MacMost: MacMost Now

To celebrate the 3,000th episode of MacMost, here are the anwers to some of the questions I get the most often. Learn how to take a screenshot, maximize a window, cut and paste files and much more.

You don't need a third-party app to crop video on your Mac. But neither QuickTime Player nor iMovie will do it either. Here's how to use the built-in Photos app to actually crop your video and export a new version.

Take a look at the advantages to using the three main Finder views: Icon, List and Column. What are the reasons you may choose one over the other?

Here are the simplest ways to do some common tasks on your Mac like renaming files, launching apps, taking screenshots and more.

If the Finder's batch rename tool can't do what you want, you can always create your own complex file renaming scripts using the Shortcuts app and regular expressions.

You can use the field at the top of the Safari window to do more than just type a website address or start a web search. You can also use it to search your bookmarks or history, switch to tabs and more.

Right Click on a Mac is referred to as the secondary click and is used to bring up context menus. On an Apple trackpad a two-finger click is how you usually do this, though you can customize it. There are also a variety of other ways to perform a secondary click.

Dividing up your data among multiple tables across different sheets can make it difficult to perform calculations and organize. But by using filters or categories you can easily manage your data in a single table. You can also use Pivot Tables in some cases.

Hide My Email is a great privacy feature of Apple's iCloud+ service. But using it to sign up for sites means your ID is now unique and unusual. This can be a problem if you need to get support from that site or reset your password.

You can ask ChatGPT to respond in a style based on a profession or a specific person, real or fictional. This usually injects some humor in the answers. But it also can be useful to tailor the answers to a knowledge level.

You can use a variety of different techniques to select multiple files in the Finder. You can use the Command or Shift keys to select files or ranges of files. You can also drag to select and use the keyboard in various ways.

While a few currency symbols can be easily typed with the default keyboard, others require special techniques. Choose which method is best for you to type things like the pound, euro, yen, rupee, shekel and more.

If you need to type common symbols like the dollar, euro or pound, you can do that by just knowing the right keys to press. But if you need to type other symbols like the rupee, won or shekel there are a variety of different techniques you can use. You can make typing them easier with character favorites or Shortcuts as well.

You can use the new Ventura Freeform tool to make quick custom folder icons. Add one of the many available shapes or import your own to have the folder stand out from others. With some extra work you can even color the folder something other than the default blue.

When you bought your Time Machine backup drive, did you opt for a solid state drive or a hard disk drive? One is better than the other when it comes to backups.

While you can't add a background color to text in Notes for traditional highlighting, you can use many other techniques to make text in notes stand out.

Here are 31 useful tips that will help you get the most from the Mac Menu Bar. Learn how to find hidden items, select menus with just the keyboard, search for items, customize the right side and much more.

A new feature coming to macOS Sonoma this fall is the ability to put widgets right on the Desktop. Previously just for the Notifications Center, widgets can now been seen more often and you can click them to take actions.

Until macOS Sonoma comes out there is anther way to link from one note to another using a trick with iCloud Drive sharing. This same trick will still be useful once we have Sonoma to link to Notes from other apps and documents. You can also link to documents and files using this same trick.

One of the ways experts like me know so many tips and tricks is that we are constantly exploring macOS and different apps. Here are 8 techniques you can use to learn a little bit each day.