The MacMost Newsletter: Issue #600 July 2, 2020
Creating Convenient Saved Searches For Your Mac Finder Sidebar You can use Saved Searches on your Mac, also called Smart Folders, to give you easy access to files in your Finder sidebar. This can be a handy way to see recent documents, all documents of a specific kind, or even your most commonly-used apps. Learn how to create, edit, delete and store Saved Searches.
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Watch at YouTube A Preview Of the New Control Center In macOS Big Sur A new feature of macOS Big Sur is Control Center. This is an iOS-like feature that brings together various system controls like volume, Wi-Fi, Do Not Disturb and other settings into a single panel you can access with one click in the menu bar.
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Watch at YouTube Including a Plus Symbol Before Values In Mac Numbers If you need to include something like a + symbol before positive numbers in cells, you can do it using formulas or using custom cell formatting. Using a custom cell format is more versatile and can be easily reused no matter how complex the calculation.
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Watch at YouTube How To Use Video Overlays In iMovie For iOS You can use images as video overlays for iMovie on your iPhone or iPad in the same way you do it for Mac. The Keynote app for iOS is a great way to create these images, which must have transparent backgrounds. Switching between Keynote and iMovie you can add text, shapes, lines or almost any sort of overlay image easily.
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Watch at YouTube How To Stay Safe When Downloading Software For Your Mac To stay safe while downloading third-party software from websites to your Mac you have to weigh risk versus reward. Here are six factors you need to take into account before downloading anything.
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Watch at YouTube Quick Tip: Finder List View Media Properties Columns If you are using List View in the Finder, you an Control+click on any column heading and see a list of columns with checkmarks. You can use this to remove or add a column. But if you do this in the Movies or Pictures folders in your home folder, you will get some extra column names, like Dimensions, Resolution, Duration or Title. If you create your own folder somewhere and name it "Movies" or "Pictures" you also get these columns as options.
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