MacMost Newsletter Issue #844 for March 6, 2025

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10 Ways To Save Money When Buying Apple Products

Apple products are expensive, but you can often save a little buy buying refurbished items, using educational discounts, looking for sales at third-party sites, and using other money-saving techniques.
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Club MacMost Early Access: Club MacMost Early Access: Find the Largest Files In the Mac Photos App

If you need to figure out which items in your Mac Photos Library are taking up the most space, you can't do it in the Photos app. But you can create a simple Shortcut.
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Alternatives To Minimizing Windows On a Mac

Minimizing windows in macOS is a common way to deal with Desktop clutter. But many long-time Mac users instead use techniques like app hiding, quitting apps, multiple Desktop Spaces and more instead.
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Club MacMost Exclusive: Club MacMost Exclusive: Blur Photo Backgrounds With Photos and Preview

Here's one way to blur the background of a photo even if you don't have a third-party image editing tool.
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Remove, Blur Or Replace the Background Of a Photo With Pixelmator Pro

You can use Pixelmator Pro to work with photo backgrounds to remove them, replace them with another photo, or blur the background without changing the subject in the foreground.
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Club MacMost Exclusive: Club MacMost Exclusive: Crazy Apple Wish List Revisited

In 2020 I wrote a post here at Patreon listing 8 "crazy" ideas I had that I wish Apple would implement for Macs. I was shocked to stumble upon it just now and see that 5 out of the 8 have come true! So maybe I should list some more crazy ideas that I can check back on in 5 years.
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MacMost Recommendations

I'm often asked about the software and gadgets I use to produce the MacMost videos and in my work as a developer. So I've compiled a list of the products I use and recommend. Check it out. -- Gary

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