First things first. Let’s fire up that Mac and dive into the magic of the zoom function, which lets you zoom in and out using keyboard shortcuts on your Mac. There are three main keyboard shortcuts ...

Think about the words and phrases on our computers that we type over and over again, without even thinking about it. Emails and site logins are just a few of these frequently keyed fields, but there ...

You can easily get your Mac to read text aloud to you by enabling the feature in your computer's settings. Once you turn on the feature, simply highlight the text you want to be read aloud, and then ...

Receiving and sending iMessages and text messages with your Mac is a convenient and useful feature. Let’s look at how to make sure it’s all set up and running properly. There are a couple of steps to ...

You don’t need any other apps or websites to translate text on your phone. Image: Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can instantly translate text anywhere on your iPhone ...

Converting voice to text is a handy way to dictate speeches, convert presentations on the fly and create written documents when your hands are otherwise unavailable ...

One of the oldest and most-revered pieces of software perpetually under development for the Mac was updated today to version 9. That's right: the text editor that many of you have been using since ...

On the surface, Hog Bay Software’s $25 FoldingText ( Mac App Store link) is a basic text editor. In fact, if you don’t dig too deep, you could easily be fooled into thinking that FoldingText is too ...

Sometimes you want to send a file, URL, text snippet, or image from your Mac to your iPhone (or vice versa). I generally use email for this purpose, but Mac OS X Hints reader NaOH-Lye found another ...

In macOS Monterey, Apple's Live Text feature can automatically recognize text when it appears in an image in Safari, Photos, Preview, Quick Look, and elsewhere, allowing you to copy or share it. If ...

Keyboard snippets make your life way easier. Until now, though, Apple’s Text Replacement function proved a royal pain to use. It never synced properly between devices, and it didn’t support ...

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