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28/8/2026 0 Comments Skitch will stop working soon on Mac - so here's an alternative for annotating and pixelating images For almost as long as I have run iTandCoffee (now 14.5 years), I have used and recommended a product call Skitch (by Evernote).
It allows you to quickly annotate and image with arrows, text, shapes, etc. And it also allows quick pixelation of any part of the image that you want to hide. I have used it nearly every working day when creating documentation and providing step by step instructions. Sadly, Skitch will no longer work with the next Mac operating system, which is due to be released soon. So I needed to find an alternative, as quick and easy annotation is essential for my day-to-day work.
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 If you have added photos to an iMovie project on an iPad, the default style when those photos are shown in the movie is probably the Ken Burns style.
With the Ken Burns style, your photos have a bit of movement and/or zoom in and out. But sometimes that movement or zoom is not quite right and you want to change it. This is especially important when you are featuring a person or people in the slideshow. Here's how you can change the movement and zoom for each photo in the iMovie app on the iPad. (And here's a separate Handy Hint that covers how to do this on a Mac, using either the Photos or iMovie app.) 28/8/2026 0 Comments Customising Slideshow on a Mac - adjusting slide movement and zoom of Ken Burns effect If you have set up a slideshow in photos on the Mac, one of the nice styles of slideshow is the Ken Burns style, where your photos have a bit of movement and or zoom in and out.
But sometimes that movement or zoom is not quite right and you want to change it. This is especially important when you are featuring a person or people in the slideshow, because the default zoom/movement can often chop off heads and just not be positioned correctly. Here's how you can easily change the movement and zoom for each photo in the slideshow in Photos on the Mac. (And we also take a quick look at how to create the Slideshow.) And we also look at how you can do the same thing in iMovie on the Mac. (And here's also a separate Handy Hint that covers how to do this on an iPad, using the iMovie app.)  What is the Clipboard?
It is an area of your Mac's memory that stores whatever you last copied - ready to be pasted somewhere. If you copy again, the content of the clipboard changes so that the next paste will use the latest content that you copied. This could be text, an image, a file, etc. But what if you realise that you need to go back to something you copied a little while ago - perhaps something that you no longer have access to copy again? Here's how easy it is to access your Clipboard's history on your Mac  Late last week, I had a Telehealth appointment with my doctor. This doctor's clinic uses HotDoc for appointment bookings - an app that makes it so easy to make a time to see the doctor.
So when I got this email today from HotDoc, I opened it, briefly read it and thought it sounded reasonable that there had been an over-charging for the very brief phone appointment I had with the doctor, and I clicked the 'Confirm and Process Refund'. But the request for a piece of information seemed strange, and this stopped my in my tracks.  Only last week, I had decided I would purchase a new iPad Pro to replace my 6yo iPad Pro, as it was really starting to mis-behave and was very slow.
I had planned to make this purchase on Thursday 25th June - even adding the purchase to my 'Cart' in the Apple online store to see when it could be delivered. Instead, I decided I would visit the Apple Store to purchase on next day, Friday. On Friday morning (very early), I woke and saw the overnight announcement from Apple of a significant price rises for various devices, effective immediately. Apple's website already showed that the iPad I had planned to purchase had risen by a whopping $300!! It was still very early, so I decided check the JB Hi Fi website and found that, luckily, they had not yet applied Apple's increases to their prices. So I was able to jump online and arrange a click and collect at the old price! Phew. (Their prices have since increased.) Having collected my new iPad on Friday, I then set about getting it up and running. Here are some issues I encountered and some important Settings that I had to tweak to make it work the way my previous iPad worked.  A client contacted me to ask about a perceived problem she had with the Messages app.
She had received a text with a link, and had tried to tap the link on her iPhone, but found that the link wasn't active. She wanted to know what was causing this 'problem'. In fact, this is a feature and not a problem, designed to protect you from scams.  As many of you will be aware, I recently moved house. As part of that move, we sold nearly all of our old furniture - most on Facebook Marketplace.
It was a painful process - as anyone who has sold on Marketplace will know. One of the things that really seemed to help with selling the furniture items was presenting in a styled room - rather than just taking a picture of it on its own. Unfortunately, with furniture not is its usual place, presenting it styled was not an option. But ChatGPT helped with this.  If you have an iCloud email address, it is very easy to add up to 3 other 'alias' email addresses to your iCloud account.
Emails sent to these alias addresses will all come into the main iCloud email account, but you will see which address the email came to. If you use the Mail app, you will be able to send from any of those alias email addresses by adjusting the From address.  This is a problem that I see so frequently with iTandCoffee clients who have Gmail email accounts.
They use the Mail app on their iPhone and/or iPad to manage their Gmail emails, but find that they only have a box symbol in the Mail app instead of a bin symbol. This means that, instead of deleting unwanted emails, they are archiving them - which means they are not being deleted! Very frustrating. Here's how to quickly resolve this issue - and you'll need to do this on both the iPad and iPhone. |
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