MacMost Newsletter Issue #623 for December 10, 2020

10 Actually Useful Things You Can Do With the MacBook Pro Touch Bar

The MacBook Pro Touch Bar can be a useful productivity tool if you take the time to train yourself to use it. The first steps are to learn what it is capable of and how to customize it.
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Use Hover Text To Make It Easier To Read and Type On a Mac

Hover Text is an Accessibility feature of Catalina and Big Sur that allows you to see the text your cursor is hovering over in a larger size. You can also see the text you are typing into fields or even apps like Pages. It is great for those that occasionally find text in an app to be too small to read.
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Dealing With Big Sur Spotlight Previews and Other Problems

Spotlight in macOS Big Sur isn't as useful as it used to be. You don't het previews by default and suggestions get in the way of actual results. Which there's no fix for this problems, there are some workarounds that can make Spotlight more useful.
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What's New In the macOS Messages App In Big Sur

The Messages app has several new features in Big Sur, including inline replies, mentions, pinning conversations, custom icons and names for group conversations and more.
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MacMost Live: Creating a Newsletter In Pages

Watch as I build a printable PDF newsletter in Mac Pages. I'll use Page Layout mode to add tex boxes, link them, add images, captions, graphic elements and more.
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News & Notes: December 3 to December 10, 2020

New AirPods Max Headphones Launched

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