Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

When you go to save a file it can be frustrating to find the location you want. But there are many things you can do to quickly navigate to your folders in the Save Dialog. You can also use these techniques when saving downloads in your browser.

Perhaps a crazy thing to even want to do. But I've always wanted to be able to force the Pages/Keynote shape drawing tool to use data points to draw shapes I can then save for later use. I finally achieved my weird dream using Keyboard Maestro 🤪

You Can't Select Multiple Non-Contiguous Portions Of Text In Mac Pages. But Most Of The Time People Want To Do This It Is To Apply A Style On Those Portions Of Text. Learn How To Do This More Efficiently Using Character Styles In Pages.

You have four choices when it comes to Finder views. List View, however, has several advantages which make it my go-to Finder view.

If you notice that the Menu Bar at the top of your screen is missing, it is probably because you are using an app in Full Screen mode. You can customize how this works in System Preferences. You can also use Mission Control and Spaces to have the Menu Bar present for some apps and not others.

If you are looking for something to do with your Mac when you have down time, try one of these ideas that don't involve browsing the web or using social media.

If you have several documents or windows open in the same app there are many ways to switch between these windows.

For those of us using our own vaults with 1Password, this is no longer possible with 1Password 8. Time to switch to their system, I guess, but I'm curious what others are thinking.

If you have Adobe Creative Cloud installed then every time you start your Mac the Creative Cloud app and a number of big background processes will start automatically. If you don't use Adobe apps every day, you may want to change this so none of it starts until you use your first Adobe app.

QUickTime Player is a lot more than just a simple video playback app. You can record video too, record and play audio, do some basic editing, grab frames, combine images and much more.

Learn how your Mac uses memory and makes it seem like you have more memory than you actually do by compressing and swapping memory. Learn what Memory Pressure is and how you can use this measurement to improve performance in extreme situations.

(Trying again as the video didn't work the first time) Came across this interesting free screen capture app that has some useful markup tools and a scrolling capture that could come in handy.

You can add music to your iMovie project from a file, from iMovie itself, or your Music library. Once in iMovie, you can adjust it, fade, apply effects and more. But be careful when adding music to make sure you take into account copyright.

Got my new MacBook Air. Take a look, ask me anything.

AutoFill in Safari makes it easy to fill in fields in forms on web pages with your name, email address, passwords, credit card information and other details. You can use it more effectively if you understand where the information comes from and why it sometimes doesn't work as expected.

Photos will easily mark pictures as containing people's faces, as long as they are human. But you can also manually add your pets or anything you like to the People feature manually.

There are many things you may need to remember to do before starting an online or in-person presentation on your Mac. But creating your own custom Shortcut, you can avoid forgetting to do something like quit apps, set the volume, turn on a Focus mode and change your wallpaper. You can also have it launch your presentation or website automatically.

At first glance it looks like they just moved Login Items in System Preferences/Setting. But they actually greatly improved it!

You can easily create one-page signs in Mac Pages using Page Layout mode. Add text, symbols, arrows, shapes, borders and more. Save them and reuse them by changing text later on.

In the Edit menu under Substitutions you can control some automatic behavior that happens when you type on your Mac, such as two dashes being replaced by a long dash or quotes converting to curly quotes automatically.