Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

When you create a table of contents in Pages, it will include page numbers, but not chapter numbers. You can manually add chapter numbers to your chapter headings, but that can lead to a problem if you need to insert a chapter in the middle. If you want to automatically number the chapters, you can do it be adding a Bullets & Lists style to your chapter headings.

When you use macOS Catalina's built-in screen recording you'll get audio only from the microphone. If you want to record the audio coming out of the system and apps, you'll need to install a third-party extension. One company provides an extension for free that you can use with their software or just with macOS QuickTime screen recording.

A recent forum question asked about a chore chart with a scoring system. It is an interesting problem that can be solved many ways. I did it here with a second header row in one table, and a second table to keep score.

It is easy to set a paragraph to use a hanging indent if you know one trick. But you can go much further with different techniques such as using rulers, creating reusable style, using specific text in bullet lists, or inserting text boxes. You can also set your footnaotes and endnotes to use hanging indents which is needed for many report styles.

There is no transition in iMovie that lets you reveal video behind two horizontal black bars like you sometimes see in films. But you can easily build a black bar opening effect using a simple Keynote animation as an overlay.

In Safari you should probably not have so many tabs open that you can’t find the one you want. But if you do end up with a lot of tabs and want to organize them, you can choose Window, Arrange Tabs By and sort them alphabetically. You can choose to use the domain name of the site, or the title of the page to sort.

Apple released a new base-model iPhone today. With a low price and powerful processor, this is a great phone for anyonelooking to get an inexpensive iPhone that will last for years.

Uisng your Mac, iPhone or iPad you can chat with several other Apple users at the same time. You can use this to stay in touch with family and friends while staying at home, as long as everyone involved has Apple products.

With GarageBand on your Mac you can import audio files as samples and play them using a virtual or MIDI keyboard. The controls to do this are burried deep, so it isn't obvious how to do it. You cna save these instruments as patch files to use again.

I was curious as to how much I could customize my touch bar on my MacBook Pro. Turns out you can do quite a lot with this popular third-party app. <a href="https://folivora.ai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://folivora.ai</a> 

While there is no typewriter effect title in iMovie, you can easily add it with the help of Keynote. This can appear as text by itself anywhere you want, or you can get creative with more graphics like a search box that appears over your video.

Many Mac users use keyboard shortcuts all the time, but overlook an obvious and useful one. Learn how to jump to items in long lists and find things even when there is no way to search.

TextEdit seems like a simple text editing tool, but it actually has some pretty rich features. You can do things like set document properties, edit code, define and use styles, insert images, audio and video, and even export HTML documents.

When you use Command+Tab to switch apps, you can press tab while still holding down the Command key until you get to the app you want. While doing that, you may know that you can also press Q to quit the currently selected app. You can also press H to hide or unhide that app.

I wanted to play around with my new shotgun microphone and try making a video of a different sort. So here's the story of my time at Drexel University with my first Mac, a Macintosh SE.

If you want to get a window out of the way, you can close the window, but doing so closes the document or page without quitting the app. Quitting will get rid of all of the windows being used by that app, which will by default reappear when you launch the app again. A better option most of the time is to hide the app.

There are many important settings in Mail Preferences that you can use to customize your experience and improve productivity. Take this tour of the Mail Preferences and see which ones you should change.

So my mission was to find a way for two people to video chat that didn't involve them signing up for anything, installing any apps, and it must work on both Windows and an iPad. The solution I found was a rinky-dink site called Talky.io.

A new feature of macOS 10.15.4 and the latest versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote is the ability to collaborate using shared iCloud Drive folders. Once you share a folder, you can create documents in those folders and they are instantly ready for real-time collaboration with no additional steps. This can be used to work on a whole set of files with your team over the course of a project, or permanently.

You can now set a background color, gradient or image for sections in Pages documents. This is a new feature in the Section sidebar that makes it much easier to include a color fill or pattern behind your text.