MacMost: Patreon Video

4/29/23

You can type Numbers formulas without your mouse or trackpad if you know how to use the Option key to select cells.

4/25/23

Here's a rundown of so many ways you can switch between windows and apps and why each one has its advantages and disadvantages. I even go to a third-party app that many people use just to get an highly customizable solution.

4/23/23

Here how I use drag-and-drop and a click to make it easier to work with save dialogs every day.

4/19/23

Part of my "job" is to check the YouTube comments each day and try to keep up. This can take a lot of time and energy. Here's a sample of what it is like. This includes plenty of bits of info and tips as well.

4/19/23

Take a look at my new office and all of the equipment I use to make the MacMost videos.

4/11/23

A handy link hidden in macOS gives you quick access to the tech specs for your Mac model. You can also find out a lot with the handy and free Mactracker app.

4/8/23

iPadOS 16 was supposed to add the ability to use your Apple Pencil and Scribble to "draw" emoji. Or was it? Could be the feature is just something much simpler.

4/4/23

I no longer have an old-fashioned telephone landline. Yet, my old number and old phones still work the same way. And at a fraction of the cost. Anyone else doing this?

4/1/23

Apple has finally released their Classical Music app for Apple Music subscribers. It looks pretty much like the Music app, but with all other genres gone and things customized to how you would look for and play classical music instead.

3/27/23

I moved to a new office this week and the audio properties of this room are very different than my last. I'm working to reduce the reverb (echo) and while doing so, discovered that measuring reverb is both harder and easier than I thought.

3/24/23

Google Bard is their competitor to ChatGPT. Similar in many ways, one advantage to Bard is to knows what is going on in the world today, not 6 months ago.

3/20/23

The only easy options for Do Not Disturb are on, off, 1 hour and "until this evening." But with a quick and simple Shortcut you can get it to turn on and then automatically off after a specific number of minutes. You can even set it up to let Siri ask you verbally for the number.

3/18/23

There are many ways to post a quick video online for a few friends to see. But a lot of people try to share the file using iCloud Drive which isn't a good experience at the other end. Instead, use Photos sharing, YouTube or a sharing site.

3/13/23

If you use the Cube animation just right in Keynote you can make it look like your photos are on an actual physical cube.

3/6/23

While tabs are heavily adopted in web browsers, a lot of people still don't realize how useful they can be elsewhere. For years I have used a single Finder window with multiple tabs instead of multiple Finder windows.

3/3/23

The easy way to make sure you are using an Emoji character right is to just search for that character on the web. You can make a Shortcut to do this for you with a selected emoji.

2/27/23

Seems like I can't post much on NextDoor or CraigsList without at least one scammer trying to pull one of these tricks. Fortunately I know all about them so they are just an annoyance to me. But I'm worried that so many people are becoming victims.

2/24/23

This one little feature of Keyboard Maestro makes so many things possible!

2/20/23

If you need to securely erase something from a PDF before sending it along to someone else. this is the tool for you.

2/17/23

If you have Windows friends that like to comment about you using a Mac, you have probably heard many of these. I break them down into what is true or not.