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You can almost completely control the Calculator app on your Mac without the mouse or trackpad. There are even some hidden keyboard shortcuts that can come in handy.

Here's how to use LaunchPad on your Mac, organize it, and customize it.

Since you can edit photos from the Photos app in Pixelmator Pro and then save them in such a way as to retain the layers, you can use this to keep multiple variations of your photo and other elements in a single slot in your Photos library.

You can easily send email messages to yourself as a handy reminder, or a record of something. You can also send iMessages to yourself, though it works a little strangely.

Navigating around and getting work done in the Finder can go a lot faster if you know these keyboard shortcuts.

Here's a Numbers document that lets you track a stock portfolio based on individual transactions and over long periods of time.

There are a ton of special effects you can use in Pixelmator Pro on your Mac. It is fun to experiment with them and learn some graphics skills that could come in handy.

Here's one way to blur the background of a photo even if you don't have a third-party image editing tool.

In 2020 I wrote a post here at Patreon listing 8 "crazy" ideas I had that I wish Apple would implement for Macs. I was shocked to stumble upon it just now and see that 5 out of the 8 have come true! So maybe I should list some more crazy ideas that I can check back on in 5 years.

Check out the official online museum of Steve Jobs and download a free ebook.

Learn how you can use Automator to create useful apps that can then be put in the Finder toolbar for easy access.

Apple announced a new iPhone model to replace the iPhone SE and appear alongside the current iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro. Here's what makes this model different.

Genmoji, Memoji, Animoji and Stickers are nice, but you can't just create anything you like. But you can create truly custom stickers from your own graphics if you combine some techniques.

Apple just introduced a way to deal with an old Apple ID account that you may have been keeping around because you still have some purchases you need to access. It is a complex process, btu will finally bring some relief to those with this problem.

The Color Picker is part of macOS but can be used by different apps to allow you to select a color. There are lots of hidden bits of functionality.

Here are some tips for using the Mail app on your Mac.

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.