Gestures

List of keyboard shortcuts for QuickTime Player on Mac

MacBook keyboard movie media- QuickTime Player keyboard shortcuts

You might use QuickTime Player on your Mac to watch movies, edit videos, or record your screen. And for the various tasks you can perform in this handy tool comes a bunch of keyboard shortcuts.

For managing the app window, movie viewing and playback, and editing videos, here are the keyboard shortcuts for QuickTime Player on Mac you can use.

How to quickly create subtasks or indent list items in Notes on iOS

Notes Indent Outdent iPhone

If you use the Notes app on your iPhone or iPad, you probably already know that it’s a convenient app for making lists. You can make numbered or bulleted lists for shopping, to-dos, or whatever you need.

The nice thing about creating lists in Notes is that you can indent your list items. This is terrific for creating subtasks or nested lists. And while indenting list items isn’t a difficult task, we have a tip that will make it even easier.

Here’s how to quickly indent list items in Notes on iPhone and iPad.

10 Magic Keyboard trackpad gestures all iPad Pro owners should know

11-inch and 12.9-inch M2 iPad Pro with Apple's Magic Keyboard, set agains a dark background

iPadOS offers the power of Multi-Touch technology to compatible trackpad and mouse devices. It gives you another way to use your iPad apart from touch and ink (Apple Pencil).

iPadOS supports a few dozen gestures for trackpads and mice, but we've distilled Apple's list down to ten essential gestures for the Magic Keyboard (they work on other trackpads) that all iPad Pro owners should memorize to save time and increase productivity.

AVPlayerPlus supercharges iOS’ native video player with useful new gestures

Whenever you tap on a video in the mobile Safari web browser, such as on YouTube or otherwise, iOS displays that video in a familiar interface called the AVPlayer, which appears in the screenshot example above.

Like most video players, iOS’ native AVPlayer provides only the fundamental controls to and get things done, but with the help of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called AVPlayerPlus by iOS developer Tr1fecta, you can enjoy several more luxury controls in the native AVPlayer interface that Apple never bothered to provide to you out of the box.

How to use the new text editing gestures on iPhone and iPad

Copy on iPadOS Notes

As you may have seen, or even noticed, with iOS 13 and iPadOS came some cool new ways to work with your text. You can now use gestures to select, cut, copy, paste, undo, and redo. Plus, you can easily move the cursor where you want it and scroll faster with scroll bar scrubbing.

So how do all of these new text editing gestures work on iPhone and iPad? We’re here to explain them all.

How to master Apple’s new swipe keyboard

Apple's QuickType keyboard on iOS 13 and iPadOS supports gesture typing so you can swipe from one letter to the next in one continuous motion, with Siri intelligence and machine learning making reliable predictions as to what you're trying to type. Follow along to master gestural typing as iDB shows you how to set up and use the new iPhone swipe keyboard.

How to right-click on Mac (and what to do if you can’t)

Mouse Settings Point and Click Mac

If you’ve owned a Mac for years, then this isn’t anything new to you. But there are plenty of Windows users out there making the move to Mac. And one thing you may struggle with as a new Mac user is how to right-click. It sounds simple enough, but there is a difference from Windows to Mac when you need to right-click.

This tutorial explores all the practical ways to right-click or, as Apple calls it, a secondary click on your Mac using a mouse, trackpad, or keyboard.

Respring your device by pulling down in the Settings app with Dragspring

Albeit released a very long time ago, one of my favorite utilitarian jailbreak tweaks of all time was PullToRespring because it made it incredibly easy for me to respring my jailbroken handset on demand.

For a while there, it seemed like tweaks of this nature became a thing of the past, but iOS developer ConorTheDev has breathed new life into the concept with the release of a new free jailbreak tweak called Dragspring.

These tweaks port features from Apple’s ‘notched’ handsets to other iOS devices

Notched handsets such as the iPhone X, XR, XS, and XS Max sport unique features and gestures that aren’t available on non-notched handsets such as the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and earlier. With that in mind, iOS developer Ryan Nair figured he’d do something about that, and a pair of free jailbreak tweaks dubbed Poseidon and Poseidon-Rounded were conceived.

These tweaks port many of the most sought-after features and gestures available on notched handsets to non-notched handsets, including the following: