I know we keep saying it, but Gary is THE BEST. He ALWAYS has stuff even us old timers do not know about the devises we have owned for years!!! Thanks again!!!!!
I have been a Mac user for over 20 years and I am astounded by the things you are telling me that I don't know. Thank you for making my Mac life so much easier.
Gary, you sir are the best, just-the-facts instructor on all things mac and macOS. This one is so good, just the de-clutter aspect alone is just priceless.
Great tip for creating the bookmarks folder. I've always got multiple tutorials open from TH-cam and they clutter up my screen. Now I can put them into the bookmark folder and find them easily. Great tip!
Hi Gary- may make a suggestion for an episode or series? There may be a lot of us who use a Mac at work but are required to use Google docs, slides, and sheets. It would be awesome if you could show us tricks and tips and ways that I can use it these applications to the greatest advantage on a Mac. I love your work and assured your channel with many friends. Thank you so much and keep up the great work!
As an old Unix sysadm, I really missed links to files that I could drop wherever I wanted. Of course, I did all that with the command line. But with my Mac, I’d gotten away from the command line. These tips have been great. Thanks.
Gary, this is a great video! It blows me away what you know and share with us. My biggest fear…is moving things around and when I put them back I loose them forever which I have done before. I don’t understand how to put files and folders back without loosing them.
What "things" are you moving around? The items in the Dock? Those are just aliases to the real apps/folders/files. The actual items stay in the same place.
@@macmost Thanks Gary. I place a monthly spreadsheet in the Dock-if I understand correctly, it would be ok to “ Trash” the alias and my original would be ok.
Excellent information! Definitely going to add Tagged Documents and Weblinks as I can utilise that for what I’m currently working on across multiple applications.
May I suggest a vodcast on the use for Clippings. I keep a folder of useful clippings of addresses, boiler plate text, Lorem ipsum text for headlines, body text, lists, names and addresses and positional images and media. As I need them I drag them into open documents.
hey this is great the application folder with list view I've been doing this for years! thanks for sharing Gary!! The application folder will be helpful for a new mac user coming from windows, it reminds me of that in windows.
Thanks for all the useful tips for making the dock more useful and friendly. One question: why put frequently used folders and files in the dock instead of leaving them on the desktop where they can also be easily seen? Maybe I’m just a messy desk kinda person 😉.
One reason would be messy desktop = decreased productivity. Lots of visual distractions. They also then can't be seen behind windows or on full screen apps.
Thanks Gary. A little off the subject but I've been wanting to ask you this for a while. I use a digital projector every day in my teaching. To switch between the mirroring screen on the projector and not, I use the keystroke Fn-Command-Brightness on the touch-bar. I wish there was a way to bring up the Mirror Selection feature on the Touch Bar. Just can't figure it out.
@@macmost Thanks for the reply. Just in case you, or anyone else gives it some thought, when the projector cable is removed and reconnected, the Touch Bar displays this...[ Display Connected: Mirror Displays Extended Desktop ]. Just not sure how to bring up this display on the Touch Bar on demand. Thank you again. Your videos are on my top five of must see on a regular basis.
I do something similar, including to web links. I use custom folder icons to identify them, including one for my favourite commentator as a deep-etched head and shoulders. You can do the same with folders of links to regular email contacts and messages. It's easy to make deep-etched portrait icons in Preview. I have another method that I developed for when I set up a weekly magazine which was held on a server. I had a link for all the staff that pointed to an alias that would point to a folder holding the current week's publication, stories, photos and ads. After that went to press, I switched the link on the server to point to the next issue and the completed issue would be moved to the archive. Nobody had to change anything on their Macs. Their links always pointed to the current issue and the archives folder.
In the Dock? Or do you mean in an app like Notes? But default Notes doesn't remove items from a list. Reminders does, but you can change that there too.
When I control-click on dock icons, I don't get all the options in the video (display as, sort by, etc.). I just get Open Recent, Options (Keep in Dock, etc.), etc. How do I get the larger menus on the video?
Under Snow Leopard on my old first edition MacBook I have the Application folder in my Dock but in Grid view. List view is just too fussy for fast selection. On my main MacBook Pro under Mojave I have Recent Applications, again in a Grid view, as my primary launcher.
