Yearly Archives: 2011

I have a clip in i movie11 with a Kens Burn effect at the end of that clip i want to freeze the last frame so i can fade up to another identical frame with a photo shop effect. I tried the tip that someone mention in iMovie 9 but nothing comes up saying add freeze ... (1 Comment)

When I command click to open a new link sometimes it will open in a new tab and view it and other times it will open the new tab but stay in the current tab/view. Conversely the shift/command click will have the opposite effect. Is this a “Feature” of Safari 5.1? Or ... (1 Comment)

Reflecting back on Steve Jobs' life, here are seven things that I admired about this self-made man. He was an innovator, improver, showman, and and enthusiast. We was also imperfect and uncompromising.

I am new to Macs and bought an iMac in June. I installed Lion in July. Since I installed Lion I am unable to open any files, photos etc. by double-clicking. In fact, nothing that previously opened with a double-click opens that way now, I have to do it the long way round. I can ... (2 Comments)

I have a few questions about the new iPhone4S: 1. Will it operate on Sprint’s CDMA network? A source told me the phone won’t work on Sprint’s CDMA network, instead it will work off Sprint’s Wi-Max network. That seemed kind of odd, but he was pretty sure ... (4 Comments)

Here’s a school in a high poverty area of Chicago that has 30 old MacBooks. They use them every day. The problem is that a few of them are out of commission because the batteries are getting too old. Lets help them get new batteries so they can once again get full use out of these MacBooks. Join MacMost in supporting this project.

QR Codes are becoming common enough now that you probably want to make sure you have a free QR code reader app on your iPhone. The very simple Scan app works just fine and I have been using it whenever curiosity gets the better of me.

In Lion you can resize most windows by grabbing any edge and dragging. But if you hold down modifier keys you can make resizing behave in different ways. A regular drag on an edge will move only that edge. Hold down the Shift key and three edges will resize, with the opposite edge remaining steady. Hold down Option and the current edge and opposite edge will move. How down both Option and Shift and all four edges will move, with the center of the window remaining fixed.

Apple Co-Founder, Chairman and former CEO Steven P. Jobs died yesterday at the age of 56. He was recognized as the driving force behind Apple’s first and latest decades of success.
High school friend Stephen Wozniak and Jobs founded Apple in 1976 producing the world’s first successful personal computer. Jobs went on to oversee the development of the Macintosh computer before leaving Apple in the 80s. During his absence he turned Pixar into the leading animated movie studio, later purchased by Disney. He returned to Apple in the 90s to push Apple to new heights with a string of popular products: the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Apple also changed the music and retail industries during that time with iTunes and Apple Stores.

Many internet articles state to use journaling on external hard drives used for system cloning or backups but don’t use journaling for external media drives (loss of performance with large video files). Other articles claim loss of performance on media drives used to be a ... (2 Comments)

hi Gary, in snow leapord I was able to download a flv video to save on my computer for later watching, I was able to right click it, and click open with- quick time player,then I was able to save it (file, save as ) a quicktime movie. In lion that disappeared, I only see ... (5 Comments)

We’ve been getting this error message quite a lot lately while trying to access movies on our Mac Mini. We’ve done some homework and found some temp fixes (holding down arrow and menu to reset the ATV) that worked once. Recently while experiencing the problem, I tried ... (1 Comment)

Will Siri be available on iPhone 4 or just the 4s ? Thanks simon —– Simon Yates ... (1 Comment)

Hi I wonder if it’s possible to change the angle of the side by side video in iMovies. like how apple WWC presentation usually are —– Hashim ... (1 Comment)

It will not show up on macbook pro 13 inch —– macDaddy8909 ... (6 Comments)

Apple announced the new iPhone 4s. The new phone will include a faster processor, better camera and come with the ability to listen and respond to voice commands and take dictation. The new phone comes out on October 14. It will also be available on Sprint for the first time. iOS 5 and iCloud will come out on October 12 for some older iOS devices.

Hi Gary – I’m trying to steam photos in iPhoto to the Apple TV and it will not recognize all photos in that application. The only ones it sees is the pictures that were imported awhile ago and not the current ones from the phone or recently imported. Any ... (2 Comments)

I just upgraded from Leopard on my 2006 iBook to Lion on my newly purchased MacBook Pro. I noticed that there’s a slider button on the bottom right corner of Finder windows. The slider adjusts the size of icons in the window SOMETIMES, but most of the time it does nothing. ... (3 Comments)

There are some odd and unusual things on your Mac that you can do with the Terminal. You can create banners, use your screen saver as your desktop background, look at interesting, daily calendars, and play hidden games.

Thank you for your excellent website and tutorials. I have recently encrypted my hard drive with time machine and now the start up screen when i log in looks different and the Mac now takes longer to boot up. Is this normal from your experience? —– Luis do Nascimento ... (2 Comments)