Everyone takes videos on their iPhone, and sometimes they are so long — and parts so boring — that your friends fall asleep before it’s over. Well, I have the solution, and your friends will think you’re a hotshot Hollywood film producer.

When you shoot a video on your iPhone, it’s also saved on your Mac computer. So fire up your Mac and open up the Photo App. Find your video clip and drag it to your desktop. Close the Photo app. On your desktop, click on the video clip and the Quicktime player automatically opens. Now click on Edit at the top and choose Trim. Below, a yellow line appears.

Now you can place your mouse on the big, thick yellow ends and move your mouse to the right or left. That will trim the video of the part you want to save. When done, click on Trim. Now click on File at the top left of the screen and click on Save. A box appears where you can give it a name and a place to save the clip.

So bust out the popcorn and invite the crowd over for your premier blockbuster!

People ask me all the time how to find my home or request my address, and while driving over, they usually end up next door at the neighbor’s house and kindly inform that they’re at the wrong place. Well, I have a solution for that.

What I did was stand out in front of my place, and with my iPhone, I took a photo from the street. Then I edited the picture using the markup tool and added text to the picture with my address on it. Now, when somebody wants my address, I text or e-mail them the picture that has my address on it.

To set this up, after you take a photo of your place, open up the Photos App on the MacBook Pro. When your photo appears, choose Edit at the top right, then click on the circle with three dots in it. That’s the markup tool. Now look for the box with an “A” in it. That’s the Text tool where you can type in your address. When done, click on Save changes.

Now your neighbors won’t have to wake up telling them they have the wrong address!

A client came over the other day who is staying at the Hyatt. When she opened up her laptop to check her e-mail, a Russian name appeared where she signed in, and typing in her password didn’t work. Bringing the laptop over to my place, I first asked her if she opened it up at the airport, and she said yes. I removed the hard drive and was able to open it up; what we saw was that all her information was erased, and the only thing on there was 50 pictures of a Russian family.

I ended up telling her that all her data — which included passwords, bank accounts and credit card information — was probably hacked by this Russian person while traveling through the airport.

I stress to everybody who is walking though an airport to keep their laptops turned off.

Here is a neat trick you might want to try on your Mac. Open up any app, and on the top right corner, hold down the Option key; with your mouse, drag the corner up — pretty cool!

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