Application folder was a default item in the dock in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, when stacks were introduced for the first time. I miss this operating system. It was a time, when a new version of the OS was really bringing new features. And it was beautiful as well, I liked it much more than current candy-like interface.
Help!!! Off subject ! I have a MacBook M1 with 256 GB hard drive, i’m down to 14 GB of free space I currently cannot back up onto an external hard drive at the moment I want to delete stuff like 10 GB worth of stuff nothing changes suggestions please thank you
Can someone tell me how to select multiple files in Finder with icon view? Select + Shift +select works only with list viev and column viev. Second day with macos and it gives me Such a kick. Use it every day many Times in Win10..
@@macmost its ok when u choose 10 img, but when its 100 or sth, its easier to choose first 1st and last with keyboard. Is it any option to make it easier, also with touchpad?
Gary, WHY aren't you CEO of Apple?? It's a good thing I don't live close to you because you would not have time to make videos because of tutoring me 🤣 Thanks as always for a great video
@@macmost I was trying to add a TH-cam icon to the dock. I just cannot make it work on this Mac mini. I could not drag the application folders to the dock it would not stick.
@@lonecody First, what are you dragging, exactly? What item, and where is that item, exactly? Second, where are you dragging it to: the left side of the Dock or right side?
@@macmost doesn’t matter where I drag it. It just snaps right back to the panel. I found it in. I find it a lot of videos that I watch concerning stuff like Photoshop or the Mac computer just don’t work anymore. macOS and Photoshop changes things. It’s not a big deal. I thought I saw you do a video on it and then when I tried to search back and find it, I could not. Sometimes the frustration is just not worth the end product you are looking for with a Mac. However, your videos are great. I’ve learned a lot from you. Thank you very much.
@@lonecody It doesn’t sound like you are dragging an ‘app” to the left side as you said “TH-cam icon” and that’s a web site. But without the details I asked for in the last comment I can’t help much.
I know we keep saying it, but Gary is THE BEST. He ALWAYS has stuff even us old timers do not know about the devises we have owned for years!!! Thanks again!!!!!
Indeed. Not sure how Gary does this :-)
Being new to Mac, long time iPhone user, can't even tell you how much I have learned from your videos. Thank you so much for what you do.
Same tor me.
When I apply your tips, they save me a second or two - dozens of times a day- every day. You save me days!!
Gary, that last bonus tip is EXACTLY the one I needed… Thanks a lot, once again !
Thanks Gary. New windows to apple converts like me find these sort of videos extremely helpful. Stay safe!
I have been a Mac user for over 20 years and I am astounded by the things you are telling me that I don't know. Thank you for making my Mac life so much easier.
Gary, you sir are the best, just-the-facts instructor on all things mac and macOS. This one is so good, just the de-clutter aspect alone is just priceless.
At first I was like, I don't need things to my already crowed dock. But now I get it, thanks!
Thanks yet again. I really appreciate your direct to the point style. You are my go-to-first source for all things Mac.
These are PERFECT!! i’ll definitely get some set up! Thank you Gary!
Switching to Mac and I’ve been watching these videos to create my workflow on the os. This is great stuff. Subscribed.
It’s very helpful. Thank you so much!
Good stuff again, Gary.
Great video, as usual. I only wish I could remember 10% of these... I'd be a superuser. :-)
Gary, you have the best macOS tips. I found adding System Preference panes to be most helpful.
Thanks. I’m new to your site but find it very helpful.
Quite impressive your tutorials, thank you very much!!!
thankyou very much Gary..you are awesome
Thanks for the video, Garry.
Great tip for creating the bookmarks folder. I've always got multiple tutorials open from TH-cam and they clutter up my screen. Now I can put them into the bookmark folder and find them easily. Great tip!
Hi Gary- may make a suggestion for an episode or series? There may be a lot of us who use a Mac at work but are required to use Google docs, slides, and sheets. It would be awesome if you could show us tricks and tips and ways that I can use it these applications to the greatest advantage on a Mac. I love your work and assured your channel with many friends. Thank you so much and keep up the great work!
