Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Many Mac users have Adobe Reader on their Macs so they can read and fill out PDF files. But macOS already has a very capable PDF app named Preview. Most people will find it more than capable for all of their needs, and perhaps a little faster and convenient. If Adobe Reader is set as your default PDF app, I'll show you how to switch back to using Preview.

The context menu appears when you Control+click, right+click, or two-finger click something on a Mac. Most of the items in a context menu appear depending on what was clicked and which app you are using. But some parts of the context menu can be customized to fit your needs.

Often people ask me about duplicate photos or files when all they are seeing is two different ways of viewing the same single photo or file. For instance, albums in Photos show the same photos as the Library, and Recents and the Desktop in the Finder show files you can also see elsewhere. It is important to understand why these aren't duplicate items to avoid deleting the one and only copy of a photo or file.

If Pivot Tables in Numbers seem intimidating, watch this tutorial to see how easy they are to use. You can get a lot of information without ever needing to using functions or formulas.

Apple extended its self-service repair program to some Macs this week. This means you can get access to tools and parts to repair your own Macs. While you probably aren't interested in doing that (I'm not) it is fun to look at the PDF repair manuals you can download. They include lots of useful or just interesting information, diagrams and pictures. <a href="https://www.selfservicerepair.com/manuals" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.selfservicerepair.com/manuals</a> 

GarageBand is like a box full of musical toys for your iPad or iPhone, and it is free from Apple. Play keyboards and other instruments with your touch screen, record and alter your voice, create beats and drum tracks a variety of different ways, and so much more.

If you haven't been using the Reminders app on your Mac and other Apple devices you are missing out on a very useful tool. Learn the basics in just 5 minutes with this quick tutorial.

You can use iMovie titles to add static frame or scrolling credits to the end of your video projects. There are some tricks to being able to edit the text effectively and to add backgrounds and more.

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.