31 useful tips that will help you get the most from the Mac Menu Bar. Learn how to find hidden items, select menus with just the keyboard, search for items, customize the right side and much more.

A new feature coming to macOS Sonoma this fall is the ability to put widgets right on the Desktop. Previously just for the Notifications Center, widgets can now been seen more often and you can click them to take actions.

Until macOS Sonoma comes out there is anther way to link from one note to another using a trick with iCloud Drive sharing. This same trick will still be useful once we have Sonoma to link to Notes from other apps and documents. You can also link to documents and files using this same trick.

The big new feature in the latest version of Numbers is something I've never heard requested before.

One of the ways experts like me know so many tips and tricks is that we are constantly exploring macOS and different apps. Here are 8 techniques you can use to learn a little bit each day.