Yearly Archives: 2011

Hey guys, I am getting ready to dip my toes into Mac-World and purchase a new Mac Mini (which is all that I can reasonably afford, unfortunately) which is $600 (according to the Apple website). Now, unfortunately, they no longer come with an optic drive, so that’ll be ... (7 Comments)

This has just started happening in the last Two weeks. They all look OK in the Finder window,but when i drag them down to the dock they become blurred. They all look fine in the Dock,apart from when i drag them into the Dock. The application items were, VLC and Coloured ... (5 Comments)

I recently took two pictures with the HDR turned on. each pictures looks like there are two or three pictures stacked on top of one another. i have read that in HDR the camera take several pictures and they appear in duplicate or triplicate on your camera. it appears that ... (1 Comment)

Is there a program for a Mac that can measure the performance of hard drive’s, memory, video cards etc? There are many for windows, can’t find one for a mac. —– Barry Dowell ... (4 Comments)

I recently downloaded some TV shows on my AppleTV directly. However, they are not showing up on my iMAC iTunes. How do I make sure they show up on both? In itunes, I went to File/Transfer Purchase from AppleTV but got error message “Check that any firewall software running ... (2 Comments)

Can the iPad camera connection adapter be used to view video and picture files contained on a USB flash drive or a USB connected external hard drive? —– Dion ... (1 Comment)

I was wondering if someone sent you an e-mail with a video attachment, can that video be downloaded and saved to the iPad? —– Dion ... (2 Comments)

The Resume feature in Lion allows you to quit applications and then run them again with your windows intact. Any documents or windows you had open before will open again the next time you use the application. This can be disorienting at first, but it can also be useful. Find out how to quit applications and have them start fresh next time. Find out how to disable the Resume feature if it is not for you.

I’m teaching a class using Keynote. I’m connected to a widescreen monitor, but my presentation is standard, leaving black bars on either side of the display. Is there a way to switch to widescreen presentation without affecting the aspect ratio of graphics within ... (1 Comment)

I recorded a Voice Memo (I am not eure if this is the right English Term)with my iPhone 3G some days ago. Now I try to use it but it seems As there would nö actions Be possible. It is shown with its length in the Memo Overview, but I cm neither Listen to it, shorten it, nor send ... (3 Comments)

Hi, This week my google email stopped on my Iphone. I can look at my account on my PC but the iphone says cannot get mail imap.gmail.comis not responding. verify account settings. Also sometimes it says username or password is incorrect & yet I have not adjusted ... (1 Comment)

Is there a program available (or way) to copy Youtube videos to my Mac legally? Is there a legitimate program that I can buy? —– Mike K ... (5 Comments)

I would like to create a shortcut key (Z) in Firefox that when pressed I could go back to the previous page. —– Ed J ... (1 Comment)

I am trying to create a chart in Numbers that will graph my data only if a checkbox for each specific column is checked. This way I can track many different items in the spreadsheet, then compare trends between different data sets in my chart without needing to either create a ... (1 Comment)

My extra monita doesn’t sleep even after I put my Mac book pro to sleep mode after I’ve done my work. This happen after installing new Lion. I asked Mac support, but they still don’t have the solution. Please let me know if you have any idea. —– Sai ... (4 Comments)

I’m using Mobileme to sync my iCal on Lion with my iPhone 4. On my Ical I have a calendar called ‘Home’ which is ‘On My Mac;’ I want to sync this as well as a sports fixtures calendar to my iphone, but the iphone is syncing only the Mobileme Calendar ... (1 Comment)

I had several large files on my OSX disk, which I moved to the trash. I emptied the trash as well. I would have thought that this would have freed up the disk space, but it didn’t. My OSX disk is down to 25GB. I searched the disk and found all of the trash files are ... (2 Comments)

I have a MacBook and I’m thinking of buying the MacBook Air. Is there an easy way to move apps (not purchased from the Mac App Store) from one to the other? —– Shirl Parker ... (1 Comment)

I had 2 80 gig Hard Drives that I tried to turn into a single 160 Gig HD in order to be able to back up my Internal 160 Gig HD. When I made a RAID it ended up as a single 80 Gig HD. How do I either split the RAID back into 2 80 GIg drives or how do I convert the RAID into a 160 ... (1 Comment)

Steve Jobs, the driving force behind Apple at its start and also for the last decade, resigned as CEO yesterday. In a letter to Apple employees he said he could no longer meet his duties and expectations as CEO, but would like to remain as Chairman of the Board. He recommended COO Tim Cook as his successor, and the Apple board agreed.
Jobs has left the post of CEO several times before on temporary medical leave, each time putting Cook in charge. He has been running the day-to-day at Apple since January. Apple’s site already features Cook’s bio at http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tim-cook.html.