Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Learn how to set up your Pages documents for title pages, front matter, left and right facing pages, skipped pages and much more.

You can use your iPhone's camera for more than just taking photos. Here are some other useful and interesting things you can do with the camera. Third part apps mentioned: Google, WAM: World Around Me, Star Walk 2, PeakFinder, Seeing The Invisible.

You can autofill cells in Numbers using copy and paste, a special autofill feature, and by simply adding new rows to a well-formed table. With the autofill feature, you can have values increase by 1, or using a pattern.

By default every time you create a new iMovie Project it just adds on to your one and only iMovie Library. This makes it difficult to manage and archive your iMovie projects over the years. Instead, create a new Library each time you want to start a new project.

While in Iceland last week I had one clear night and got to see the northern lights. I used both my iPhone 13 Pro and my Canon T3i to photograph them. I even took some video with the iPhone to get the movement. I learned some things after reviewing the media and wish I had a second chance to get some more. (Downloadable video below for those having trouble with the Patreon video player.)

If you want to trim some time from the beginning or end of an audio file, you can quickly and easily do it with built-in macOS apps or free Apple-made apps you can download from the App Store, or a free third-party app. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages.

Quick Look allows you to preview files in the Finder. But you can also do other things with it like rotating and editing images, trimming videos, scroll through documents and select text to copy, view multiple files as an index sheet or slideshow and more.

You have lots of options today if you would like to dictate text instead of typing on your Mac. Here I'm comparing the built-in macOS dictation, the dictation feature of Microsoft Word, and the dictation feature of Google Docs in a web browser. They all seem to produce similar results. None are perfect though, but they are getting there.

While Photos has a lot of adjustment and cropping tools, you can also use your favorite image editor directly with the Photos app. You can choose to edit the photo in an editor and have the results saved back to your library, or you can use an editing extension for even tighter integration. See examples using Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro.

Instead of using the limited title options in iMovie, you can build almost anything you want in Keynote as a presentation. Use text, transitions, builds and animations to make your title sequence. Then export as a video to use in iMovie over a background.

In Mac Mail you can group messages together by conversation. This can make it easier to see your messages, stop quoted text clutter, and allow you to mute active conversations when you don't need to participate.

There are some settings in Google Mail that make it easier for Mac Mail, or any email client, to handle a large Gmail account. Instead of downloading and caching every email in the account you can set it to only cache the most recent messages. Then you can use the web interface for Gmail to search for older messages. (Download the video below if you are having trouble with the Patreon video player above.)

There are many ways to see the battery percentage number on your iPhone with iOS 16. You can put in on your Lock Screen or Home Screen, view it in Settings which includes a detailed chart, get to it in Control Center, or have the percentage always shown in the Status Bar at the top.

Learn how to calculate dates like the first or last day of a month, the first or last day-of-week of a month, or the nth day-of-week of a month.

Take a look at how you can send out invitations to events in your Calendar, and then the invitee can respond and have that event added to their calendar. Very handy even if you aren't in a corporate environment. (Downloadable video below for those having trouble with the Patreon video player.)

If you like to use Finder tags to organize your files, check out these quick ways to assign and clear tags from selected files. You can use hidden keyboard shortcuts to do it, and also access tags in the Info window, Inspector, or though a special Tags panel.

Here are some small new features of iOS 16 for the iPhone that you may not have discovered yet.

I'm sometimes asked about why it takes a few seconds for your Mac to recognize a wrongly-typed password. But a correctly-typed password is recognized instantly. There's a good reason for that. (Downloadable alternative below if you have trouble playing the video.)

There are many better ways to use images in a Page document other than as a plain rectangle. Learn about borders, tinting, shapes, instant alpha, shadows and even using them in charts.

A new feature in iOS 16 is the ability to easily select only the subject of a photo and drag it to another app or copy and paste it. You can use this to send just the subject of a photo without the background in a message or place it in a layer of an image editing app.