Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

By default Safari has a lot of built-in web tracking protection. What does this mean, and does it really make a difference when compared to other web browsers?

In macOS Tahoe Spotlight is more powerful than ever, with a whole mode dedicated to just search for files. Learn some powerful tips for using Spotlight file search mode.

Apple Intelligence can answer questions, and Shortcuts can rename files. You can combine these to create something that automatically renames PDF files based on their contents. Things like this that can actually do things on your devices are where we are headed with AI.

A live look at customizing folders with colors, symbols and emoji. Gary experiments live with colors and even shows a Terminal hack for using more than one character on a folder.

With LaunchPad gone in macOS Tahoe and beyond, you still have many different easy ways to uninstall apps. You can use the App Store app, System Settings, drag-and-drop to the Trash/Bin or a developer-provided uninstall method.

In macOS Tahoe Spotlight is more powerful than ever, with a whole mode dedicated to just search for files. Learn some powerful tips for using Spotlight file search mode.

Shortcuts can be triggered by action and events on your Mac. You can set this up in the Automation section of the Shortcuts app. Take a look at how to do it with five examples.

New in macOS Tahoe is the ability to change the app icons in the Dock and elsewhere to make them darker, transparent or tint them with a color of your choice. Have a look at all of the options.

With Launchpad gone in macOS Tahoe, many users just want a way to launch apps from a categorized list. One way to do that is by organizing aliases in a folder and accessing them with a Shortcut.

Learn how you can use advanced techniques to place objects exactly where you want them in apps like Pages, Keynote, Freeform, Preview and even third-party graphics and design apps.

Two new features in iOS 26 let you use your AirPods to start and stop video recording and allow you to use the AirPods microphones for audio. This works with AirPods 4, or AirPods Pro 2 and 3.

If you need to resize a photo or graphic on your iPhone, or export it into a different format or compression amount, you can now do so with the Preview app in iOS 26. In fact you can resize, crop, markup, compress and save out a file from Photos, an existing image file, or even from other apps or screenshots.

macOS Tahoe gets rid of Launchpad, which was just one way to launch apps on your Mac. You can still use Spotlight and other methods, as well as a new Spotlight Application Launcher mode. Also learn how to create a custom folder of application icons that works like Launchpad but with even more features.

Shortcuts can be triggered by action and events on your Mac. You can set this up in the Automation section of the Shortcuts app. Take a look at how to do it with five examples.

Once you have updated to iOS 26 on your iPhone, here are some new settings to check out.

Spotlight in macOS Tahoe includes a variety of special actions you can take an a special section for them. You can also create your own actions using the Shortcuts app.

You can set folder icons to use little symbols or emoji characters. But it turns out you can go beyond just the symbols offered and use any SF Symbol or character, even multiple characters!

Here's an in-depth guide to the new Spotlight Clipboard History feature in macOS Tahoe 26. With this new feature you can recall things you have copied in the past and paste them. Learn about how it works, its limitations, and get some tips and see some hidden functionality.

I had hoped that the Journal app on macOS, iOS and iPadOS could be used for things like work journals, diet records, reading logs and other things. It can, but the experience isn't smooth and it probably isn't quite ready for that yet.

A big new feature in iOS 26 is the Preview app. As Mac users already know, Preview is much more than just a way to view some files. You can also use it to fill out PDF forms, split and merge PDFs, edit images, and annotate both PDFs and images with markup tools.