Yearly Archives: 2011

Check out Gary's list of apps that he suggests most people install on a new Mac on the first day. The list includes some utilities and browser plug-ins. You can get the links and make your own suggestions at https://macmost.com/must-have-lion-apps

I am very new to the Mac world but though your wedsite I am slowly learning. I have taken digital picture made an iMovie and now i need to make a good quality dvd. I did transfer it to idvd but am very unhappy with the quality. Plus help in simple terms. —– Maxine ... (7 Comments)

Gary, Since installing Lion, whenever my MAC comes out of sleep mode it takes much longer to boot back up – 30 seconds and the color wheel, instead of instantly. Do have any idea why my MAC seems to have slowed down. It is a huge bummer. I really got used to the ... (2 Comments)

This just started, but it seems the MBP does not really go to sleep. This happens when I shut the lid or do so in the Apple menu. The screen blanks, but the machine is still on and seems to get very hot while just sitting there. The MBP is usually plugged in, so the battery ... (5 Comments)

Been trying to stream Netflix on my apple tv, Getting to select the movie and all, but when its time to play keep getting a message — (Have to get an upgrade for this device) Note, Netflix is working great on my Computer, I have a Mac Mini —– Marc ... (2 Comments)

In addition to using DropBox to sync files between your Macs, you can also use it to share files with friends. You can make a file public and provide your friends with a link to it. You can also share a folder between friends with DropBox accounts. There is even a special photo galleries folder that will allow you to share photos easily.

I have no problem exporting “Camera Roll” photos from iPhone to my MAC but cannot export photos from iPhone that are in albums? Any ideas? —– Garry ... (3 Comments)

Is there a good way to do a search in Time Machine? It seems that time machine is limited to knowing when the document was created. I can only search each backup, which can be a problem at times. Is there a way to do a search thru all the backups? As an example, lets say that for ... (1 Comment)

I have lost all my contacts from my address book on my mac and on mobile me, is there any way of recovering them. Unfortunately I don’t think I have backed them up anywhere. —– Jim harrison ... (6 Comments)

Firstly, I love this site. i switched to mac 2 months ago and you’ve made my experience/transition so much easier. Thank you. I just bought the new (may 2011) imac and its only been like 2 months and my hard drive is full to capacity. I store all my music, pix & ... (9 Comments)

Will machines running older versions of OSX (i.e. 10.5) be able to view drives encrypted by 10.7 (given you know the password)? —– Alex ... (1 Comment)

Due to eyesight problems I was wondering was it possible to improve the size of type on the screen without affecting the resolution because I don’t want to interfere with the Apple settings on that.I know that there is a facility to double tap mouse or another keyboard way ... (2 Comments)

These ringtones are completely free to use on your iPhone or any phone! The standard iPhone format is .m4r. Just download those and drag and drop them into iTunes. Then make sure your iPhone settings are set to copy those to your iPhone automatically. We’ve also got .mp3 files for each that you can use to preview the rintones in your browser.

Alla Turca	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone
Figaro	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone
First Forty	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone
Piano 21	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone
Requiem	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone
Sonata C	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone
Symphony 25	Preview as MP3	Download as M4R iPhone Ringtone

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Ringtones Copyright 2008 CleverMedia. These ringtones were created by MacMost (CleverMedia) and may be used for free by anyone. However, they may not be redistributed in any way, free or otherwise. Please direct others to this site where they can download the ringtones for free.

What happens to my bootcamp partition when OSX 10.7 is installed, in place of OSX 10.6.8? Does the partition just go away? —– david kopanski ... (1 Comment)

Before turning off the computer, I always quit all open programs including Safari. But it is still open the next time the computer is turned on! How do I stop this happening? —– John McIntyre ... (2 Comments)

I’ve got a good one here. Somehow, my address book data has been corrupted and I cannot restore a backup to it. Still not sure how the data was corrupted, but the only way I noticed it was when I went to it on the iPhone, nothing there. I’ve got backups from time ... (11 Comments)

On checking for updates,the mac downloaded a Thunderbolt one and then told me I needed to restart.When I went to do so, it told me that other people logged on might lose unsaved data and I should log out everyone – which would be me and my wife.However I couldn’t ... (2 Comments)

Hi Gary, Having done a bit of work setting up my account, I turned to my wife’s account.First thing I noticed was that she had no applications folder on the dock, so I went to where it is and pulled logo down to dock.What happened was that the logo for the address book came ... (2 Comments)

A portable Mac using Lion and Time Machine creates local snapshots of new and modified files when it cannot access its TIme Machine drive. These local snapshots can be used to recover deleted or mistakenly modified files. They take advantage of unused space on your hard drive and adjust according to how much space you have available.

If my school has a web server and I create a web site on it can I create a QR code to place around the school so that anyone in the school can scan it and get to the site? If so, How —– Lloyd Miner ... (1 Comment)