Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

Messaging between iPhones with iMessage doesn't have to be just text. You can send special effects, Animoi recordings, audio, animated drawings, handwriting, stickers, and even play games. Learn how to make your conversations more fun with the tricks.

If you want to try something other than the two dictation functions in macOS, there are at least three other ways to dictate text with your Mac. If you are a Microsoft subscriber, you can use Word's built-in dictation function. Google Docs also has a built-in method if you are using Chrome as your browser. There is also another website you can use to dictate text.

If you are wearing a face mask and Face ID isn’t working, you don’t need to wait to enter your passcode. Just swipe up and immediately tap the words Face ID in the middle of the screen to bring up the keypad.

Now that Apple has updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro, it is time for many to decide which one to buy. The MacBook Air is ideal for portability while also being a great value. The 16-inch is best for anyone needing maximum power. Where does the 13-inch model fit in?

Often when you download apps from third-party web sites you are given a disk image and need to do a drag-and-drop install of the app. New Mac users are sometimes not sure how this works and may not know what to do with the disk image or try to run the app while it is still in the disk image. Learn how to get the app into your Application folder and then run it from Launchpad, Spotlight or the Dock.

Apple released a new 13-Inch MacBook Pro, completing its departure from the troubled butterfly keyboard. The new model is otherwise a minor update of the previous version, with better base storage and a new 10th-generation Intel processor on the higher-end versions.

Apple released a new 13-Inch MacBook Pro with an upgraded keyboard. The lower-end model is very similar to the previous generation, but the higher-end model features new processors. Storage and memory have been upgraded in most configurations.

You can use the Mac Photos app to highlight one color in a photo and desaturate the rest. You can also do different things with different colors. A third-party app like Pixelmator Pro can be used as an external editor to saturate a color in only part of an image.

So I happened across a bunch of cheap Wi-Fi extended gadgets at Amazon and bought the cheapest one. My hope is that this $35 extender will give me Wi-Fi in the backyard without needing to run new cables or get a whole new system. Yep. Seems to work. Pretty easy to set up too. Works with an Airport Extreme, in case you were wondering. Why didn't I get one of these earlier? The only major drawback: It looks like another network, so I have to switch to it. And that means it won't work with old-fashioned file sharing, at least not without some advanced setup, maybe. But now I can FaceTime and stream Netflix while out back! Here's a link to what I bought: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085ZK3VJY/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085ZK3VJY/</a> 

Here 5 ways to make the cursor on your mac's screen and your clicks more visible. This is handy for giving presentations or recording screen tutorials. You can use some built-in methods, or get third-part software with lots of extra functionality like the ability to show key presses.

Apple’s services revenue, driven by App Store sales, subscriptions, Apple Pay and AppleCare set a quarterly revenue record of $13.3 billion. Wearables revenue, including AirPods and the Apple Watch, brought in $6.3 billion.

YouTube videos use jump cuts and cropping to create fast-paced interesting videos from simple video recordings. You can do these editing techniques in iMovie on your Mac.

You probably know that some keyboard shortcuts are the same from app-to-app: Command+C, Command+Q, Command+A, and so on. But one common shortcut that most people don’t know is that Command+, (comma) is almost always the shortcut for the current app’s preferences.

Many Mac users wish there was a way to create a new text file in the Finder just like you can in Windows. With the help of a simple Automator service you can add this to your Mac, and even customize how it works.

Spotlight is a tool that most people just use to perform simple file searches. But you can do so much more such with it. Even file searching can be done more efficiently using a variety of tips and tricks.

I use the Camera app on my iPhone to record normal things: friends and family stuff. But when I record something for work, I go with a separate app. One reason is to get the extra features such an app usually has. A second reason is so I don't need to change my video recording settings each time I switch between business or personal video recording. A third reason is so the videos are saved separately from my Photos library and I can transfer them to my Mac when I want. The app I use is ProMovie Video Recorder + <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/promovie-recorder/id1184204602" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/promovie-recorder/id1184204602</a> 

Some advanced fonts have alternative versions of characters called glyphs that are used automatically with specific letter combinations. You can also access these special glyphs individually if you know where to look in Pages, TextEdit and Microsoft Word.

A good way to learn some basic Numbers skills is to build a simple checkbook. You can use this to keep track of your bank account balance.

You don’t have to settle for the default icon and a random color for each Reminders list in Catalina. Control+click on a list in the left sidebar and choose Get Info. Then you can click on the icon to choose a new color and graphic.

If you want to get really good at making videos with iMovie, you'll want to learn how to use the precision editor. You can adjust the start and end of clips down to the frame, and also where transitions start and end. You can also adjust audio to make the audio from one clip overlap the video in another.