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Here are 10 tips and tricks to help you beyond Finder basics. Learn how to use Column and List views, the Go To Folder command, do boolean searches, Batch Rename and more.

If your Mac Calendar is cluttered, here are some techniques you can use to clean it up or at least make it easier to see the events that are important.

If the date and time of a photo in your Photos library is wrong, you can change it by adjusting the time zone or just changing the date or time itself. You can do this for multiple photos at the same time. You can also set or change the GPS location of a photo.

When you see those square QR codes in restaurants, stores and around town, are they safe to use? They are just easy ways to get to web pages, so the risks are essentially the same as any link.

Learn how to set up Focus modes, highlight PDFs, add your classes to your calendar and more.

The Info Window in the Mac Finder is a great tool, but the Inspector gives you basically the same thing but with some advantages.

The Dock is much more than a way to launch apps. But learning to use Dock Menus you can jump right to a specific window, reopen a recent document, use special commands and much more.

You can use the Shortcuts app to have your iPhone respond automatically to messages. You can choose one or more recipients and when they text you they will get a response back even if your iPhone is locked. You can customize by specifying text to look for in the original message and adding things like your location in the response.

If you customize the styles in a Pages, Numbers or Keynote document you can create a template from that document to easily reuse those styles again. You can also copy and paste styles from one document to another.

There is no built-in basic function to sort a list in Pages. But you can do it without leaving Pages by using a temporary table. You can also use Apple Intelligence to sort a list, often with more complex options.

Learn how to use soma basic Numbers skills to build a habit tracker. You can track habits each day, see when you have made your goal, see your best streak, and even view charts with the data.

You can save as a PDF from almost any app on your Mac through the Print dialog. But you can also use Open in Preview to create a temporary PDF and instantly view it in Preview. This has several advantages over Save As PDF.

Every time you get an email you should be checking to see if it is real. There are some very easy ways to spot of a scam which can save you time and heartache.

Did you just see an article claiming there has been a massive data breach and billions of passwords were leaked? Don't panic. News sites love to publish these articles, even if the news is old and they repeat them often. Here's what you need to do to protect your accounts.

If you are looking for a quicker or easier way to put your Mac to sleep, here are 10 methods that could help depending on your needs. Learn how to set a keyboard shortcut, use a Hot Corner, add a sleep command to an automation, ask Siri or use Spotlight.

Learn how to go beyond basic Keynote transitions with animations that move objects on your slides. You can use builds, movement paths, scaling, rotation and Magic Move to create a variety of effects to push your presentation to the next level.

Instead of having music continue past the end of your video clips, or having it end abruptly, you can easily fade out music and other audio at the end of your movie. You can also adjust the volume of audio clips making them fade in, out, cross-fade, do L-cuts and J-cuts, and also manually control the volume at any point you like.

If you spend too much time staring at your iPhone's screen, addicted to social media apps or games, you may want to try one or more of these techniques to help you break the habit.

When you share your contact information with someone else it will include everything, including private phone numbers and other details. Here's how to restrict what information is shared from your Mac or your iPhone.

Learn to use Safari on your iPhone more productively by mastering tabs. There are a ton of ways to create, manage and group your tabs, and ways to keep the number of tabs you have open under control.