Yearly Archives: 2011

In MacMost Now #375, you describe how to merge PDF documents using Preview in Snow Leopard. However, in Lion, this no longer works. I simply cannot get the “plus” when hovering one document over the other. Preview help indicates that you do it the same way as in Snow ... (9 Comments)

Everyone’s been in this situation: you want to return to a web page you visited a few days ago, but can’t remember what site it was on. You can find it pretty easily by searching your Safari history. Just go to History, Show All History and look for the search field at the upper right. Type in keywords to narrow down the search and find the page you are looking for. Since you’ll only see pages you visited, it will be a lot easier than searching the entire web.

Apple began offering iTunes Match in more countries this week, starting with Brazil and including some other countries such as the U.K, France, Australia and New Zealand. However, shortly after appearing for those countries the service disappeared and Apple refunded customers who had signed up. Apparently the service was turned on prematurely. It still remains available in the U.S. and Brazil. But this may indicate that a real international launch is just around the corner.
Apple issued a number of updates this week, including version 10.5.2 update for iTunes and a Thunderbolt display firmware update. Microsoft issued updates to Office for Mac 2011 and the previous version, 2008. They address security and stability issues.

A teacher in Milwaukee is looking to get an iPad for her students who have cognitive disabilities. They would use the iPad to help them communicate and to help them participate in regular classrooms. Join MacMost in supporting this project.

Now here’s a game that is highly addictive. Dragonvale is an ingenious game where you run a breed and raise cute little dragons. Before you know it you are building habitats, decorating your park and contemplating breeding combinations. This game is getting so popular that there are many sites now dedicated to it. It is a freemium game, meaning that you can download it and play for free, with in-app purchasing of items used merely to speed things up. At the very least you need to get this game and try it out, so you know what everyone else is raving about.

“I started using iTunes Match the other day. It works great, but everything I listen to now sounds a little more like Coldplay.”

I created credits for my movie in a separate project in my iMovie library. I thought it would be easy to copy the credits and just paste them in at the end of my project. I can’t find an easy way to do this? Any suggestions? Thank you very much. —– Karen ... (4 Comments)

How do I get my pictures that I have on my desktop Mac to my laptop? I have Lion and cloud. —– Jerry Nebergall ... (1 Comment)

Is there a tutorial on encrypting a Time Machine EHD? (By the way, I just discovered this site. It’s great.) —– mctavish ... (1 Comment)

I am currently using Lion on a MacBook Pro. Crossover has been working fine, but it does admit that it will work with only a finite set of apps. Are there more apps like Crossover, that does not require me to install the whole windows operating system? —– Grant Ward ... (5 Comments)

The Dictionary app in your Applications folder can not only tell you the definitions of regular words, but it also contains a special Apple dictionary to help you understand your Mac. You can look up Mac-related terms and get quick definitions. You can also use its Wikipedia function to get even more detailed information about technology.

I have my updated resume saved as an e mail file. It is in word format. However, it got saved as an .rft.rft file. Now I am unable to transfer it to the website of a potential job. How can I transfer it to their website? —– Michael ... (2 Comments)

You can move your iPhoto library to an external drive easily by simply dragging the iPhoto library package to another location. But keep in mind that external drives are slower than internal ones, and networked drives even more so. You can also create multiple iPhoto libraries, storing seldom-accessed photos elsewhere.

I have a picture of a party that I had taken on my phone. I am not sure if I imported into my comp. office names are different, can I somehow do a image scan search to serif the picture is in my comp. if I had the same file name I could search the file in the name. But there is a ... (1 Comment)

I’m using Safari to work in a web-based educational portal. I’ve been careful to clear cookies and history and minimize apps running in background. When I select/copy text from one text window and paste to another, all I get is random text from some earlier ... (3 Comments)

Not sure how long this has been going on, but when I visit websites, the pictures do not load…like blank areas on the screen. Have the 2010 MBA 11″ with 4gig of RAM. What am I doing wrong? Must be something simple, but I cannot get them to load….thanks..love your ... (2 Comments)

I have two Macs, and probably will be adding a third, two iPhone 4, iPod touch, and iPad. I’d like a very reliable home NAS unit with redundancy. Probably a two drive system at LEAST one main backup drive and the other which creates a back up of the main drive in the NAS ... (3 Comments)

Gary, I am not completely sure of the process to reinstall OS X Lion. I have been having a problem with my MBP going to sleep mode (won’t do it by command or lid closing). I can shut down and all apps seem to work fine. The only big deal I did recently was to test a clone ... (2 Comments)

When I connect my iPad to my iMac iTunes does not open automatiCally as it doesn’t appear to recognise it. When I open iTunes the iPad is there and syncs. I have just bought Apple TV and it recognises the iMac but not the iPad so I can’t play games etc. Any thoughts ... (8 Comments)

Tab stops allow you to align text in word processing programs. They have been around for a while, but if you have only started using word processors recently, you may have overlooked them in favor of tables and other layout elements. Tab stops are a quick and easy way to display data neatly inside a document.