Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Recently I've been trying to use LaunchPad instead of Spotlight, because it seems a little more reliably fast.

Apple provides a wide variety of shapes in Pages, Numbers and Keynote. You can go way beyond just filling them with a solid color. You can edit the lines of a shape, combine shapes, use gradient fills, creative borders, shadows and much more.

Hide My Email is a new privacy feature of macOS and iOS that allows you to create forwarding email addresses to give to sites, services or anyone you send email. The recipient never sees your real email address. You can use this to manage future spam email or just maintain a level of privacy by not sharing your real email address.

In Preview you can select just a portion of a PDF document. Then you can paste that into a new PDF document, another type of document, email message and more. This can be used in a variety of useful ways.

If you need to hand your iPhone to a ticket checker, cashier, security guard, or police officer to show a document or your ID, be sure to use Guided Access first, to lock the iPhone into that one app and restrict access. You can also use Guided Access to allow children to play games on your iPhone or iPad.

Here's how to compare two tables to see which rows are missing from one or the other. You can also compare two tables using multiple columns. Conditional highlighting can show you which rows don't match.

Instead of trying to use the software provided by your scanner's manufacturer, use the built-in Image Capture app on your Mac instead. You can scan documents and photos with a variety of settings and options.

I was thinking that I could take today's video about 20 places to look to clean up your Mac and turn it into a Shortcut. Then you can just run that Shortcut and it will tell you how much space is being used by these things. Here is where I'm at so far, with three of those items in the Shortcut. Here's some of that code. You can use it in the Terminal as well as in Shortcuts. I'm hoping this works out and I can turn this into a tutorial and share the final Shortcut. du -sh '~/Movies/TV/Media.localized/Home Videos' | cut -f1 du -sch '~/Movies/TV/Media.localized/Movies' '~/Movies/TV/Media.localized/Downloads-TV' | tail -n1 | cut -f1 du -sch '/Library/Application Support/GarageBand' '/Library/Application Support/Logic' '/Library/Audio/Apple Loops' '/Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index' | tail -n1 | cut -f1

If your hard disk is full and you need to clear out some space fast, here are 20 places to look. In macOS Monterey you can use the Storage Manager to clear out a lot of unneeded files, plus I'll show you some places to look in your Library folder, Applications, Photos, Documents, iCloud and more.

There are a lot of adjustments you can make to photos in the Mac Photos app, but to get started learn these 7 simple steps.

Need to learn Excel fast? This video starts from scratch with no prior experience needed. Learn how to create a basic spreadsheet, add calculations and functions, summarize data and create charts. For Mac users, but good for Windows people too.

To capture your iPhone's screen you must use two physical buttons at the same time. Then you can let it save to the Photos library, or preview it and make changes like cropping, adding text and shapes and more. You can send the result directly to another app or save it as a file instead of to Photos. You can also capture the entire length of a document or web page.

It is probably a good idea to go to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/</a> every once in a while to check on things. In particular, I don't like how they will put your name next to ads for companies when showing them to your friends.

The search feature in macOS is very deep, including the ability to search metadata in media files, dimensions of images, fonts used, file origins, and much more.

The first major update to macOS Monterey include new features like SharePlay, new sections in the TV app, the ability to rename and delete tags in Notes and Reminders, and more new features and bug fixes.

Here are some ways you can make yoru Mac look different than everyone else's. You can change the way icons look on the Desktop, customize the Dock and Menu Bar, set the accent colors and much more.

Instead of using an arrow or circle to point out an item in a photo, use shapes to mask out the rest of the image, or create an image mask from a shape for even more options. Different techniques can be animated in different ways.

When you create Quick Note in Safari in macOS Monterey it should maintain a link to that web page and allow you to return to that note the next time you visit that page. This could be useful, but the feature is a bit buggy.

So impressed by how well these AI features work in the latest version of Pixelmator Pro. Check them out.

You can use either Pages or Keynote to build a photo collage. Pages is better suited to printing and exporting PDFs. Keynote is best for creating collages to be shared online or viewed on your screen. Both apps have the same tools so building a collage is similar in either app.