Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

There are many things you may need to remember to do before starting an online or in-person presentation on your Mac. But creating your own custom Shortcut, you can avoid forgetting to do something like quit apps, set the volume, turn on a Focus mode and change your wallpaper. You can also have it launch your presentation or website automatically.

At first glance it looks like they just moved Login Items in System Preferences/Setting. But they actually greatly improved it!

You can easily create one-page signs in Mac Pages using Page Layout mode. Add text, symbols, arrows, shapes, borders and more. Save them and reuse them by changing text later on.

In the Edit menu under Substitutions you can control some automatic behavior that happens when you type on your Mac, such as two dashes being replaced by a long dash or quotes converting to curly quotes automatically.

Summary: AT&T international plan ✅, local mobile networks ❌, Apple Pay ✅, Apple Card ❌, Apple Maps app ✅, VPN + hotel Wi-Fi ❌, iPhone battery drain ❌, iPhone Camera ✅. All photos taken with my iPhone 13 Pro.

You can easily create a simple labels template to print a list of addresses to labels in Pages. The list can come from text or a Number spreadsheet. You can also modify pre-made labels templates to work better.

Learn how to use the Shortcuts app to make photo collages from the Photos app or files. You can also build animated GIFs for sharing, or videos.

When you open a new Finder window, it can be confusing as to why the new window is at a specific location, size and view settings. Understanding the difference between Finder windows and folder locations is key, as well as knowing the difference between browsing and opening new windows, and what is remembered by the Finder.

Sometimes you need to create PDF documents that are small enough to upload or submit with a size restriction. You can use Preview to compress the images in a PDF file, but you get better results with more control if you work with the images in the original document.

When you browse the web Safari will save data as cookies, cache and history. Learn what these are and how to control them.

Was looking for a way to colorize old photos and found out that Photoshop does this. They also have a variety of other interesting "neural" filters.

While Notes has become a robust system on the Mac, using TextEdit has some advantages such as recovering deleted information, restoring from Time Machine, and being able to store information alongside other files in a project.

You can use the Shortcuts app to make QR codes that link to web pages. Once you have a Shortcut, you can easily reuse it to share a QR code, save it as an image, or even just copy to the clipboard to paste into a document you are working on.

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Learn some Shortcuts programming by following along and building a Shortcut that adds a border and caption to a photo file and saves it as a new file.

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.