Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Apple released version 12.0 of all three apps and I really wish they just would have called it 11.3. There's not much that has changed. You can now have font sizes like 12.57 pt. Numbers has a new Snapshot Copy feature. Keynote can zoom to 400%. Also all three apps have more VoiceOver support. The biggest change is modest support for the Shortcuts app. But we already could do everything before using AppleScript and JavaScript. Still, I'll probably do a regular video on using Numbers with Shortcuts soon. One thing I forgot here is this: "Pages: Publish directly to Apple Books with larger file sizes up to 2 GB." So maybe useful for some who use Pages to publish to Apple Books. I assume "directly" means that you could have done this before, just not directly from Pages? I've never tried to publish something to Apple Books. At least not since iBooks Author.

If you want to report something directly to Apple, here are 10 links that will let you send them information. You can make a suggestion, report a problem with an app or content, and much more.

Been using the new Mac Studio for two days now, and so far so good, with one big exception: ScreenFlow exports.

Learn how to properly take a screenshot, mark it up, and share it with others. Learn how to avoid three common mistakes people make when doing this and how to best share a screenshot instead of sending a large email attachment.

You can animate charts in Keynote, showing how data changes over time. If you use animated Bubble Charts in the right way, you can end up with some interesting results.

You can use the Shortcuts app on your Mac to create quick text inserts or replacements. The Shortcut can prompt for text, let you choose from a list, or include the current date and time.

I've been using the new Apple Studio Display for a few days. It is a great screen, but expensive. It is probably good for some people, but perhaps not for me.

Learn how to properly review a Pages document using change tracking and comments. Multiple people can make editing suggestions that can then be accepted, rejected or modified by the author or lead editor. But these features can also come in handy if you are writing alone.

Drag-and-drop is a basic Mac skill, but there are many advanced techniques that most users don't know about. Learn how to use drag-and-drop with multiple desktops, the App Switcher, text selections, URLs, and even between Macs with Universal Control.

Been working on this for a while now and I'm a bit nervous revealing it to anyone after all of these months. The MacMost Toolbox. hopefully eventually become a free status menu app you can get from the Mac App Store. Maybe before that, as part of a beta test. Sorry for the long video. I was shocked to see it was 18 minutes. Felt like 4 minutes when I recorded it.

If your iPhone's battery seems to run down quickly, use the Settings app to figure out which app is the culprit. You can see yoru battery use by app, by day and even by hour.

When buying an app in the App Store on the iPhone, iPad or Mac, it can be hard to judge which apps are worth it. Here are some ways to quickly assess an app based on the information shown in the App Store and elsewhere.

Many people keep their passwords in a note or a Numbers or Pages document. This is a bad idea, but not for the reason you probably think.

You can use a Chart to build a dynamic horizonal or vertical timeline in Pages. You can then easily adjust or add values to the timeline. This works for Keynote too.

What happens to a file when you download it on your iPhone? In many situations you can view the file right in Safari or Mail, but otherwise, you can find it in the Files app. You can also uncompress ZIP files, or even view the contents of a ZIP archive and extract only one file.

Using Activity Monitor you can see how much the software you are running is actually using the multiple cores in your Mac. When I tried exporting 6 videos simultaneously from ScreenFlow, I was happy to see it was making good use of all 12 cores of my Intel Mac Pro.

Besides file searches, you can use Spotlight to search for word definitions, sports scores, weather, stock prices, System Preferences, perform complex math calculations, unit conversions and much more.

The Accent and Highlight colors used in almost every app on your Mac. Each app has its own default colors. But you can override them in System Preferences to force each app to use the same colors.

Don't fall for these 5 Apple-related scams. Be careful when you get alarming emails, check carefully before buying a used Mac, don't assume everything you see on your screen is offical, and more.

Is Apple planning to come out with a new larger iMac? Or is the Mac Studio the replacement? If you were looking to buy a 27-inch iMac, what are your options now?