Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

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.

Simply opening a file will launch the default app for that file. But you can indicate that you wish to open a different app in several ways. You can also set the default app for that file or for all files of the same type.

Each person using a Mac should have their own user account. This allows everyone to have things set up the way they want, access their own iCloud Account and prevents others from accidentally deleting or changing files. Enable Fast User Switching to make it easy for more than one person to use the same Mac.

Learn a little bit of JavaScript by creating an Automator Quick Action to center the current window on your Mac. You can assign this to a keybard shortcut and also alter the script to position the window in other ways.

Use Do Not Disturb to make sure notifications don't appear on yoru screen during meetings, online presentations or when you just want to get more work done. There are a variety of ways to turn on and off Do Not Disturb, and also a variety of settings to customize it.

The cursor or pointer is a primary tool you use on your Mac to get things done. The pointer changes to show you what action is being performed. The cursor is used to show where you are acting inside of text.

I researching a potential MacMost video, I discovered there is a lot wrong with the Mac's Accessibility feature "Spoken Content." Take a look at what I found. Hopefully Apple pays some attention to this in the future. But there are still some parts that work and could be useful as it stands today.

Here are 20 tips for using the Mac Finder Sidebar, one of the primary tools you have to help you get to and organize files on your Mac.

You can make the Camera app on your iPhone take a picture using only your voice by either setting up a Shortcut or activating Voice Control.

A few weeks back I shared with you my recorded half of an interview I did for a Bangladeshi YouTuber. He posted the whole thing to his channel today if you are interested. This one you can share to anyone.

I usually don't share things like this here. But I thought this was so fun and it is making the rounds. This A Cappella ground recreates iPhone ringtones and other Apple sounds. Something to make you smile on the weekend.