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15 tips and tricks for Mac beginners

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When you first get your Mac, there's a learning curve as you navigate through its features, set up apps like Messages and Mail, and customize your desktop. After some time, you'll be ready to level up your efficiency by learning useful shortcuts. That's why we've put together a handy list of tips and tricks specifically tailored for macOS beginners, helping you accomplish tasks faster and enhance your overall Mac experience.

How to use Express Transit to quickly pay for rides via Apple Pay on iPhone and Apple Watch

Thanks to the Express Transit feature that's available through Apple Pay, you can hop on the tube, buses, trams, light rail and overground rail in major cities and pay for your public transit journeys just by holding your iPhone or Apple Watch close to the contactless NFC terminal, no need to press any buttons or verify with Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode whatsoever.

VideoProc for Mac: how to convert MKV to MP4 video without quality loss [sponsor]

VideoProc is a powerful 4K video editor and converter for Mac and Windows that packs in a speedy GPU-accelerated engine and supports a a bunch of media formats. In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll cover doing MKV to MP4 video conversions with VideoProv for those times when you want to enjoy native playback of ripped DVDs and other MKV-encoded video in an Apple-friendly format on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac and Apple TV devices.