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Here are some screenshot techniques that I commonly use. These combine the functions of the screenshot tool, Preview, and the clipboard to make useful workflows.

The Keyboard section of System Settings on your Mac contains many ways to customize your Mac and increase your productivity. Learn how to add Text Replacements, custom keyboard shortcuts, modify autocorrect settings, change your modifier keys and more.

A new feature in Final Cut Pro 11 is the ability to click on a subject and it will figure out the mask. And then it can apply that mask to frames before and after too.

These new Apple Intelligence image generation features will be coming to macOS Sequoia 15.2 and iOS 18.2 in December.

The vast majority people watch MacMost at MacMost.com and YouTube. A very small number of people get it from a podcast feed. It is time to put this podcast feed to rest.

You can use a fairly simple Shortcut on your iPhone to quickly scan the bar codes on your DVDs, CDs, books and other items to save a list of them into a Numbers spreadsheet.

Apple split new Mac announcements over three days, introducing a new M4 iMac, a redesigned Mac mini, and new M4 MacBook Pros.

You can use ElevenLabs to translate your videos, producing a new audio track that sounds like you, but speaking a different language.

The first beta of macOS 15.2 is out and it adds quite a bit to the writing tools in macOS 15.1. You can now describe how you want text to be rewritten. You can also link your ChatGPT account and generate text.

This setting is for people with more than one display connected to their Mac, and it changes some fundamental things about how the two screens work.

You can set up an iPhone to be a much simpler locked-down device for people in your care that may not be able to handle the usual iOS interface.

There are four different file dates for each file: created, modified, last opened and added. What do these all mean and how should they be used?

Learn more about how to delete files on your Mac and what happens in relation to iCloud Drive, freeing disk space, security and more.

Apple added more ways to automatically organize and find your photos.

In macOS Sequoia you can use Math Notes outside of the Notes app in places like Mail, Messages, Pages, TextEdit and even some third-party apps.

A new feature in the Camera app lets you pause and resume in the middle of recording video. This simple change opens up a lot of possibilities to make quick simple videos to keep alongside your Photos collection.

A new AI tool from Google will take in several documents and then give you several ways to learn about them. It will even produce a two-person podcast from the information.

Another minor change in macOS Sequoia is that the Chess app has a new look. Didn't know your Mac had a Chess app? Check it out...

With macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 you can plan hikes using this new functionality. It works great as long as you start from a pre-existing trailhead point. But it does let you go off-trail and follow regular roads, even in the city.

A new feature of Sequoia, and iOS 18, is automatic transcriptions of Voice Memos and audio in Notes. But you can also import audio into both of those apps and get just about anything transcribed locally and for free.