Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

You can create groups in the Contacts app on your Mac and use them to quickly send emails to several people without needing to select each contact. Groups can be used for organization too, and can help in other apps like Messages and Calendar in some situations.

I have an extra step I need to do every day in making the MacMost videos. I have a great camera and a great mic, but they are never quite in sync. So I use an old-fashioned clapboard to get the audio right.

There doesn't appear to be a way to view your Mac Calendar events as a list, but it can be done if you know one trick. You can use the list to easily select items, and then copy and paste them in a variety of ways. You can also print or save a PDF list of events.

The first Webb Space Telescope astronomical images are here, and you know what that means: time to use one as your desktop wallpaper. A good place to go to get the high-resolution ones is <a href="https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images</a> .

You can set your iPhone up so it can read the text of an article, webpage or other content to you using Siri or another voice. Use this if you have a vision issue or just want to listen to some content instead of read it.

Badges are the red dots with numbers in them you see in the Dock on your Mac and over App icons on your iPhone or iPad. You can hide them on an app-by-app basis and something customize what they represent.

A new trick in Firefox is being able to log into one account on a site in one tab, and another account on the same site in another tab. Then you can open new tabs that are part of the same "container" as the previous tabs so have the same cookies and are logged in as the same user. This is very handy for anyone who uses more than one account at the same site and using a Private window in Safari is too temporary. <strong>NOTE: If you are having trouble with this video, I've included it as an attachment you can download below.</strong>

If you need to find the ranking of rows in Numbers, you can sort, use COUNTIF or use RANK. It gets a little more complex if you have to use multiple values for tie-breakers or rank within groups.

If you are looking to buy a new MacBook soon, it can be confusing to decide which one is right for you and which options to get. See this guide to deciding between the MacBook Air, the 14-Inch MacBook Pro and the 16-Inch MacBook Pro.

If you are looking to buy a new Mac soon, it can be confusing to decide which one is right for you and which options to get. See this guide to deciding between the Mac mini, iMac and Mac Studio.

Learn how to get random numbers on your Mac using the Calculator app, the Numbers app, Siri, the Terminal and a custom Shortcut.

Learn the various ways you can export files from the Photos app on your Mac. You can do a simple drag-and-drop, but you'll get more options if you use File, Export. You can also export directly to another app, or save as a PDF.

You can easily export a 60-second version of the new Keynote animated backgrounds to use in your own videos or as backgrounds for video conferencing.

There are three kinds of alignment guides in Pages. Learn how to use them to quickly align objects in word processing or page layout documents.

Ever wonder what the arrow at the top of your iPhone means? Or green dot, orange dot, padlock with a circle around it, moon, spaceship or bed mean?

You have a lot of ways to customize your Mac's Desktop. You can use a grid or even have items automatically sorted. You can change the icon and text size, show more information, set a background color, and even show images or information over the background.

If you suspect that you have some large duplicate files on your Mac, you can find them without any special software. You can use the Finder to search for files and sort them so duplicates are together. You can also use the Terminal to find duplicates with a multi-part command.

Some people have expressed disappointment that they can't use the new Mail Merge feature in Pages to print labels. But you can easily make labels without it. Here's a simple way to do it.

The Photos app gives you many ways to search through your photos. You can look by person, dates, locations, objects, titles, camera type and so much more. You can also combine these in ways to get interesting results.

These definitely aren't worth mentioning in a major video or anything, but I'm sure someone will find them useful!