by Marilyn | Jun 13, 2018 | data detectors, keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
Apple makes it easy to look up information about any word you can see on your Mac, in nearly any app. To access this information, Control- or right-click the word and choose Look Up “word”, use the trackpad to tap the word with three fingers, or hover the pointer over...
by Marilyn | May 14, 2018 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Reminders, Solution, window
With Apple’s productivity apps like Calendar, Contacts, Notes, and Reminders, which look and work pretty much the same on the Mac and in iOS, what you see is largely what you get. Particularly in iOS, they tend not to have much in the way of hidden depths. With...
by Marilyn | Oct 4, 2017 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, Safari, Tip, Troubleshooting
We’ve all hit a Web page at some point that doesn’t load fully, looks wrong, or doesn’t work as it should. It’s not your fault, but here are a few things you can try on your Mac. First, press Command-R to reload the page. Second, quit and relaunch Safari. Third and...
by Marilyn | Oct 2, 2017 | Finder, gesture, keyboard shortcut, Mac, Mission Control, productivity, Tip, trackpad
When you click the green zoom button in a window on your Mac, that puts the window into full-screen mode. It’s a great way to maximize screen real estate on a smaller MacBook screen, for instance, but how can you switch between these virtual screens quickly? You could...
by Marilyn | Sep 21, 2017 | delete, keyboard shortcut, Mac, Photos, productivity, Tip
It’s a lot easier to take photos than it is to delete them, particularly in Photos on the Mac. You’ve done the dance: select a photo, press Delete, and press Return when Photos asks if you want to delete the photo. But you can sidestep that annoying dialog with this...
by Marilyn | Jul 23, 2017 | data detectors, Dictionary, keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content, Services, Solution, trackpad
You’re probably used to Mac apps using red underlines to mark misspelled words, but did you know that macOS has long included a fully featured Dictionary app as well? It provides quick access to definitions and synonyms in the New Oxford American Dictionary and the...
