Yearly Archives: 2011

As one example, when I print from Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, I see both the wristwatch icon and the spinning beachball, one after another. If memory serves, the wristwatch dates pretty far back in Macintosh history whereas the beachball is more recent. What can one infer from ... (1 Comment)

I’m trying to send a pages document from my iPhone and the corresponding invoice from numbers. Is it possible to send both of them in the same e-mail or do I have no choice but to send them in two separate e-mail if I want to send them from my iOS ... (1 Comment)

I know how to select a slide resolution in the theme chooser, but how do I determine the resolution for an existing Keynote presentation? —– Cameron ... (10 Comments)

I was in FaceTime for Mac and mistakenly put a star next to a number I did not want to favorite. Now when I click on it to try and remove the star, it calls that number. How do I remove the star from next to a contact number? —– Cameron ... (1 Comment)

We’re starting the annual quiet period for Apple news as Apple will not typically release new products or make announcements during the holiday shopping season.
Apple released minor updates this week to Keynote on the Mac and iBooks and Cards on iOS. iBooks new features includes new fonts and a nighttime reading theme.

An art classroom that serves 600 students in Defuniak Springs, Florida, some of whom have physical disabilities, would like to get an iPad 2. They will be able to use the Internet and art apps. Join MacMost in supporting this project.

“We have to move to a new cloud. This one is now filled with peoples’ crappy iTunes music collections.”

Ever wanted to design your own platform game levels? With the MakeQuest iPad app, you can. You drag building blocks and create rooms. Rooms link together to make a game. Design it any way you want. Add objects, treasure, weapons and monsters. Use signs to create a narrative. This is an interesting “experiment” from CleverMedia, MacMost’s parent company.

I just realized that in my finder window next to the search/spotlight bar, there is a paper icon. If i point on it it says “com.Apple.systemsound.plist”. What the hell is it doing there? Why is it there? How can i remove it? —– ian ... (3 Comments)

In Lion you can create a custom message that appears with the login prompt. Go to System Preferences, Security & Privacy, General and then turn on “Show a message when the screen is locked.” If you have a portable Mac, why not add a message there with your contact info? A good samaritan who finds a lost laptop may return it.

I have a new MacBook Pro with i movie, iPhoto, and final cut pro x and i’m kind of puzzled why iDVD doesn’t come in that buddle. If i purchase iLife 11 the software in that package i have except iDVD. I s there just a software package i can buy with just iDVD 11 and ... (1 Comment)

When updating to the most recent version of some software on my iMac (Evernote, in particular), the older version goes into my Trash as an app bundle and the latest version gets installed in my Applications folder. When trying to empty the trash, I sometimes get the message that ... (2 Comments)

I have final cut pro x and i was wondering how to put a black scene in my time line so i can fade up to my 2nd scene in my video project. I think they use to call these slugs. I’m inserting a title with a black background and then i delete the title. but there must be a ... (1 Comment)

You can use QuickTime Player in Lion to capture a single frame of video and save it to an image file. By using the Edit, Copy command you can grab the current frame, and then paste it into Photoshop or Preview. You can also use this technique to quickly grab a still image when using iMovie.

Yesterday I bought an Airport Extreme. I attached a 1TB hard drive to it that’s formatted in HFS+. When I do a Spotlight search, Spotlight only shows me the files that are on my local hard drive and not on the network drive. How can I get Spotlight to index the network ... (3 Comments)

Seriously thinking of getting a NAS, but before I do want to make sure of a few things. We have 3 Macs, let’s call them A, B, and C using same Apple ID for iTunes, except some CDs ripped are not on all Macs. Instead of following the instructions on your podcast of moving ... (5 Comments)

The touchscreen response of my iPhone 3GS has slowed since updating it with the iOS 5.0.1. Even switching from one App to another takes longer. Have other owners of the 3GS experienced this after updating with the iOS 5.0.1? —– Brian ... (4 Comments)

So I have an iMac i7(2,93ghz, 27inch, 8gb ram, 1TB harddrive) and I love it. However I’m a performance guy, I want to use every percent of pure power of my processor, memory, … I’m a graphic designer so I use it for video/ photo editing, Indesign, Photoshop, ... (4 Comments)

If you have an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule you can create a separate guest network. This appears as a different wi-fi network than your main one. Users of the guest network cannot see the computers or other devices on the main network. Setting one up in advance is a good idea so you can grant visitors access to your Internet connection without worry.

Lets say I want to be reminded by my iPhone 4S to pick up milk when I am nearing a grocery store or to be reminded to get one dollar bills when I’m near a strip club. How do I set this up? Gary, MacMost has been my favorite website since I got my iPad 2. Your podcasts are ... (3 Comments)