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macOS Sonoma and iOS 17 allow you to add links from notes to notes in the Notes app. This lets you basically create little mini "wikis" in Notes. Better still, I found you can do things like share these notes with others and the links still work, mix in links…

You can now have multiple timers with labels. You can start them in the Clock app or using Control Center. You can also control them on your Lock Screen.…

Here's my big list of all of the new features in macOS Sonoma. I go through the list with commentary and showing some of my favorites.…

A have a large text that’s already written in the Pages app: it’s about 50,000 words. The writer has used straight quotes throughout; I want to change these to curly quotes throughout. But how? Is there a find-and-paste solution? I’m an editor and this…

There are hundreds of keyboard shortcuts for Mac users. There are Mission Control shortcuts, Finder shortcuts, system shortcuts, application shortcuts and more. Many you can find by just looking through the menu bar for that application. You can find system…

iOS 17 includes 14 new features in the Messages app alone. Learn how to use Emoji as Stickers, share your location, create stickers from your photos, swipe to reply to a specific message and much more.…

You can do a lot with the built-in screenshot tool on your Mac. Learn how to draw perfect shapes, highlight areas, use Emoji, save where you want and much more.…

With so many new and interesting features in iOS 17, I had to make a second video. Learn how to use Stickers in different places, easily crop photos, leave a FaceTime video message, and much more.…

Sonoma changes a few things in both the simple Keyboard dictation and Accessibility Voice Control dictation. Gone is the floating button, there are better ways to correct words, and it is better at finding alternate words and there is now a tutorial.…

Here are some of the new features of iOS 17 that you should check out once you have upgraded.…

iOS 17 includes 14 new features in the Messages app alone. Learn how to use Emoji as Stickers, share your location, create stickers from your photos, swipe to reply to a specific message and much more.…

If you work with Mac Numbers you can use ChatGPT to get help with functions and formulas, generate sample data, clean up data and more.…

Here's a summary of today's announcements including the new iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2.…

If a YouTube video is too fast or too slow, you can change the playback speed in the video settings or using keyboard shortcuts. You can also easily jump back 10 seconds to see or hear something again.…

Been keeping track of the new things in iOS 17 for the iPhone and created this list. In the (long) video I go through it with my thoughts and showing some of the features. Attached is the list in RTF form in case you want to use it when you upgrade your…

Even if you are already backup up with Time Machine locally, you should consider having an online backup as well. Here are the reasons you may want to have a second backup online, or why you may be fine just using Time Machine and iCloud.…

Learn how to minimize windows and when it can be useful. See how minimizing works with Full Screen windows, Stage Manager and app switching.…

There's more you can do with Google than just search the web. You can also access tools like a calculator, random number generators, weather, nutritional information and much more. You can even play a variety of games.…

If you work with Mac Numbers you can use ChatGPT to get help with functions and formulas, generate sample data, clean up data and more.…

Instead of using iMovie travel maps, you can create an animated travel map using any background map you have and trace a detailed route onto it. This tutorial will also teach you some basic Keynote animation techniques. You can even add a graphic or icon to…

If you need to search a site for text as you are writing, this Shortcut will cut out many steps. I use it all day long to get links to my own videos.…

The Trailers app on my Apple TV says trailers have been moved to the Apple TV+ app, but I’ve browsed around that app, and I can’t find them. How do I get to them? I want to be able to watch trailers after the Trailers app is taken away. —– Cameron

You can choose whether the Menu Bar on your Mac is always visible, or will hide when you aren't using it. The setting for this recognizes the difference between using a Desktop space or a Full Screen space, so it is important to understand Mission Control as…

It is frustrating that there is no easy way to select a folder and get a list of folders and files with indentations to show which files are in which folders. But with TextEdit and a couple of Replace All commands, you can do it.…

Here are some more unusual places and situations where you can use Copy and Paste on your Mac.…

There's more you can do with Google than just search the web. You can also access tools like a calculator, random number generators, weather, nutritional information and much more. You can even play a variety of games.…

Here are some unusual places and situations where you can use Copy and Paste.…

I use the Apple Keyboard with the numeric keypad. Why? Lots of good reasons!…

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In settings/mobile data (on my iPhone) there in an entry “Uninstalled Apps” which is showing data usage how can I stop this? I am doing all I can to reduce data usage. —– Barry Rogers