I'm not a big Google Docs user myself. Occasionally. But I don't have the depth of knowledge needed in that subject I'm afraid.
Excellent. Thank you very much 👌🏻
As an old Unix sysadm, I really missed links to files that I could drop wherever I wanted. Of course, I did all that with the command line. But with my Mac, I’d gotten away from the command line. These tips have been great. Thanks.
Thanks for the video!
Gary, this is a great video! It blows me away what you know and share with us. My biggest fear…is moving things around and when I put them back I loose them forever which I have done before. I don’t understand how to put files and folders back without loosing them.
What "things" are you moving around? The items in the Dock? Those are just aliases to the real apps/folders/files. The actual items stay in the same place.
@@macmost Thanks Gary. I place a monthly spreadsheet in the Dock-if I understand correctly, it would be ok to “ Trash” the alias and my original would be ok.
@@Jimgoodwin846 Right. Not trash, but "remove from Dock." Just drag it up and out of the Dock.
Excellent information!
Definitely going to add Tagged Documents and Weblinks as I can utilise that for what I’m currently working on across multiple applications.
Brilliant. Thank you. I love the web bookmarks. This is good
I learn so much on these videos. Thank you.
I've been using macOS since Tiger, and oh my! Gary you always come up with useful features I didn't know about!!!
Very useful. Thanks
Your videos are very helpful to set up macbook for new user 👍
Thanks again Maestro! Apple should hire you as a user expert!
Top drawer Gary, love your work, I learn heaps of new tricks to use on my Mac. Keep em coming! :)
This is how one becomes mac os power user. By watching this channel!
Brill! Very helpful thanks.
This is very helpful tips! 🙏
enjoy your videos, curious, isn't it just as easy to click finder create new tag and filter docs that way?
Thank you for all you do
Now that's a bunch of cool tips, thanks, Gary!!!
Anyone can master MacOS by watching your videos and subscribing
dude you are on fire! thanks!
May I suggest a vodcast on the use for Clippings.
I keep a folder of useful clippings of addresses, boiler plate text, Lorem ipsum text for headlines, body text, lists, names and addresses and positional images and media. As I need them I drag them into open documents.
That was extremely useful. I learned loads of new things.
Thank you sir.
Well done Gary, as always, very informative.
I must give this a try.
Gee, that's a clever trick there, that folder in the dock idea.
A great informative video tutorial today! Thanks for the visuals. As always thanks for showing us how! Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️
Never realised you could drag tags to the Dock.
not just 'useful', excellent. thanks.
hey this is great the application folder with list view I've been doing this for years! thanks for sharing Gary!! The application folder will be helpful for a new mac user coming from windows, it reminds me of that in windows.
your videos are wonderful, thanks.
Super useful
It's mind-boggling what can be done--thank you!
Thanks for all the useful tips for making the dock more useful and friendly. One question: why put frequently used folders and files in the dock instead of leaving them on the desktop where they can also be easily seen? Maybe I’m just a messy desk kinda person 😉.
One reason would be messy desktop = decreased productivity. Lots of visual distractions. They also then can't be seen behind windows or on full screen apps.
Thanks Gary. A little off the subject but I've been wanting to ask you this for a while. I use a digital projector every day in my teaching. To switch between the mirroring screen on the projector and not, I use the keystroke Fn-Command-Brightness on the touch-bar. I wish there was a way to bring up the Mirror Selection feature on the Touch Bar. Just can't figure it out.
There might be but I don't know of one offhand, sorry. I don't connect to a projector very often so I haven't noticed.
@@macmost Thanks for the reply. Just in case you, or anyone else gives it some thought, when the projector cable is removed and reconnected, the Touch Bar displays this...[ Display Connected: Mirror Displays Extended Desktop ]. Just not sure how to bring up this display on the Touch Bar on demand. Thank you again. Your videos are on my top five of must see on a regular basis.
I do something similar, including to web links. I use custom folder icons to identify them, including one for my favourite commentator as a deep-etched head and shoulders.
You can do the same with folders of links to regular email contacts and messages. It's easy to make deep-etched portrait icons in Preview.
