Ross McKillop

How to Take Screenshots With Drop-Shadows in macOS

By / January 23, 2021

This is a brief one, and many of you will know about it already. If you use Apple Key + Shift + 4 to take screenshots, hold down the Space bar at the end of that combination. Your cursor will change from the crosshairs to a “camera” – which you can use to take a screenshot of an application window. And those screenshots will have a nice drop-shadow – something that the screenshot software I used to use (InstantShot!) does not include.

screenshot without drop-shadow

screenshot with drop-shadow

How to transfer Outlook auto-complete addresses to a new computer

By / January 26, 2021

If you’re one of the millions of people using Microsoft Outlook, either at home or at the office, you’ve probably had to move your email from one computer to another at some point in time. Transferring Outlook emails, calendar, contacts and tasks is a fairly simple procedure, but it would also be nice to transfer the autocomplete addresses we’ve come to depend on.

In case you’re not sure what I am talking about, autocomplete is when you open a new email form and begin typing in an address into the To: box:

outlook autocomplete

Notice that I typed the letter c and several Outlook contacts automatically appeared below. These are addresses that I have previously sent emails to and that’s why they show up. This is extremely useful if someones email address is very different from their name because all you have to remember is there name instead of “greek_god109293@supermail.com”! …

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