Yearly Archives: 2011

Hey Gary a friend of mine has a picture he took with his iPhone and imported to iPhoto. He try using that sand picture as a desktop picture and every time it appears upside down. I suggested dragging photo from iPhoto and putting on desktop and try to manually drag and still no ... (3 Comments)

Final cut pro x is compatible with a MBA (13 inch, Memory 2 GB, Release date: october 2010)? —– javi ... (1 Comment)

how to locate recent downloads. New to mac and find it very confusing —– brian ... (3 Comments)

Once I configured Gmail as Ms Exchange on my iPhone… I could get to a new message, type a few characters of the Name of the recipient and the Email address showed up. The same does not happen in Lion Apple Mail because It is not set up with Ms Exchange. So do i need to ... (4 Comments)

Besides large new features in Lion, there are many small changes. Check out 10 interesting and useful new things in Lion.

Gary, I have read just about everything about Lion, but have not gotten the answer: Is Mac OS X Lion a complete operating system, or just another major update to Snow Leopard? I know one need Snow Leopard because of the App store, but will Lion install a complete NEW operating ... (2 Comments)

I want to setup my gmail in the Lion’s  apple mail.  On my iPhone I use the Microsoft exchange setting with server address as m.google.com and it looks book the key with email is being forced to my phone. I tried setting setting it up same way on my iMac. But it does not ... (12 Comments)

Installed Lion twice using Installer app (not clean install) in 2 HDDs with multi-partitions. No Recovery HD was created as expected from article I read, but both times all data in Documents gone including the Installer app (had Installer app in Documents). Good thing I backed ... (6 Comments)

This topic,and i am not alone, I have never found an answer to this question yet. Example – you have just filled in a form or bought something,then a drop down appears warning you,that the form will be duplicated or the object you bought will also be duplicated,and you ... (2 Comments)

I use iMovie’s latest version on my iMac7. A week ago, I decided to upload my movies through iMovie from my camera to an external drive. When the drive (non-apple) was connected and it showed on the desktop, iMovie would not allow me to select it. This has left me with the ... (1 Comment)

I was thinking of upgrading my iMac from Lion client to Server. Motivations: host my own website; setting up WebDAV for iOS document sharing; family calendar; email management. Are there any downsides or gotchas to upgrading my iMac to Lion Server? Do all the features from the ... (1 Comment)

whenever i click on “energy saver” for some reason my system preferences closes automatically and comes up an error… what could be the problem? —– patrick ... (4 Comments)

In Snow Leopard, the Finder sidebar had an “All Images” catch-all, where you could search for an image where you weren’t certain whether it belonged in mail, photos etc. I can’t seem to find this facility now. —– George Wilson ... (2 Comments)

I have lots of DVDs, including Blu-ray. I heard of some video streaming apps, like Air Video, Air Playit, etc. with which I am capable of streaming videos to iPhone iPad iPod touch from PC/Mac. That’s interesting. But I have a question: can I stream some DVD movies to my iPhone ... (1 Comment)

Ever since I downloaded Lion I am getting lots of question marks instead of accented letters and symbols in Firefox and Mail. What do I need to change? —– Andrea ... (3 Comments)

I am learning how to work with Preview. I keep running obstacles . So I want to know what I may be doing wrong. A couple concerns are? FONT SIZING? When I am able to get the text box up the font when it does appear– I have sized in EXTREMELY LARGE ( example 295 and up in ... (2 Comments)

Can i install Microsoft Office 2008 on Lion? I want to make a clean install of Lion. Is it possible? Would it be better to make a clean install of Snow Leopard and install MS Office 08 and then install Lion? —– Jon ... (2 Comments)

Lion Mail's new interface is different from previous versions of Mail. Learn how to use the three-column view. See how you can use the Favorites bar to make the mailbox column unnecessary. Learn about the Archive function and how to use keyboard shortcuts to move messages into mailboxes.

Hey Gary could you remind me what it is that Mac OS X’s “Dropbox” folder is useful for? —– Michael ... (1 Comment)

Does the iMovie project files contain the actual clips in the project itself or does it refer only to the locations of the clips I have chosen for the project and not the actual clips My Macbook Pro HD is running out of space. If I move the iMovie events and projects to an ... (3 Comments)