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6/27/24

The second beta of macOS Sequoia gives us a preview of how iPhone Mirroring will work. This will allow you to see and work with your iPhone as if it is a window on your Mac's screen.

6/22/24

You can use Keynote to remove the background behind you and record yourself onto a virtual green screen. Then you can use that video in iMovie.

6/20/24

With macOS Sequoia, iPadOS 18 and iOS 18 you'll be able to do math with variables and function inside of the Notes app. Check out this amazing new feature coming to the new operating systems this fall.

6/15/24

A hidden new feature in macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 is the ability to mark files to be kept downloaded even if you have iCloud Drive "Optimize" turned on.

6/11/24

Apple announced the main new features of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia at this year's worldwide developers conference. They also went into detail about exciting new AI features coming to these platforms. Take a look at what they announced. Most of this we will see by this fall when the new operating systems are released.

6/8/24

Version 3.6 of Pixelmator Pro adds a new masking interface that makes it much easier to add and edit masks to layers.

6/6/24

You can use the &UDM=14 trick to see Google search results with fewer ads and no special features like maps or AI. But it can be hard to apply, especially in Safari. An easier way is to just select Web-only results in the page menu, or start from a third-party site.

6/1/24

Note: I am making this Patreon video available to everyone, even if not supporting MacMost at Patreon.

My 2021 Shortcut that allows you to capture text from any part of the screen isn't working in macOS 14.5 as there seems to be a bug in Shortcuts concerning screen capture. Here's a temporary work-around until Apple fixes the bug.

5/30/24

Apple changed the rules and now several game emulators are available in the App Store. So you can now play old Atari, Gameboy and other games on your iPhone. But why the massive day-to-day coverage at many sites?

5/25/24

OpenAI released a native Mac app that you can use with ChatGPT. It allows you to easily send images and ask questions using your voice.

5/23/24

It is easy to create presentations that combine multiple pieces of information on one slide and then use transitions to build it gradually.

5/18/24

In iOS 17.5 by default your News+ subscription will include automatic downloads of the latest news articles in your feed so you can view them offline without needing to remember to download anything beforehand.

5/16/24

You don't always need a premade template. For instance, here's how easy it is to create a Pages template for a single-sided quad fold card. But you do need to consider the inner margins and how to design a nice inside to the card even though it needs to print upside down.

5/11/24

A look at some of the computers I used before I got my first Mac.

5/9/24

Apple is trying to get some of the casual word game audience with additions to the News app.

5/7/24

Apple announced a new iPad Pro with the M4 processor today alongside a new iPad Air 13-inch model, a new Apple Pencil with lots of new features, a MacBook-like iPad Magic Keyboard and some AI features in updated iPad Pro apps.

5/2/24

After years of searching for a solution, I may have finally found one in Bunny.net.

4/27/24

The Health data on your iPhone can come from your Apple Watch or other apps. But you can also just enter data in manually, and for all sorts of different things like weight, temperature, even nutritional intake like caffeine.

4/25/24

You can't resize images in notes, and often you just want a small image, not a full-sized photo. So here's a Shortcut that will reduce the process to a few steps.

4/20/24

Center Stage works with the Apple Studio Display and when using an iPhone as a webcam. But in some situations you want to turn it off. You can, and better still you can control it manually.