I have another method that I developed for when I set up a weekly magazine which was held on a server. I had a link for all the staff that pointed to an alias that would point to a folder holding the current week's publication, stories, photos and ads. After that went to press, I switched the link on the server to point to the next issue and the completed issue would be moved to the archive. Nobody had to change anything on their Macs. Their links always pointed to the current issue and the archives folder.
Wow! Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you for a very useful video.
gary, how do you create that note with the circled bullets...and check them for completion but they still stay with the notes?? thanks
In the Dock? Or do you mean in an app like Notes? But default Notes doesn't remove items from a list. Reminders does, but you can change that there too.
@@macmost no, i mean in the note app..just like your example in your note vidoeo
@@phat_gunpla_etc Ah, OK. Just that the comment was left on this video about the Dock.
Gary, do you keep your only documents folder in iCloud?
Yes.
Thanks bunches
When I control-click on dock icons, I don't get all the options in the video (display as, sort by, etc.). I just get Open Recent, Options (Keep in Dock, etc.), etc. How do I get the larger menus on the video?
For which icon in the Dock, specifically. For many you'll only see recents and Options. It depends on the app.
Under Snow Leopard on my old first edition MacBook I have the Application folder in my Dock but in Grid view.
List view is just too fussy for fast selection.
On my main MacBook Pro under Mojave I have Recent Applications, again in a Grid view, as my primary launcher.
Thanks
Deep! 🙏
0:20 the MacMost logo disappeared.
Application folder was a default item in the dock in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, when stacks were introduced for the first time. I miss this operating system. It was a time, when a new version of the OS was really bringing new features. And it was beautiful as well, I liked it much more than current candy-like interface.
Help!!! Off subject ! I have a MacBook M1 with 256 GB hard drive, i’m down to 14 GB of free space I currently cannot back up onto an external hard drive at the moment I want to delete stuff like 10 GB worth of stuff nothing changes suggestions please thank you
Can someone tell me how to select multiple files in Finder with icon view? Select + Shift +select works only with list viev and column viev. Second day with macos and it gives me Such a kick. Use it every day many Times in Win10..
With the mouse? Drag a rectangle around those you want.
@@macmost its ok when u choose 10 img, but when its 100 or sth, its easier to choose first 1st and last with keyboard. Is it any option to make it easier, also with touchpad?
@@bst6796 So why not switch to List or Column view then? Just switch to that view to do this task, and then back to Icon view if you really want.
If you add the application folder to show every app in the list, why not just use spot light search. It is quicker and more convenient.
Gary, WHY aren't you CEO of Apple?? It's a good thing I don't live close to you because you would not have time to make videos because of tutoring me 🤣 Thanks as always for a great video
WOW!
You need to update this video the stuff here does not work on my Mac.
this is an older video, but I think everything in it should still work. what are you having trouble with specifically?
@@macmost I was trying to add a TH-cam icon to the dock. I just cannot make it work on this Mac mini. I could not drag the application folders to the dock it would not stick.
@@lonecody First, what are you dragging, exactly? What item, and where is that item, exactly? Second, where are you dragging it to: the left side of the Dock or right side?
@@macmost doesn’t matter where I drag it. It just snaps right back to the panel. I found it in. I find it a lot of videos that I watch concerning stuff like Photoshop or the Mac computer just don’t work anymore. macOS and Photoshop changes things. It’s not a big deal. I thought I saw you do a video on it and then when I tried to search back and find it, I could not. Sometimes the frustration is just not worth the end product you are looking for with a Mac. However, your videos are great. I’ve learned a lot from you. Thank you very much.
@@lonecody It doesn’t sound like you are dragging an ‘app” to the left side as you said “TH-cam icon” and that’s a web site. But without the details I asked for in the last comment I can’t help much.
I don't use the dock, only shortcut for me.I'll watch this for ideas. Do you use the dock?
Yes, I use it to launch apps and to drag and drop files into apps.
I'm not a novice, but I cannot get this to work.
Which part are you having trouble with? What are you doing, and what is not coming out right?
Solid tips, thank you.
Thanks