Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Apple today launched three options for those that wish to bundle services like Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News and iCloud storage. The bundles will mean simplified billing instead of multiple small charges, and also a discount over paying for the services individually.

Despite Apple posting record revenue for the last quarter, profit dipped and the stock declined somewhat in after-hours trading. Services revenue also hit another new high with double-digit growth. One notable item for Mac fans is that the work-at-home situation for many drove Mac sales to a record $9 billion, up for $7 billion a year ago.

Copy and Paste on a Mac is pretty simple. But there are many advanced techniques beyond the basics. You can copy without styles, or only styles, copy and paste files, copy screenshots without saving them, copy more than one thing at a time, and even copy and paste between your Apple devices.

By using more than one text formatting or styling technique at a time, you can create title text that stands out more than just making the text large and bold. Here are 10 ideas for styling text that you can use in Pages and Keynote.

New Mac users sometimes have trouble with scrolling. You can scroll using a trackpad, mouse, the keyboard or scroll bars. Learn how and see some preferences you can change.

In today's video, I show some keyboard overlays to illustrate where the keys I'm talking about are located. I think this is helpful instead of making people hunt for them. I've been using Affinity Designer for this. I have a template I created and though it seems like it would be a lot of work to make a new keyboard image for every shortcut I mention, it really only takes seconds to set up and export. I've really gotten to like Affinity Designer. It reminds me a bit of Adobe Fireworks. I used Fireworks for a majority of my graphics needs for years. I tried to move to Photoshop afterwards, but Pixelmator made more sense. Now I think AD is best for this sort of thing. I fact I'm using it to generate graphics for a new version of my Mah Jongg game too.

In addition to keyboard shortcuts, there are hidden functions you can perform with your Mac keyboard if you know the right combination or setting. You can forward delete, bring up context menus and show hidden menu commands. You can even use the Caps Lock or second set of modifier keys for other things.

Learn how to take a series of video clips and build a fun montage video to post of social media or share with friends. In this special live episode, watch Gary experiment and build a video piece by piece.

Safari has a lot of preferences but you can start customizing how it works by focusing on these 10. Change the behavior of what happens when you open a new window or tab, click on a link, or download a file. Also learn how to reduce clutter when typing in the address field.

iMovie is Applke's free tool for combining, trimming, editing and producing video content on your iPhone. This quick tutorial will teach you how to use iMovie's main features in just 5 minutes.

A new feature in Big Sur, and also iOS 14, is the ability to assign Reminders items to a person in a shared list. So if you share a list with people on your team at work, you can then add items and assign them to individuals that are sharing that list. Or, the people on the list can assign them to themselves, so people can "take on" a task.

If you need to do a "Mail Merge" to print out personalized documents from Pages, you can do it with a simple script. A table from Numbers can be used to customize text boxes in the Pages document and then you can print them all at once.

If you need to resize a photo you can use one of these two apps to crop, resize and compress the image to create a new photo or image file. You can also apply effects and make other changes. One add costsa few dollars and the other is free with an in-app purchase to remove ads.

Going to try live-streaming today for an hour. Starting at 11:00 my time (in 15 minutes). Link: <a href="https://youtu.be/ny9z1zpSXpA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ny9z1zpSXpA</a>  Ask questions in the chat and I'll be screen sharing to demo stuff.

You can crop a photo using the tools that come with every Mac. If the photo is in the Photos app, you can use the cropping function in the editing tools there. If the photo is an independent file, you can use Preview or Markup Tools to crop it.

The shapes in Pages, Numbers and Keynote can be used to spruce up a document or presentation. You can do much more with them besides a simple color fill and border.

Adding a widget to the Home Screen on your iPhone in iOS 14 is easy, but there are many tricks you can use to get the most out of this new feature. Learn how to create and edit stacks, use the Shortcuts widget, create homogeneous widget stacks and even have a Home Screen that contains only widgets and no apps.

As expected, Apple announced the new iPhone 12 today, with a new “mini” member to the line-up. The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini are essentially the same phone, with the mini just being smaller. All four phones feature 5G connectivity and a new MagSafe connector allowing chargers, cases and other items to magnetically connect to the back of the phone.

Apple announced the iPhone 12 today which comes in four sizes, including the new "mini" size. The new phones feature 5G connectivity, a new design and a MagSafe connector on the back for chargers and cases. Apple also announced a new HomePod mini, a smaller version of its HomePod at a much lower price point.

A new feature in Photos 6.0 in macOS Big Sur is that the Retouch tool uses machine learning to remove things like blemishes. So I tried it out, comparing virtually the same retouch actions in Photos 5.0 in Catalina with Photos 6.0 in Big Sur.