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How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts on a Mac

Want to be the fastest to operate your Mac and do with the keyboard what possibly no one else has done before? Wish...

Need to turn a bunch of PDFs into one unified file for reading, sending, archiving or printing? Looking to make a PDF...

Deleted an important document by accident in Google Drive? Do not worry: you can usually bring it back with but a few...

Looking to optimize screen space and cut down on distractions on your Mac? Frustrated that you can’t remove the clock...

Dreading to open Apple Notes because you’ll be greeted with an assortment of many years of digital note-taking...

Lost somewhere maybe half way down a spreadsheet maze? Not sure how long the web page will be? Trying to scroll on...

Put a question to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Bing or another AI agent, just to get an answer that was underwhelming,...

Tired of long mouse trails and cascading menus? Much can be done — and done faster — with the keyboard alone, speeding...

Need to make pictures, drawings, and logos smaller for use on the web or an email signature but don’t care for...

Want to save a baffling text, laugh-worthy message or fleeting error message you’re seeing on your iPhone? You can...

Forwarding an email to yourself just to add a note — again? Wish you could add a few words to make sure you’ll find a...

Need to type something in a different language (such as Latin-American Spanish or German)? Picking up a new tongue...