Updated video for November 2022.
Here are 10 ways you can speed up a slow Mac. There's no reason to put up with your Mac being slow. Often this is caused by an app or background process using too many resources, the lack of free hard drive space, a failing drive, or many other reasons.
If you have old Pages or Keynote documents with images in them, but have lost the original image files, you can extract them. The trick is to select the image or shape with an image in it, then go to the Format sidebar, then Image. Then drag and drop the small icon under File Info to the Desktop or a Finder window.
While it is fairly easy to do a YouTube or Facebook live broadcast from your camera, combining your screen and camera takes additional work. You can use the free OBS Studio to combine things and add additional graphics and text to create a professional live broadcast without much work.
You can go to the Terminal and use simple one-line shell scripts to get various pieces of information such as the date and time, your Internet IP address and your Wi-Fi network name. Using Automator, you can incorporate these bits of information into a simple notification that appears whenever you press a keyboard shortcut.
The AssistiveTouch button is a feature of your iPhone or iPad that gives you another way to access features usually available through a gesture, physical button or complex set of steps. You can use it to simply replace the old Home button, or access other functions when a physical control on an iPhone is inaccessible or broken.
Remember in February when I did that video on <a href="https://macmost.com/how-to-create-simple-animation-with-mac-keynote.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">simple keynote animation</a>? Or how about this week when I made a <a href="http://macmost.com/create-the-double-exposure-effect-without-photoshop.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">double exposure effect</a> image in Keynote? Well, one YouTube commenter suggested I combine them. So here it is, that same image I used in the double exposure video, but with a very long image behind it, animated horizontally. Actually, that is what I did first. Then I realized I should also have it scale from 100% to 200% so it looks like the woman's thoughts are "flying" into the scene. All done in Keynote. Source file attached.
If you are working on a project and using one folder to open and save documents all the time, you can quickly access that folder a variety of ways. You can add it to the Dock, Finder sidebar and toolbar, create keyboard shortcuts, and much more.
Learn how to create simple bar charts and line graphs from a table of data in Mac Numbers. There are many options to choose from, with all sorts of customiations you can make to the charts.
If you want to fill out web forms using just the keyboard, it is easier if you first turn on one setting. In System Preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts, look at the bottom for a checkbox marked Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls. Then you can use the tab key to move between elements in web forms, even buttons. Use Shift+tab to go backwards.
The double exposure effect is an interesting way to combine two ideas in the same image. You can create this by using tools like Photoshop. But on your Mac, there is also a way to do it using Apple's Keynote app. You can cut out an image using Instant Alpha and place another image in that space. You can then blend it with the original image.
If you want to combine photos into a collage, you can do it using Pages. By using Page Layout mode with custom page dimensions, rulers, guides, box shapes and alignment tools, you can create a grid of photos that at any size. Then you can drag and drop pictures from the Photos app into each box. You can also use borders or even build creative designs with various shapes and sizes.
While it is easy to create a keyboard shortcut for most many bar items, one seems to resist this attempt at increasing productivity. Creating a shortcut for the File, Tag... menu item seems to just not work. The problem seems to lie in the little color circles that accompany the item. You can use them to assign some favorite tags to files easily, as long as you use the cursor. But with a little trick, you can get the File, Tag... menu item to work with a keyboard shortcut. Then you can apply any tag using only the keyboard.
If you are thinking about getting an external microphone for your Mac, there are many things to consider. Most people need a bsic USB microphone and those vary in price but are easy to use. You can also connect an analog microphone. For some uses a headset is better.
There are times when you want to produce square-shaped video, such as for social media feeds. You can't do that with iMovie, but you can take video into Keynote and export it as true square video. You can zoom in to a portion of the video in the square, or include the entire width of the video with text and graphics above and below it.
The Photos app includes tools like albums and tags to help you organize your photo library. But if you like, you can skip that and just use built-in features that automatically group your photos by dates, locations, people or objects.
You can share your card from the Contacts app, but maybe you don’t want to share all of it. Go to Contacts, Preferences, vCard and enable private me card. Then use Card, Go to My Card. Then click the Edit button. Now you’ll see checkboxes on the right and can uncheck things you don’t want to export when sharing your card.
The Photos app on your Mac has a set of adjustment and editing tools. Get familiar with how these work by experimenting with them.
Instead of creating graphics in Keynote and overlaying them in iMovie, you can bring video into Keynote and overlay multiple special effects, then export a new version of the clip. You can even animate the video itself.
I had previously reported that printing with the Mimeo extension from Mac Photos worked well. Now I have tried Mpix as well. I ordered a collage poster from them and was pleased with the quality and quick shipping time. <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mpix-photo-prints/id1282488470?mt=12" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mpix-photo-prints/id1282488470?mt=12</a>
