by Marilyn | May 24, 2021 | Mac, Security, Tip
If you’re using QuickBooks Online with the service’s Mac app to manage your business’s accounting, you may have seen a message like the one below announcing that Intuit has stopped updating the QuickBooks Online app. This doesn’t affect your QuickBooks Online account,... 
by Marilyn | May 21, 2021 | accessibility, Big Sur, customization, Mac, menu bar, Tip
In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple went back to a design direction from the earliest days of Mac OS X: a translucent menu bar. Since its color changes depending on the desktop picture, many people aren’t enamored of it (left, below). Luckily, reverting to the traditional... 
by Marilyn | May 18, 2021 | Article, customization, How-To, iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity, videoconferencing
After a long day of video calls, you might feel like your brain has been wrung out like a wet washcloth—we certainly do. It’s exhausting to stare into a computer for hours every day while participating in meetings or classes. This condition is called Zoom fatigue, and... 
by Marilyn | May 14, 2021 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip, word processing
When you copy text from a Web page, PDF, or word processing document, macOS usually includes the associated formatting, so the words you paste may end up in 68-point blue italic if that was what the source text looked like. That’s often undesirable. More commonly, you... 
by Marilyn | May 7, 2021 | Article, Desktop, Explainer, Launchpad, Lock screen, Mac, Mission Control, Notification Center, pointer, screen saver
Nine Reasons to Put Your Mac’s Pointer in a Corner If your Mac is like ours, it’s a busy place, with oodles of open windows and lots of icons lying around. If you want to display the Desktop or see a single app’s windows, you may find yourself clicking around or using... 
by Marilyn | May 3, 2021 | Article, Explainer, InDesign, Mac, Microsoft Word, page layout, Pages, productivity, word processing
Some of the trickiest editing and proofreading problems are related to characters you can’t typically see on the screen: spaces, tabs, and returns. Just because they’re invisible doesn’t mean they don’t affect the look of a document, often in negative ways. For...