Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

I've been playing around with the idea of using text replacements to quickly go to long URLS.

While most Mac users are familiar with using tabs in web browsers, fewer utilize them in other apps. You can use tabs in most apps to have multiple documents in one window. You can even use them in the Finder to have multiple disk locations in a single window in separate tabs.

The Mac Calendar app allows you to set custom reminders that will send you an email message, open a file or launch an application. You can also add more than one alert so you can get both a notification and use a custom alert for the same event.

You can create a personal automation in the Shortcuts app to change your iPhone settings when you launch an app, and then change them back when you exit. For example, you can increase the font size, but only for that app or a set of apps.

Learn about the various ways you can right click on a Mac. This is also called control clicking or simply bringing up a context menu. In games you may need to check the settings to figure things out.

You can create an object pass or masked transition with iMovie by using a few other free Apple apps to help. After a few minutes of work, you can get a unique transition not usually achieved with iMovie.

While looking into how you can do Spotlight searches in the Terminal, I found you can not only do them, but have them update as files change. Could be useful.

If your keyboard isn't working when you are trying to log in, there are a few things you can do, but no perfect solution. You can use another USB keyboard, but in some cases your wireless keyboard will work as a wired keyboard too. You can also set up an Accessibility function in advance to avoid the problem.

These are the answers to the most-asked Mac questions on Google. How do you take a screenshot? How do you type accent marks? How do you use F-keys? How do you copy and paste? And much more. Even experienced Mac users may learn from some extra tips.

The Dock is one of the most basic tools you'll need to learn to use a Mac. You can use it to launch apps and you can customize it to contain the apps you need. You can also put files and folders in the Dock and change how it works in System Preferences.

There is a lot of hidden functionality in the Safari browser on your Mac. Here are ten things (actually 13!) that you may not know you can do that will help you when browsing the web.

Apple provides this huge collection of symbols for developers to use, but anyone can download it and play around with these special fonts and symbols that are found throughout macOS and iOS. <a href="https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/</a> 

You can set your Desktop Picture to a variety of dymanic or static images that Apple provides. You can also use a soild color or choose from one of your own photos or an image file.

By using JavaScript in Automator you can change the value of selected cells in Numbers. But a little more coding you can place specific or random values in the cells, reorder them, insert data from the clipboard or even an Internet location. There are all sorts of ways to use code like this to do things you couldn't easily do in Numbers otherwise.

I played around with how to do pass by transitions, also called masking transitions, in Final Cut Pro. Take a look. Next, I'd like to figure out how to do it with iMovie and Keynote for those that don't have Final Cut Pro!

You can go beyond basic font changes or bold text by using advanced text options in Pages, Numbers and Keynote. You can make text stand out with spacing, baseline changes, outlines, shadows or adding a background color.

If you aren't using a third-party password manager, you should be at least using Safari Passwords. This allows you to create strong unique password for your online accounts without having to remember or type them. You can even use those password on your other Apple devices through iCloud.

Here are a variety of functions, features and tips for Mac Numbers that many Numbers users don't know about.

I stumbled upon this page at Apple's site that lists all of the variations of keyboards throughout the world. <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794</a>  So fascinating! But the page is also useful if you use multiple keyboard input sources and need a handy guide to figure out which keys map to which symbols.

If you want to see the contents of a file before opening it in an app or importing it into a document, you can use many different methods in macOS. You can use Finder icons, Gallery View, the Finder window preview area, or Quick Look.