Do you have multiple files you need to rename? Thankfully, batch-renaming files in macOS isn’t difficult. Here’s how: Start in the Finder. And remember not to confuse the Finder with the Desktop. The Finder is the first thing that you...
Over two months ago, I wrote about the bug Apple introduced into macOS 11.2 that prevented the SoftRAID driver from loading on M1 Macs. Here is where things stand.
The Dictation feature of macOS allows you to talk where you would type. You can reply to an email, search the web, or write a report using just your voice. Here’s how: Navigate to any text field, activate Dictation, then...
The Keychain Access app in macOS lets you view the keys, certificates, passwords, account information, notes, and other info stored in a keychain. A keychain is a locked, encrypted container used in Keychain Access to store account names and passwords....
If like me, you have various Apple devices, you like to have your data synced (updated and transferred) between them. If you use iCloud, much of this is done behind the scenes. However, about once a month, I manually sync...
March 24, 2001, was a banner day for Mac users. On that day, twenty years ago, Apple introduced the next generation of the Mac operating system – Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah." The introduction was no small matter, as it...
Sometimes you want to paste text you’ve copied into an app such as Pages on your Mac but DON’T want the text format to carry over from its source. Conveniently, there are various ways to deal with this. When you...
Do your tools of choice affect your work? How will choosing one NLE over another impact your craft? Editors face these questions when they’re looking for a new non-linear editor (NLE). For those working outside of the AVID TV/Hollywood ecosystem....
Apple’s myriad devices work together seamlessly — except when they don’t. I recently ran across an irritating problem in that my Mac quit allowing me to send messages in the Messages app. It took me a while to find the...
