Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

A new feature introduced in macOS 26 and iOS 26 is the ability to post polls with iMessage. These are very simple to create and have many uses.

The toolbar at the top of Finder windows shows the current folder name and a collection of buttons. But there are a variety of hidden features and options that can come in handy.

Apple announced a new subscription bundle of apps that make their big apps Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro more accessible, bring new features to free apps like Pages, Numbers and Keynote, and places the recent acquisition Pixelmator Pro alongside them all.

Watch as I build a simple spreadsheet in Mac Numbers to track personal expenses and income. Then I'll use some pivot tables to break things down by month, category and more.

When you type quotation marks or an apostrophe on a Mac, it will automatically curl the punctuation in the right direction. This is called Smart Quotes. Learn how it works and how to get the mark you want.

You don't have to be a graphics expert to create desktop wallpaper from your photos or just using simple patterns.

Learn how to create Mac Finder aliases, some tips, and 10 ways to use them like as Desktop access to files deep in your file system, quick-filing drop zones, app collections in the Dock and more.

The new Preview App on the iPhone can be used to view and work with image files. You can mark up images, draw on them, add text, crop and convert to other file types.

Starting in macOS Tahoe, we can now choose to record just one window instead of the entire screen or a selected area. But the recording produces a large black border and doesn't take into account if the window changes size or moves.

Here are some keyboard shortcuts that you may not know that could help your productivity throughout the day.

This simple checkbox will partially protect a file or a whole folder full of files from accidental deletion or changes. But locking is not a security measure, just a gentle safeguard.

While AI services like ChatGPT, Gemini and others can be a useful tool for getting tech help online, they often give wrong answers. But they still have some advantages over human help.

Often people using the Apple Calendar app try to use colors to tag or differentiate events. However, colors are really an indicator of which calendar database the event belongs to. Learn how to use colors properly in the Calendar app.

Learn how to create Mac Finder aliases, some tips, and 10 ways to use them like as Desktop access to files deep in your file system, quick-filing drop zones, app collections in the Dock and more.

When you scan documents with your iPhone's default apps you often get a file much larger than those produced by third-party apps or using PC scanners. With a simple Shortcut you can significantly compress these kinds of PDFs without losing too much quality.

Want to view or sort by image dimensions, audio file durations or video codecs? You can do it in the Finder if you know the trick to turn on these hidden media information columns for List View.

If your Internet connection at home needs to be manually rebooted every once in a while, this cheap gadget may be able to automate the process for you. Check out the Keep Connect Router Rebooter.

When you open a file from inside an app you are prompted to select a file with a seemingly simple File Open dialog. Here are some tips to help you get to the file you want quickly and easily.