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Tips, tricks and recommendations: October 2019
In this issue:
- In Focus: What to Know about Catalina, the new Mac OS
- App of the Month: Keynote
- Mac Tech Tip: Using COMMAND and SHIFT keys for selecting multiple items
- iPhone/iPad Tech Tip: The Awesome "Control Center"
- About migformac

Catalina was released this week. But you might want to wait to install it....
To get an overview of all of Catalina's new features, go to https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/.
ALERT FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 USERS! Office for Mac 2011 is a 32-bit application and this suite of apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) will NOT work with Catalina. You will either need to use Mac's Pages for word processing or purchase a new version of Office for Mac. No 32-bit apps will run on Catalina.
In Mojave, you can check to see if your applications are 32-bit or 64-bit: Go to Apple icon (top left corner of Desktop)--About This Mac--System Report--Applications (under Software category). Then look under the 64-bit column. If a "no" appears, then it's a no-go on Catalina.

You can include text, tables, charts, shapes, photos, movies and audio files.
Best part: it is free on all Apple products: computers and mobile devices!
Here's more on Keynote: https://www.apple.com/keynote/
To select a group of CONSECUTIVE items (like images in your Photo Library):
1) Select the first item in a series of items
2) Hold down the SHIFT KEY
3) Select the last item in the series
4) Delete/move the selected group
With photos, there will be a blue outline around all of the selected images. Once selected, you can delete/move the entire group.
To select a group of NON-CONSECUTIVE items:
1) Select one item (a photo or document) that you want to delete/move
2) Hold down the COMMAND KEY
3) Select the other items by "cherry picking" in any order
4) Delete/move the selected group
Here's an Apple Support page on this topic: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/select-items-mchlp1378/10.14/mac/10.14

To access Control Center, swipe up from the bottom of your screen (with iPhone X and later, swipe down from the top-right edge).
I always use Control Center for taking photos....unlock the phone, swipe to pull up Control Center and hit the camera icon!
Other frequent actions:
- Set my wake alarm
- Turn on the flashlight
- View current time around the world with World Clock
- Set a timer
- Do a math calculation
- Turn on and off Airplane Mode, Wifi and Bluetooth
- Mute and unmute music playing
- Lock or unlock screen orientation
- Set Do Not Disturb preferences
- Mirror the iPhone screen to my Apple TV
The other neat thing about Control Center is that many controls have multiple actions. For example, when you touch and hold the camera icon, it give you 4 action options: Take Selfie, Record Video, Take Portrait, Take Portrait Selfie. If you touch and hold the Flashlight, it gives you 4 levels of brightness!
How cool is that? Check it out: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-and-customize-control-center-iph59095ec58/ios
About migformac
Feel free to call or email me if you have questions: mig@migformac.com.