Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Learn how to use Mission Control on your Mac to have multiple Desktops, also called Spaces, that make it seem like you have more than one display.

I checked out OwlOCR from the Mac App Store and I was impressed. I have no need for OCR (getting text from scanned documents or photos) but if I did, I wouldn't hesitate to use this app for that.

Check out some features of the Maps app on your Mac that you may not know about.

Learn how to search for files in the Finder. You can simply search for words in the names or contents of files, or perform more complex searches in specific locations and for dates, file types and other criteria. Lots of advanced tips too.

It is usually about 12 hours after the snow stops that I remember to set up iPhones to take time lapses of snowstorms. But this time I remembered 12 hours <strong>before</strong>! I set up an old iPhone 7 at the back of the house, and an old iPhone 7 Plus at the front. Would have loved to use my current iPhone, but I couldn't be without it for that long. This is why I sometimes keep old iPhone instead of reselling or recycling them. So here are the two videos, combined. They both are just using the standard Time Lapse setting in the iPhone Camera app. Nothing special. No tricks or filters. You can see the reflections of the TV and lights in one of them. In the other the window gets fogged up. Actually the whole window was fogged up most of the time, but the heat of the iPhone cleared a spot most of the time. Neat how that worked out. And if you look at the second one closely, you can see how many time I shoveled, and there are even some frames that include me in them.

Here are some settings you may want to check out if you are concerned about security on your Mac. Not all of these are necessary, but you may want to consider them.

Your Downloads folder is the default location for browser file downloads. Learn how this relates to the Downloads folder in the Dock and the Download icon in Safari. If you don't maintain your Downloads folder it will eventually become filled with files taking up lots of space on your drive.

With a quick keyboard shortcut you can bring up Spotlight Search and look for files, launch applications, get various kinds of information. People use Spotlight Search in a variety of different ways.

I had to compose an image for a thumbnail today. So I turned on the camera and screen recording so you can see what I did. It is a pretty basic example using Pixelmator Pro.

You can share photos online using the Photos app on your Mac and iCloud. Others can view it on a public website on in their Photos app. You can also make the album private and allow others to add photos and comments to the album.

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.