10/8/26
Learn the basics of using drag and drop on your Mac. You can use your mouse or trackpad to move an item, like a file, from one location to another. You can also use drag and drop to move objects in documents, import items into apps and much more.
10/7/26
If you don't like the Liquid Glass look to macOS, or would like it fine-tune it, there are a variety of controls you can use. Learn how to completely turn it off or adjust it as often as you like.
10/6/26
iOS 27 includes some nice new features in the Photos app. You can now add keywords, extend or reframe with AI, easily modify your photo selection, turn a video into a photo and much more.
10/1/26
You can't use the Mac's built-in screenshot tool to get an entire web page, just the visible portion. But you can use a simple function in Safari to do it quickly and easily.
9/30/26
macOS Golden Gate combines the old Spotlight Menu and the Siri text entry prompt into one text field where you can both search for things and ask Siri AI questions. You can still do everything you could do before with Spotlight in the same way, but now Siri AI adds more ways to search, get information and take actions.
9/29/26
The Photos app in macOS Golden Gate includes a new editing section with AI tools for retouching, erasing, extending and reframing your photos. Learn how to use these tool to fix or improve your photos.
9/24/26
Many of the apps that come with your Mac can't be uninstalled. This is because they are part of the system, and the system is protected from being altered. You can see which apps are protected by knowing where to look. Fortunately, these apps are relatively small and don't use much space.
9/23/26
Looking beyond the big new AI features in macOS Golden Gate there are a lot of small useful new AI-related functions that can save you time and increase your productivity. macOS will now suggest file names for new documents, give you quick text responses, add calendar events when viewing information, search for vague things in multiple apps, and even compose Numbers formulas. You can even get help on how to use your Mac from your Mac.
9/22/26
Apple Creator Studio subscribers can now edit images in Pages directly in Pixelmator Pro without needing intermediate steps. You can return to edit the images later and see all adjustments, effects and layers. These Pixelmator Pro documents are internal to the Pages document which has advantages and disadvantages.
9/17/26
Siri is a true AI chatbot now in macOS Golden Gate. Better still, you can ask questions pertaining to your own data and even take actions that control apps on your Mac. You can access Siri AI through the old Spotlight commands, a new Siri app and also with controls throughout macOS.
9/16/26
Many Mac app have the ability to look back at past revisions of the document you are working on and roll back to that previous version or grab content from it. Learn how to use this in Pages, Numbers and many more apps.
9/15/26
A new feature in macOS Golden Gate is the ability to create Safari browser extensions with an AI prompt. Here are 10 examples that give you an idea of what is possible.
9/10/26
There are a lot of different ways to attach a photo to an email message. In some cases it matters which method you choose. And in all cases there is one very important setting you need to set correctly. And if you want to send the original image you'll need to do some specific things.
9/9/26
If an important file suddenly goes missing, it may not be completely gone. First, look in the Trash, which is your safety net against accidentally deleting files. But even if it is not there, you may find it in iCloud Recently Deleted or be able to recover it from your Time Machine backup. Or, it could be that the file hasn't really been deleted at all and you just need to try some other things to figure out where it went.
9/8/26
While the most powerful new features of macOS Golden Gate involve Siri and AI, there are still plenty of new things that are not AI-related. Check out new sidecar and iPhone mirroring features, appearance settings, and new things you can do in Notes, Freeform and Photos.
9/3/26
If your Messages app is filled with old messages and attachments taking up too much space, here's how to clear them out. You can also make your Messages app quieter by hiding alerts for specific conversations or reducing notifications.
9/2/26
To go beyond typing standard letters, numbers and punctuation and type special characters like accent marks, Emoji, symbols and more, you can use a variety of techniques. Learn them all and which ones to use for which kinda of special characters.
9/1/26
A new feature that is part of Apple Creator Studio is the ability to create custom shapes using an AI generation tool. These are the same kinds of single-color shapes that have been in Pages, Numbers and Key for years, but now you can generate anything you like instead of relying on the preset shapes or drawing your own.
8/27/26
Email invitation scams are basic phishing scams with a twist. They appear to come from someone you know, and offer the temptation of a party or other event you may miss by not clicking.
8/26/26
In the Reminders app you can create Smart Lists that allow you to group reminders by tags, dates, priority and other properties. It is simpler than similar features in the Finder and Photos, but has some surprising additional features.






















