If you know where to look you can find the videos that are used for macOS Sonoma screen savers. But the format won't work as a background in Zoom. However, you can convert it to a format that does work pretty easily.
You can take the serial number from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, AirPods and more and plug that number into Apple's special web page to find out when you bought it.
Here are several ways to share a playlist as an Apple Music link, a list of songs in text, or something you can transport to other streaming services.
You can refer from one table to another across slides in Keynote. This allows you to build presentations where one slide holds all the text presented on other slides.
You can use ChatGPT along with Dall-E to create unique artwork based on a description. This can be used to make art for presentations, for example.
You can use drag-and-drop to create links to email messages for use in Reminders, Notes, Calendar and other documents.
A recent article featured 28 third-party Mac apps that will supposedly make your life easier. But will they? I react to the list.
Apple announced the next generation of its Apple Silicon processors. This new M3 chip will be available in new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros and an updated 24-Inch iMac.
Since you can both Mail Merge and export as images now in Pages, this means you can use Pages as a bulk image generator. Need to create 400 graphics with quotes? No problem.
This new version lets you do more with the Always-On feature, fixes being able to use Ringtones like before, and adds favoriting to the Music app.
You can now buy iCloud Storage plans up to 12TB, or even 14TB if you know a trick. Which plan is right for you and how does this compare to other cloud services?
Private browsing allows you to log into multiple accounts at sites and also provides some privacy protections while browsing the web. Sonoma has some new tricks.
A new feature in Pixelmator Pro lets you import PDF files with layer support. So you can then go in and hide layers or even change things about each layer. You can use this to grab parts of PDF files or remove text and so on.
Apple updated the iCloud.com website with new features to match some of the things found in macOS Ventura and Sonoma.
When my new iPhone 15 Pro Max refused to work with my car's wired CarPlay, I discovered that it is fairly easy and inexpensive to add a gadget that gives you wireless CarPlay.
The Spotlight Menu adds some handy new features in Sonoma, including the ability to add contacts and calendar events, search for objects in videos, and switch Focus modes.
Got my iPhone 15 Pro Max and it is a good phone. However I have one major problem and a couple of annoyances. Hard to be really excited about it because of that.
If you find the blinking text cursor distracting, you can turn it off using some hidden settings on your Mac.
In macOS Sonoma, Freeform has two improvements that make it easier to quickly create large diagrams or flowcharts. You can turn on a connection lines mode to quickly connect a lot of items with lines. You can also change a shape once it has been placed.
macOS Sonoma and iOS 17 allow you to add links from notes to notes in the Notes app. This lets you basically create little mini "wikis" in Notes. Better still, I found you can do things like share these notes with others and the links still work, mix in links to other things, and use these links to create links INTO Notes from the Desktop or other types of documents.
