Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Navigating around and getting work done in the Finder can go a lot faster if you know these keyboard shortcuts.

Here are some tips to help you master the Notes app on your Mac. Learn how to add tags, link to other notes, resize images, highlight text and much more.

If you want to focus on a single task to get as much work done as possible, you can use a variety of techniques on your Mac to help.

Learn some powerful techniques to help you master Keynote. You can easily add animation to your presentations, as well as live video, dynamic backgrounds, animated charts and more.

Here's a Numbers document that lets you track a stock portfolio based on individual transactions and over long periods of time.

Learn some useful tips for using Numbers on your Mac. Discover ways to autocomplete, highlight, style, select and calculate.

There are a ton of special effects you can use in Pixelmator Pro on your Mac. It is fun to experiment with them and learn some graphics skills that could come in handy.

Here are some tips to help you take your Pages skills to the next level.

If you need to figure out which items in your Mac Photos Library are taking up the most space, you can't do it in the Photos app. But you can create a simple Shortcut.

Apple products are expensive, but you can often save a little buy buying refurbished items, using educational discounts, looking for sales at third-party sites, and using other money-saving techniques.

Here's one way to blur the background of a photo even if you don't have a third-party image editing tool.

Minimizing windows in macOS is a common way to deal with Desktop clutter. But many long-time Mac users instead use techniques like app hiding, quitting apps, multiple Desktop Spaces and more instead.

In 2020 I wrote a post here at Patreon listing 8 "crazy" ideas I had that I wish Apple would implement for Macs. I was shocked to stumble upon it just now and see that 5 out of the 8 have come true! So maybe I should list some more crazy ideas that I can check back on in 5 years.

You can use Pixelmator Pro to work with photo backgrounds to remove them, replace them with another photo, or blur the background without changing the subject in the foreground.

Apple products are expensive, but you can often save a little buy buying refurbished items, using educational discounts, looking for sales at third-party sites, and using other money-saving techniques.

If you switch off Bluetooth you may find you have no way to turn it back on now that your mouse is disconnected. Here are several ways to switch it back on without a pointing device.

Check out the official online museum of Steve Jobs and download a free ebook.

Pixelmator Pro is a popular image editing tool for Macs, just acquired by Apple. It is a powerful, but easy-to-use, Photoshop alternative.

Learn how you can use Automator to create useful apps that can then be put in the Finder toolbar for easy access.

Photo Booth is the Camera app for your Mac. You can use it to take pictures and record videos from your Mac's webcam. It also includes a variety of special effects and hidden features.