MacMost Newsletter Issue #582 for February 27, 2020

Pages Course Sale Ends Tomorrow

Just a reminder that less than 48 hours remain for the 40% off coupon for my new course on Mac Pages.

The course teaches you everything you need to know to use Pages as both a word processor and page layout tool. This course includes more than 60 lessons and 4 hours of video instruction. You’ll learn about fonts, styles, formatting, special characters, headers, footers and footnotes. There are also tutorials on adding graphic elements, table of contents, exporting, collaboration and editing, templates and much more.

Use the coupon code ernest to get 40% off the course until the end of the day on February 28. So in the U.S. where the course price is $39.95, you will get it for only $23.97. Just make sure the coupon code is applied before checking out.

You can go to the course page to check out the table of contents and view sample lessons.

How To Store Your Music On an External Drive

In macOS Catalina if you are not using Apple Music you can choose to store your music files on an external drive. There are a number of methods you can use. Also learn how to clear out your Music app library to start from scratch.
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How To Clean Up Your iPhone Or iPad To Free Up Space

If you iPhone or iPad is almost full, you may need to take the time to clean out things you no longer need. iOS makes this easy by providing a list of apps showing how much space each uses and giving you controls to delete content. You can also change settings for Messages, Photos and the Camera apps so you use less space.
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12 Things You May Not Know You Can Do With PDF Files In Mac Preview

Preview is a great tool for viewing PDF documents. But you can do much more than just viewing. You can fill in forms, even PDFs that don't have preset fillable fields. You can password-protect them, export them as images, merge documents, rearrange and delete pages and more.
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12 Things You May Not Know You Can Do With Images In Mac Preview

Preview is a great tool for viewing image files. But you can do much more than just viewing. In addition to the annotation tools you may already be familiar with, you can also use Preview to export images into a different format, crop, resize and adjust colors. You can even import images from cameras or scanners.
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10 Ways To Make Your Email Signature More Interesting

We include email signatures with every message we send, but often don't put much thought into the signature itself. You can make yours stand out with some simple techniques like using colors, including emoji or clever combinations of characters, images and more.
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The Tech Enthusiast Hour Podcast: Regulated chargers, microphones, and installs as easy as Apple

Scrutinizing the security of submit buttons, what Europe is doing about charging, and Win10 installs are getting as easy as Apple. Subscribe at iTunes...

Quick Tip: Get Back the Mac Startup Chime

The latest version of Catalina seems to respond to a new Terminal command to bring back the startup chime in at least some Mac models from 2017 or newer. Use sudo nvram StartupMute=%00 to get it back and sudo nvram StartupMute=%01 to turn it off again.

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