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Tagging files and photos is useful for long-term organization. But you can also just use a tag as a way to gather some items together for a single task.

You can use a few different techniques to search the web when you already know which site contains the information you want.

You no longer need to know how to program with AppleScript to use AppleScript. Let ChatGPT do the work for you. But it may not get it right the first time.

If you hold down the Option or Shift keys, you can change what happens when you launch an app.

You can add a tag to your email address when filling out forms or signing up for things. This isn't useful for privacy or security, but can be a help in organizing the notifications you get in return.

Mission Control is a great way to switch to any window, but only if you use the mouse or trackpad. But with App Expose, you can use the tab and arrow keys to actually do it with just the keyboard.

Here's a walk-through of an interesting phishing attack that can let a scammer take over your Apple Account.

By combining a number of advanced techniques in Keyboard Maestro, you can turn the Caps Lock key into a hyperkey that brings up a palette of commands. This can save you from needing to remember too many keyboard shortcuts.

Apple Intelligence is different than other AI tools in four main ways: being partially on-device, privacy-focused, accessible to non-experts and integrated into the OS and apps.

You can keep large databases in a single table and still use a pivot table to extract summary data from only a portion of the data. For instance, you can examine a single year from a table that includes multiple years of data.

Pixelmator Pro does have pretty advanced arrow-drawing tools, but they can be hard to find if you have never used them before.

The cost of an app can be hidden in in-app purchases and subscriptions. Some apps are genuinely free, others have an upsell, and some make money from you or using you in other ways. It can pay to go to the developer's site to find out more and look for free trial versions.

There are a lot of ways to make small text bigger on the iPhone. Here's the one I prefer.

Beyond basic math, and even more complex math, you can do things like: multi-unit conversions, currency plus unit conversions, calculate and convert, time conversions and calculations, and adding percentages.

Text Clippings have been around for a long time, allowing you to drag and drop a previously-saved rich text snippet into a document. But how useful are they today?

MacWhisper is a third-party Mac app you can use to transcribe audio and video locally on your Mac. It is feature packed, going way beyond what macOS Sequoia includes.

In iOS 18.2 you can now get the current app and use it in an If statement. This can be handy in creating Action Button shortcuts that do different things depending on which app is open.

A small new update to Pages, Numbers and Keynote gives easier access to Apple Intelligence writing tools and Image Playground. It also allows you to ask ChatGPT about your open documents.

While building a recent MacMost video, I posted microblog-style while doing it. It gives some insight into my process and a few useful tidbits as well. You can see the whole thing at Bluesky without even needing to log in at https://bsky.app/profile/rosenz.bsky.social/post/3lcqanpunc227. But I have also compiled an image with all of the posts.

Here is a simple Shortcut that will let you add minutes to a timer that is already counting down on your iPhone.