Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Universal Control is a new feature of macOS 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4 that lets you control all of the Macs and iPads on your desk with one keyboard and mouse or trackpad. You can even drag-and-drop and copy and paste between devices.

This is a tiny new feature just for the iPad. But I love it. You can go into Settings, Notes, and set a drag-from-the-corner option to either Quick Note or Screenshot. Either is good, but this makes it so easy to grab the screen and mark it up and share it. Better yet, you can use Live Text to grab text from just about anything.

Apple will be including new smileys, hand gestures, symbols and more with iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4 and macOS 12.3. Check them out and learn what it could mean when someone sends one to you.

The new macOS 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4 finally gives us Universal Control. Watch me test it with my Mac Pro, iPad mini and MacBook Pro. Works great! (FYI -- this is also a test of Patreon's new video hosting system. So this video isn't hosted by Vimeo, YouTube or even MacMost. It is hosted directly on Patreon.)

Apps use a lot of space on your drive. If there are some apps you rarely use you can always uninstall them, knowing that it is fairly easy to reinstall them when you need them.

While it is easy to Command+z on a computer to undo, it isn't obvious how to undo on an iPhone. But there are actually 5 methods including a set of tap gestures, and some apps include an undo button.

Every Mac user hears about the Terminal app from time-to-time. What is the Terminal and do you need to know how to use it? Take a quick look at the Terminal, how it works and why some Mac users need it, but most do not.

I made this chart that I think reveals some things about how Apple sees its Mac product line and what it could be planning (or not) in the near future. I've attached the Numbers spreadsheet if anyone wants to see the data I generated this from.

Your Mac comes with all sorts of fun hidden things you can try. Capture funny photos and videos of yourself, play drums, listen to radio stations from around the world, lose at chess, and much more.

This is the first new Mac in years! And a feature-rich display that is well-priced! Very exciting day in the Mac world. Here's what I think about these two new products. And you can watch me agonize over whether to buy them when my Mac Pro isn't that old yet.

Apple announced it first new Mac in years today, the Mac Studio featuring a new M1 Ultra processor. Alongside it, they announced the 5K Studio Display, a new iPad Air with the M1 chip, and a new iPhone SE.

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.