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The MacMost Newsletter: Issue #595
May 28, 2020
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10 Ways To Speed Up a Slow Mac
Here are 10 ways you can speed up a slow Mac. There's no reason to put up with your Mac being slow. Often this is caused by an app or background process using too many resources, the lack of free hard drive space, a failing drive, or many other reasons.
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How To Do a Live Broadcast Of Your Mac's Screen Over YouTube Or Facebook Using OBS Studio
While it is fairly easy to do a YouTube or Facebook live broadcast from your camera, combining your screen and camera takes additional work. You can use the free OBS Studio to combine things and add additional graphics and text to create a professional live broadcast without much work.
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Creating An Information Notification With Shell Scripts And Automator
You can go to the Terminal and use simple one-line shell scripts to get various pieces of information such as the date and time, your Internet IP address and your Wi-Fi network name. Using Automator, you can incorporate these bits of information into a simple notification that appears whenever you press a keyboard shortcut.
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How To Use the AssistiveTouch Button On Your iPhone or iPad
The AssistiveTouch button is a feature of your iPhone or iPad that gives you another way to access features usually available through a gesture, physical button or complex set of steps. You can use it to simply replace the old Home button, or access other functions when a physical control on an iPhone is inaccessible or broken.
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10 Ways To Quickly Access Your Most Important Folders On a Mac
If you are working on a project and using one folder to open and save documents all the time, you can quickly access that folder a variety of ways. You can add it to the Dock, Finder sidebar and toolbar, create keyboard shortcuts, and much more.
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News & Notes: May 21 to May 28, 2020
The Tech Enthusiast Hour Podcast: 100th Episode With Video!
Prepping for space launch, playing with green screens, hankering over new cameras and helping archive the digital world. For this special 100th episode, there is also a video version! Subscribe at iTunes...
Quick Tip: Extract Images From Pages and Keynote
If you have old Pages or Keynote documents with images in them, but have lost the original image files, you can extract them. The trick is to select the image or shape with an image in it, then go to the Format sidebar, then Image. Then drag and drop the small icon under File Info to the Desktop or a Finder window.
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