Happy Holidaz

System Updates

Lots of system updates for Mac OS and IOS…

An old friend...

My favorite Clock screen saver is back…Oh boy…

It can be found here.

Thank you…Thank you…Thank you…

More new toys...

iot security

Here's a link to an interesting podcast.

New wireless tools…oboy

This looks interesting

New iPad Pro-MacBook Air

New Mac mini

It's shiny...

I did a clean install of Mohave…Will see what happens… :-)

I updated to the Mohave today…oboy

Screenshots in Mohave

Mohave has a Screenshot app in the Utilities folder.

Looks like fun...

Beta testing

 I've been all caught up in beta testing…John

Finder Favorites And Smart Folders...oh boy...

Today's video is about Finder Favorites And Smart Folders.

I know I can hardly wait to get started… :-)

Finder Menus and Preferences

Today's video is about the finder preferences…oh boy…

I left smart folders out on purpose…That's for another day…  :-)

Part 4 of 4 Apple System Preferences overview (The Cliff Notes version)

Here's the last part of my System Preferences overview…

Have a great weekend.  :-)  John

Part 3 of 4 Apple System Preferences overview (The Cliff Notes version)

Part 3 Of Apple System Preferences... Don't worry there's only 4 parts  :-)

Here's part 2 of my multipart summary of the  Menu items.…Oh Boy :-)

Here's part 2 of my multipart summary of the  Menu items.…Oh Boy  :-)

 Menu and System Preferences part 1

The next few days I'll be posting short videos on the system preferences and how to customize them.

Try to have some fun… look around… and explore  :-)

John

Reopen Window Checkbox

When you choose shutdown or restart…

You will see a dialog box much like the one below.

Please do not leave this checked.

(This is one of those check boxes away from greatness.)

If you ever have a problem… if that box is checked…

You will have the same problem when you restart.

And that's not good…

That's all for today…Have a great weekend!  
:-)  John

Menumate

Menumate is a handy little program…

(I learned about it from Dr. Bob's course Working Smarter For Mac Users.
A Great course by the way…I highly recommended it, if you have time.)

It puts your menus from any open app on your desktop wherever your mouse is...
Here's what the finder looks like.

I like it…But it phones home every 15 seconds to an analytics server…
I've never seen another app do that…Especially given the simplicity of the app.
I disabled it with Little Snitch.

No conclusions…Just curious. I emailed them…I have not heard back from them yet.
That's for another day…  :-)

Yet another mail update :-)

I was looking at the new Mojave Beta…
There is a huge Move To button in the middle of the Mail window.

They've had it since system 10.7…
But you had to use the customized toolbar to get to it.

I bet people make it out as a new feature.  :-)

Apple Mail tips 2

Today's tip is in Apple Mail app.

When looking in a mailbox in Apple's mail…

You can change the sorting method, whether it's by date, subject, received from, etc.

See photos below…

My two favorites are Date Received and Received From.

If you click on date received… it will reverse the chronological order.
Click on it a second time… it will change back.

Received From can be used when deleting or moving emails in mass.

Click on Received From… them find me email you want to move…
Choose the top one in the list that you want to move…

Click on it once…

Hold the shift key…

While still holding the shift key… click the last one in the list you want to move. 

Now click on the Move To Icon that you have customized from my first mail tip.

Choose the mail folder you want to send them to… and like magic they are there.

You can also just hit the delete key on the keyboard if you're looking to throw them all away at once.

That's it for today :-)

John

Apple Mail tips

Here's the first one…I'm going to start with Apple's Mail App…

I switched to classic view, in the Mail menu preferences.

Here is an all-in-one picture.

New Blog!

Hi...I'm creating this blog to give my tips and reviews of Macintosh software.

I've been working on Mac's since 1989.

There are no ads…and I don't get paid...
Unless you click the donate button.  :-)