You can create a cinematic text reveal using just Keynote and iMovie on your Mac. By using a shape mask in Keynote, you can place some parts of an image on top of your text and other parts behind it. You can also mask titles with a green screen to then use in iMovie on top of actual video footage.
Here are 10 simple iPhone tips. Learn how to Print As PDF on your iPhone, never miss a message, set custom vibration patterns, offload apps to save space and much more.
You can use a variety of apps to add a live clock to your Mac's desktop wallpaper background. Each app has it own style, features and settings.
Apple surprised everyone with four amazing illustrated and dynamic backgrounds in the latest beta of Big Sur. I think these are going to be a hit.
It is easy to create a custom calendar in Mac Pages. By just using one table and some text boxes and graphics, you can make a printable calendar in minutes that is exactly what you need for work or home.
Watch as I build a basic business spreadsheet live from scratch. Expenses and income will have their own tables in their own sheets, with a summary sheet that adds up each category. We'll also track items that don't have a category assigned and add a custom filter that will allow this one document to be used for multiple years.
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.
