Update: Several readers have emailed me and asked why I don't just use the Notes app to send text from my Mac to my iPhone. Yes, the Notes app works well for syncing text, but I use Reminders because ...

This setting will automatically remove older messages, keeping your conversations manageable. Note: Deleting messages from your Mac does not delete them from other Apple devices unless you have ...

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 ...

Macworld Your Mac is full of surprises, and even many years after first owning one, you can still find yourself learning new ...

Bare Bones Software is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its flagship product, the text editor BBEdit, an application that has been with the Mac community since the days of System 6. Bare Bones ...

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 ...

Text snippets are one of the most useful “unknown” features on Mac and iOS. They let you type a few letters, and have them expand into a whole word, sentence or paragraph. You can use them to type, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We love text expansion on our Macs, but we've always assumed TextExpander was the best option. With some capable challengers, we decided to find out if any of them could dethrone the reigning champion ...