MacMost: Patreon Video

Got my new MacBook Air. Take a look, ask me anything.

At first glance it looks like they just moved Login Items in System Preferences/Setting. But they actually greatly improved it!

Summary: AT&T international plan ✅, local mobile networks ❌, Apple Pay ✅, Apple Card ❌, Apple Maps app ✅, VPN + hotel Wi-Fi ❌, iPhone battery drain ❌, iPhone Camera ✅. All photos taken with my iPhone 13 Pro.

Was looking for a way to colorize old photos and found out that Photoshop does this. They also have a variety of other interesting "neural" filters.

Here are links to all of the items I mention. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08YJLMQGD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=clevermedia&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">USB C Charger TECKNET 65W PD 3.0 GaN Charger Type C Foldable Adapter with 3-Port Fast Wall Charger </a>  <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LZM5F1D/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=clevermedia&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Yootech Magnetic Wireless Charger,5ft Charging Cable with Type C&amp;USB A</a>  <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZFVYNRQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=clevermedia&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NEWDERY Charger for Apple Watch Portable iWatch USB Wireless Charger</a>  <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09CTFBF7N/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=clevermedia&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">4 Pack Short iPhone Charger Cable 1ft Power Bank Cable</a> 

I have an extra step I need to do every day in making the MacMost videos. I have a great camera and a great mic, but they are never quite in sync. So I use an old-fashioned clapboard to get the audio right.

The first Webb Space Telescope astronomical images are here, and you know what that means: time to use one as your desktop wallpaper. A good place to go to get the high-resolution ones is <a href="https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images</a> .

A new trick in Firefox is being able to log into one account on a site in one tab, and another account on the same site in another tab. Then you can open new tabs that are part of the same "container" as the previous tabs so have the same cookies and are logged in as the same user. This is very handy for anyone who uses more than one account at the same site and using a Private window in Safari is too temporary. <strong>NOTE: If you are having trouble with this video, I've included it as an attachment you can download below.</strong>

You can easily export a 60-second version of the new Keynote animated backgrounds to use in your own videos or as backgrounds for video conferencing.

Some people have expressed disappointment that they can't use the new Mail Merge feature in Pages to print labels. But you can easily make labels without it. Here's a simple way to do it.

These definitely aren't worth mentioning in a major video or anything, but I'm sure someone will find them useful!

Came up with this idea to walk through the Denver Botanic Gardens and see how well my iPhone identified all of the different plants. It was interesting because the labels on the plants let me know if my iPhone got them right. But it must have been hard for it, seeing these plants sometimes in the wrong part of the world!

This is definitely something I do not recommend, but if anyone is curious how to do it anyway... I used the free UTM virtualization app to install Ventura Beta 1 as a virtual machine on my Mac Studio. Had to do it with Monterey 12.5 Beta 2 first, then update. But eventually it worked. One note: You cannot use iCloud or the App Store inside a virtual machine, so this has limited use beyond testing apps or doing some tutorials.

Watch as I investigate some new macOS Ventura stuff like Live Captions, the new Clock and Weather apps, dictation changes and more. Kind of long and rambling, but I wanted to share some of these things with you before I had time to do proper MacMost videos on them.

Some interesting things today. Here is what caught my eye most. FYI: Downloading and installing Ventura now. Will be able to share some things by the end of the week I'm sure.

Follow me down a rabbit hole as I look at how to combine Shortcuts, a Terminal command, a shell script and the crontab on your Mac to set up a text messages to be send in the future. You may not be interested in the end result here, but there's a lot to learn along the way!

Got the new firmware update for the Studio Display. See how the camera shoots video now. Also, I talk about needing to reboot the Studio Display due to sound issues.

My experiments with a MIDI keyboard to help productivity are paying off now thanks to Keyboard Maestro. Turns out no special MIDI drivers or software are needed at KM can do all I need and more all by itself. Keyboard Maestro: <a href="http://keyboardmaestro.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://keyboardmaestro.com</a>  AKAI MPK mini: <a href="https://www.akaipro.com/mpk-mini-mkii" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.akaipro.com/mpk-mini-mkii</a> 

A hear a lot of people opting to get a small drive in their next Mac, and then using an external SSD to put all of their "stuff." The reason is to save money as Apple drives are so much more expensive than third-party externals. But I don't think people realize just how much faster these Apple drives are. Getting a fast M1 Mac and then holding it back with a slow external SSD is probably the wrong way to go. Externals are good for backups and for archiving old data, but I wouldn't use them to actually "work."

Been a disappointing few weeks with rejections from Apple over a couple of things having to do with the app. Watch to find out the details. Original post and demo about the app here: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/64497616">https://www.patreon.com/posts/64497616</a>  To check out the documentation page with all of the details, see: <a href="https://macmost.com/macmost-toolbox-app" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://macmost.com/macmost-toolbox-app</a> And to sign up for the beta test, go to <a href="https://forms.gle/6kjoe6d9C2udqGSL7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/6kjoe6d9C2udqGSL7</a>