by Terry McAdams | Jul 25, 2024 | Mac, productivity, Tip
Let’s say you’re writing documentation to help colleagues use Preview to edit images, sign PDFs, and convert graphics. (A worthy task for which they will thank you!) For this documentation, you want to include the Preview app’s icon so they know what to look for in...
by Terry McAdams | Jul 22, 2024 | Camera, iPad, iPhone, productivity, Tip
Trying to make out a tiny serial number or some fine print you can barely read can be frustrating. Years ago, Apple added a magnifier mode to its accessibility options and turned the feature into a standalone app in iOS 14. You can find the Magnifier app in the...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 14, 2024 | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Photos, productivity, Tip
If you have trouble finding particular items across multiple shelves of books, labeled boxes, or anything else that’s clearly identified with a text name, take carefully composed photos that capture all the titles without glare. Later, you can search for any text in...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 10, 2024 | AI, productivity
Artificial intelligence dominates the tech news these days, but it’s hard to separate the hype from the reality. Every large company seems to have some major AI initiative in the works. Even Apple, which tends to stick to its own path, has started to tout features...
by Terry McAdams | May 9, 2024 | iPad, Keynote, Mac, Numbers, Pages, productivity, Tip
The latest versions of the Mac and iPad apps in Apple’s iWork suite—Pages 14, Keynote 14, and Numbers 14—have gained a helpful feature: non-contiguous text selection. By holding down the Command key, you can select chunks of text that aren’t next to each other. For...
by Terry McAdams | May 1, 2024 | Mac, productivity, Tip
Have you ever noticed the shading in the corner of text area fields in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and most other Mac Web browsers? These “handles” let you resize the field—always vertically and sometimes horizontally. That’s handy when the website designer has provided...
