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Apple publishes design documents, templates and other resources that anyone can examine. It is a good way to closely examine what is coming in the next version of macOS.

To save money while traveling to other countries you can purchase an eSIM through simple apps. This allows you to inexpensively connect to local phone networks.

You may occasionally see a reference on your Mac to purgeable space. This is simply available space that is being temporarily used and would be automatically made available if needed.

I took lots of pictures with my Sony mirrorless camera, but also took some great shots with my iPhone that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

Years after a video about unusual things you could do with the Mac Calculator, lets take a look and see if these still work in the new Calculator app that comes with macOS Sequoia.

If you like to keep files on your Mac's Desktop, here are some tips you should know that will help you manage them.

A look back at 15 useful pages at Apple.com to see which ones are still there and how they have evolved from 10 years ago.

Turns out you can add an Up button and perhaps a lot more to the Finder windows with just a little scripting and a lot of persistence.

You can create a relatively simple Shortcut to add a timestamp to a photo. You can add other information taken from the photo's metadata as well.

You hear about Homebrew so often online that it is interesting to know what it is and how it works, even though you probably don't need it.

Vibe coding is simply using a chat AI system like ChatGPT to help you code. You can vibe code without being bogged down in the details of a programming language or system. Watch as I use vibe coding to write a quick shell script for use in Shortcuts to process some text in a file.

You can screenshot a list of numbers and then feed that to AI to get a total. But you can also do it without any AI at all.

People with a high number for an age often tend to assume they will have trouble learning new things. But I haven't found that to be true. I think this attitude is a problem and should be examined.

Shortcuts in Tahoe seems to do a better job of allowing a chat environment with the on-device Apple Intelligence LLM. Experimenting with it shows how knowledgeable the LLM stored on your device can be even with no Internet connection.

Text Clippings are files that you can drag and drop into some documents to insert text. You can't edit them and they don't work everywhere. In 2025, can Shortcuts do better?

A new feature in macOS Tahoe is being able to access clipboard history in Spotlight. In this very early beta it is interesting what it does, and does not, do so far.

The new version of Pixelmator Pro adds some Apple Intelligence tools, accessibility improvements and a new RAW format. But most importantly, it shows Apple probably plans to let it just be Pixelmator Pro.

While you can use File, Move in many apps, there is no Move function in the Finder. You have to use multiple windows for drag and drop, copy and paste in a different location or use a variety of other methods. But you can add a Move File function using Shortcuts pretty easily.

A look at five methods for quickly inserting text on the iPhone. You can use the built-in Text Replacements, build your own Shortcuts menu, or use a third-party app keyboard.

If the Calculator app is missing a specific calculation that you use often, like a Time Value Of Money calculation, you can just create that in Shortcuts. Once you have built the Shortcut, you can use it over and over again.