Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Learn how to use the Table Of Contents function in Mac Pages. This can automatically grab the headings from your Word Processing document body text and place them in a formatted table of contents with page numbers. The table of contents will update as you edit your document, and will be clickable in PDF exports.

If you have trouble typing quickly on your iPhone, maybe you haven't tried some of the other options available. Instead of typing each letter, you can use predictive text and swiping to pick up the pace. Or, you can just dictate. The best way is probably to combine these methods as needed.

Your Mac can speak announcements, read selected text out loud and repeat back to you what you type. Check out these Accessibility features can be useful to anyone.

The Ken Burns effects adds movement to your still images in your video projects. But picking a start and end crop area inside the photo, iMovie will move the photo over the duration of the clip. You can use more then one Ken Burns effect in consecutive clips in creative ways.

When dealing with image files on your Mac, it is useful to know the difference between JPEG and GIF files, what HEIC or HEIF files are, what RAW means, and when to use a PNG file.

Setting up email signatures in Mac Mail can be confusing as signatures you create may not seem to be available after you create them. Learn how to create and manage your signatures, set default signatures, and choose alternatives.

The Files app on your iPhone or iPad is like the Finder on a Mac. You can use it to find, open, and organize your files. You can also preview documents and perform other functions. If you are looking to get work done on your iPhone or iPad, it is important that you know your way around the Files app.

Cloud-based games are the future. And You can play on a Mac just as easily as you can play on a PC. Basically, you are just streaming gameplay like you stream Netflix. I tried out Nvidia's service and played some games. Works great, as you can see. There will be a lot more gaming in my future.

There are many ways to move and resize windows on a Mac without requiring third-party apps. Learn how to set up your windows like you want them, and even a method for saving windows positions.

Navigating around on your Mac while you get things done can be tricky. But you have a wide variety of tools to help you, like Mission Control, the App Switcher, the Dock and App Expose. You can control some of these with the pointer, and others with the keyboard.

I worked on something to help me with a daily task, and I thought I would share it. I know regular expressions are pretty technical, but I hope some of you find this interesting anyway. Here's the JavaScript for the Shortcut, and the website is: <a href="https://regex101.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://regex101.com</a>  <blockquote><strong>function run(input, parameters) {</strong></blockquote><blockquote><strong> var str = String(input[0]);</strong></blockquote><blockquote><strong> str = str.replace( /(.*) ((dd)s)/gm , `00:$2 $1`);</strong></blockquote><blockquote><strong> str = str.replace( /(.*) ((d)m (dd)s)/gm , `0$2:$3 $1`);</strong></blockquote><blockquote><strong> str = str.replace( /(.*) ((d)m (d)s)/gm , `0$2:0$3 $1`);</strong></blockquote><blockquote><strong> return "00:00 Intron"+str;</strong></blockquote><blockquote><strong>}</strong></blockquote>

You can use QuickTime Player to select a portion of a long video and save only that portion to a smaller file. This comes in handy when you want to only use a small section of a video in iMovie or Final Cut Pro.

The Color Picker tool appears in many Apple Mac apps and third-party apps. You can save a color you want to use again with the color chip slots at the bottom. You can use them in any app where you can bring up the color picker.

Here is a one-page PDF that you can print with quick how-to tips for macOS. These are answers to some of the most commonly-asked questions from Mac users. The descriptions are very short and meant to quickly guide you to a solution, rather than provide a detailed step-by-step explanation.

You can build a simple Shortcut to access the things you use your iPhone for the most. Then you can use back tap, a Home screen icon or Siri to activate it and choose the function. Great for productivity or for helping someone who needs easier access to some things.

There are many different types of desktop backgrounds, also called wallpapers, you can use on your Mac. Dynamic backgrounds change throughout the day, Light and Dark backgrounds switch between two versions, you can also choose a solid color, Apple's pictures, your own, or a whole set of pictures and rotate between them.

When you save a file, the dialog that appears allows you to choose the name and location of the new file. There's a lot of hidden functionality in the File Save dialog that you can use to improve your productivity.

I recently needed to generate some random time values in Numbers that included both a random date, and a random time of day. It isn't immediately obvious how to do this, so I thought I'd share what I came up with. Here's the function: =DATE(RANDBETWEEN(2000,2021),RANDBETWEEN(1,12),RANDBETWEEN(1,28))+DURATION(0,0,RANDBETWEEN(8,20),RANDBETWEEN(0,59),0,0)

When replying to an email message, don't just quote the entire message and write a response at the top or the bottom. Instead quote the previous message thoughtfully, pay attention to details, and create a better result.

The story of a lost (stolen?) iPhone and how the AppleCare+ Theft &amp; Loss protection works. Also, about some weird things that happened after the iPhone disappeared.