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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pages is both a Word Processor and a Page Layout app. It behaves differently in a number of key ways depending on which mode you are in. With a Word Processing template you get body text that flows from one page to the next automatically. With a Page Layout template you get a blank canvas on each page and pages can be reordered easily.

Compressor is an Apple app that lets you re-compress video into various formats. You can reduce the file size of a video produced in iMovie, Final Cut Pro or any source including just the original clips your recorded to save space. Learn the basics of how to compress video and also see some handy tips.

Split View mode for windows on your Mac puts exactly two windows side-by-side in their own space with no Desktop behind them. This can be handy when you have exactly two windows you need to work with. Here are some tips for working in Split View mode.

If you need to record your Mac screen and include the audio being played by apps you can do it using the free third-party app OBS Studio. Here's how to set up a basic OBS studio project that will record both your screen and internal audio and save it as a video file.

If you notice that the Menu Bar at the top of your Mac is missing, it could be a simple setting that hides the Menu Bar when in full screen mode. You can change that. But there are also a variety of other reasons and situations where your menu bar could be hidden.

Overlays in iMovie are the key going beyond the basics. With overlays you can have multiple layers of video, use a green screen, split the screen between two videos and show one video on top of another using a picture-in-picture effect. You can go even further with overlays using keyframe animation and other filters and effects.

The row of Function Keys at the top of your Mac's keyboard serve a dual purpose. You can use them to trigger keyboard shortcuts as keys like F1, F2, F3, etc. But you can also use them to control your Mac's screen, volume, media playback and trigger other special features of macOS. Learn how to toggle between the two sets of functions with the Globe / FN key.

While it isn't difficult to subtract a start time from an end time to get a duration value, it takes some extra work to convert that into a decimal number of hours, and more work to round it to the nearest quarter-hour.

While Final Cut Pro comes with many ready-to-use titles, you can also build your own custom titles to fit your needs and style.

If you are using some slide elements across many slides, put those elements on a slide layout. Then you can change those layout elements and the changes will be reflected across all slides. You can also use text and media placeholders on slide layouts to preserve size, position and other properties even if the content of those elements change.

Context menus appear in the middle of your screen when you right click, two-finger click or Control+click on an object. You can use them in almost any app on almost any object. You can also bring them up in some cases with a keyboard shortcut.

Before sending a link to a web page in an email or text message, here are some things to consider like keeping the URLs short, copying just the link, highlighting text on a page and more.