by Garret Cleversley | May 13, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Finder, Mac, Restricted Content, Spotlight, Tip, trouble
For the most part, Spotlight works well. Press Command-Space or use the Search field in a Finder window, and it finds everything that matches your search term. Sometimes, however, Spotlight fails to turn up a file that you know is present, likely due to index...
by Garret Cleversley | May 10, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Dropbox, file sharing, Google Docs, How-To, iCloud, iCloud Drive, iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content
Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive all have their place, but as of March 2020, Apple users no longer have to venture outside the Apple ecosystem for online folder sharing. Before then, you could share a single file in iCloud with another iCloud user,...
by Garret Cleversley | May 6, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, email, Mac, Mail, productivity, Restricted Content, Solution, troubleshooting
Email is a major part of all our lives, both personally and professionally, and as such, it can add up. Before you know it, you have years of email stored away—potentially tens or even hundreds of thousands of messages. Most of the time, that’s fine. Email doesn’t...
by Garret Cleversley | May 4, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Explainer, InDesign, Mac, Microsoft Word, page layout, Pages, productivity, Restricted Content, 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...
by Garret Cleversley | May 2, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Desktop, Do Not Disturb, How-To, Mac, Notification Center, privacy, Restricted Content, videoconferencing
Along with the now-ubiquitous videoconferencing, screen sharing and online presentations have become vastly more common during the pandemic. This isn’t yet another article about how to give a better presentation or feel more confident. (Although those might happen...
by Garret Cleversley | Apr 30, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Big Sur, Finder, Mac, Preview, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
This is a twofer tip. You may not have known that every document window in macOS has long had a proxy icon in the title bar, next to the filename. The proxy icon is not just cosmetic. You can drag it to Mail to attach the document to a message, to a Web browser to...
