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So far Ben Rosenthal has created 329 blog entries.

I’m Baaaaack!

I made it across the country on a bicycle, which weighed in at 111 pounds with all the personal and group gear I carried. There was an adventure every day, as you might surmise from reading my journal. From Coast… Mom joined me at the beginning of this adventure on my there-and-back ride from Williamsburg [...]

2024-01-30T23:19:52-08:00August 15th, 2022|Mac Mondays|

Where’s Ben?

Want to keep track of me while I’m bicycling across the United States this summer? Details about the trip, including links to track my realtime location and ride statistics, read my stories and reflections, and explore the route and towns I’ll visit, are on my website and outlined below. Follow My Location On riding days, [...]

2024-01-30T23:08:14-08:00May 2nd, 2022|Mac Mondays|

Mac Hot Tips #2

Welcome to Mac Mondays #175, the last edition before my summer 2022 sabbatical. Today, we bring to light a few Mac features that make the fairer platform special and support your productivity and flexibility. Transparencify Backgrounds Preview is the stock Mac application that opens PDFs and graphic images. One of its hidden gems [...]

2024-01-30T23:01:35-08:00April 18th, 2022|Mac Mondays|

How to Ask for Help

When you need help with technology, are you up on the lingo? Do you provide enough detail about the context and your experience? Do you compose a subject that summarizes your question? Apple provides some great documentation on how to submit effective bug reports. This is also immensely helpful in directing how you might ask me [...]

2024-01-30T22:33:38-08:00April 4th, 2022|Mac Mondays|

Focus

Focus, introduced in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey, is a way to specify which people and/or applications may notify you during various activities. This is more powerful than Do Not Disturb, which by default permits no notifications. Create a Focus You can create a Focus from scratch or choose from one of Apple’s templates [...]

2024-01-30T22:26:29-08:00March 28th, 2022|Mac Mondays|

Personal Tracking

In preparation for my Trans America bike ride, I’ve identified three ways to keep track of my exercise, location, and stories during my journey across the United States. This will satisfy my drive to measure my physical activities, share my discoveries along the way, and enable friends and family to answer the question, “Where’s [...]

2024-01-30T22:20:16-08:00March 22nd, 2022|Mac Mondays|

Scan Documents

Did you know you can use your iPhone or iPad to scan documents? Rather than taking photos, you can capture multipage paper documents straight to PDF files. Open Files Oddly, Apple’s only documentation on this feature directs users to open Notes, where you can embed a document in a note. I prefer to use Files. I’m [...]

2024-01-30T22:10:10-08:00March 14th, 2022|Mac Mondays|

Escape to Get Out

One of the likely least used keys on your keyboard is Escape, abbreviated “esc” in the top left corner. Here are some ways to add it to your workflow and maybe increase efficiency when the going gets tough. Cancel a Dialog In many dialog boxes and modal windows, one of the button choices [...]

2024-01-30T17:35:16-08:00February 28th, 2022|Mac Mondays|
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