Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

A new feature in Keynote lets you easily place an animated dynamic background behind your slides. You can customize them with your own colors, sizes and movement.

A new feature in Pages 12.1 is the ability to create envelopes, letters, invitations and other things by merging address data from the Contacts app or a Numbers spreadsheet.

Here are some more new features coming to macOS with Ventura this fall, including Photo duplicate finder, the Weather app, Live Text in video and more.

Does Time Machine backup all of your files when you are using iCloud Drive? The answer depends on whether you are using the Optimize Mac Storage function. But even with it on, chances are you are well protected.

Take a look at some of the new features coming to macOS with Ventura this fall, including Live Captions, the Clock app, new Spotlight features and more.

Came up with this idea to walk through the Denver Botanic Gardens and see how well my iPhone identified all of the different plants. It was interesting because the labels on the plants let me know if my iPhone got them right. But it must have been hard for it, seeing these plants sometimes in the wrong part of the world!

If the date and time in the top right corner of your Mac's screen is gray or dimmed, it is because you are using Do Not Disturb or some other Focus mode. Learn how to turn it off if you have turned it on accidentally, and find out how you can keep the date and time as black text when a Focus mode is on.

Stage Manager is a new multitasking feature for macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16. Learn how it works and all of the options. See how it operates with app switching, multiple desktops and the Dock.

There will be lots of new features in the Notes and Reminders apps in macOS Venture this fall. See how you'll be able to filter and use Smart Folders in Notes, create and reuse templates in Reminders and more.

You can create daily reminders to do things like take pills using either the Reminders app or the Calendars app. Figure out which one is best for you.

The Mail app in macOS Ventura is gainign the ability to undo send, schedule an email, remind you about an email later, and also improved search. In Messages, you will be able to delete a message you sent and edit as well, at least for iMessage.

This is definitely something I do not recommend, but if anyone is curious how to do it anyway... I used the free UTM virtualization app to install Ventura Beta 1 as a virtual machine on my Mac Studio. Had to do it with Monterey 12.5 Beta 2 first, then update. But eventually it worked. One note: You cannot use iCloud or the App Store inside a virtual machine, so this has limited use beyond testing apps or doing some tutorials.

The magnifier on your iPhone is a hidden app that you can use to read small text on medicine, food items, menus and more. You can also temporarily save images so you don't need to keep the iPhone pointed at the item.

Watch as I investigate some new macOS Ventura stuff like Live Captions, the new Clock and Weather apps, dictation changes and more. Kind of long and rambling, but I wanted to share some of these things with you before I had time to do proper MacMost videos on them.

Accidents happen and things get deleted. Here are several ways you can get back deleted text, files and other items on your Mac.

System Preferences is now System Settings with categories listed on the left, settings in a list on the right, and new options and arrangements throughout.

You can get the sum, average and perform other calculations on selected cells without needing to create a formula in another cell. The Quick Calculations appear at the bottom of the Numbers window whenever you have more than one cell selected. They also can be dragged-and-dropped to create permanent formulas and will obey filters.

Some interesting things today. Here is what caught my eye most. FYI: Downloading and installing Ventura now. Will be able to share some things by the end of the week I'm sure.

Apple announced the new M2 processor and a new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro at today's WWDC keynote event. They also gave us a preview of a long list of new features in macOS 13 "Ventura" and iOS 16 and iPad OS 16. Here's what caught my eye.

In this special live video I look at many different ways to use your Mac keyboard to control everything. Learn how to launch apps, select text, manage your files, and so much more.