Yearly Archives: 2011

Gary when iTunes Match is active, will we need the Internet to play the Matched songs ? That means we pay $24.99 Annually plus the Internet Bandwidth cost ? ALso the Net Speed would have to be fast enough to avoid buffering? —– cyrus Dubash ... (4 Comments)

When starting a new email and when I begin typing the recipients email address in I want to delete one of the addresses that comes up in the list of choices. —– Marcia ... (4 Comments)

I am a photographer looking for the fastest way to transfer photos from my compact flash card to my MBP ( Thunderbolt version). I am ready to purchase a firewire 800 card reader but have heard that a PCI card adapter ( for the slot on my MBP) is faster. which is the fastest? Any ... (1 Comment)

“I want to get iOS 5 for my iPhone 3Gs but I’ll upgrade to an iPhone 5 if it has 4G.”
“5, 3, 5, 4 what? Why can’t Apple use cute kitty names instead of numbers for the iPhone too?”

If you’ve got a bunch of tabs open in Safari and you want to quickly switch between them, use Control+Tab. This allows you to cycle through the tabs. You can also use Command+Shift+Left Arrow or Right Arrow, but it doesn’t work if you have a text field selected. Control+Tab seems to always work.

I usually watch Gary on my iPod touch for his daily video topic. A few weeks ago as I turn my iPod to the horizontal position the video screen did not rotate, but stayed in the vertical position. Macmost.com is the only app that doesn’t rotate the video or photos. Is it my ... (3 Comments)

Specifically, Lion is going to be a real problem for me, because a lot of my favorite apps are PowerPC. I want to know If I can keep Snow Leopard and run it under Parallels, or Install Lion in such a way that it runs in Parallels. I really expected to see an article about this ... (13 Comments)

i know this sounds strange and i have talked w/ a tech from apple about this and she blamed the problem on my isp – so… question for the expert… i have a windows computer next to my mac and sometimes i am not getting all of the mail that my windows receives. ... (8 Comments)

Sometimes computer users stress too much about disk usage. They worry when they see varying amount of free and used space and their computers and when they notice those numbers change even though they haven't done anything. Find out what Mac OS X does that uses disk space on a regular basis.

is it time to get an anti virus? if so, would sophos anti virus for mac home edition be a wise choice? —– henry ... (1 Comment)

i just purchased a new Imac with quad core I5 2.7. my problem is when i was compressing my movies in apple tv2 mode with Handbrake it would take an average of 15minutes. about two weeks into owning the Imac it now all of the sudden takes 35-45min. any ideas of what ... (1 Comment)

I have a Mac OS X Snow leopard with 1 tb hd, intel based and have successfully created a couple of projects using IMovie which I love. The two movies were of the same events, using re-filmed footage from my Sony CRX 150. Had a problem with one part of an event in the final ... (4 Comments)

I frequently run Keynote presentations from my iPad using the Keynote Remote app over wifi. However, I will be delivering a presentation tomorrow night in a facility without wifi. Is there an alternate method of controlling a Keynote presentation remotely, such as tethering or ... (8 Comments)

Just got the ipad 2. I just synced with my itunes account. I had organized all of my downloaded apps on my iphone4 based on different folders. These are no longer showing on the ipad. How do I replicate this? —– Pat ... (2 Comments)

I have added my i.movie to my keynote. This is self playing so movie starts automatically. HOWEVER the slide will not hold long enough to play my movie which is 2 minutes long. I have tried adjusting the transition slide timing but it switched before the movie is over. Help I ... (2 Comments)

Whenever I create an audio clip I wish I could name in and pace it in an audio clip library so I could easily find the audio clip to reuse in the movie currently being produced. Currently all I see is a heading with the time duration and date of clip that the program creates. I ... (3 Comments)

In iMovie I don’t want to remove the original audio in a clip but want to use that same audio in another clip. Currently I Detach Audio from the original clip, copy the audio piece i need some where else,then to return the original audio to the original clip. Then I paste ... (1 Comment)

I try for weeks now to het my 3 imac’s and 1 mac mini get online true WOL The don’t startup I can get the online if the in sleep mode but if the user select shutdown i’am unable te wake them up ! —– Pete ... (3 Comments)

Hi Gary, do you have suggestions on which CMS to use? I would like a system that has the Apple philosophy: things should work the way i want them to work. So far i ran into issues that seem logic to programmers but leave me confused. WordPress says it only takes 5 simple steps, ... (1 Comment)

Gary, I jailbroke my phone and tried it for a week. Too many glitches in operation with sudden safe modes and half text in lock screen and general sluggishness. I’ve restored it now but the one solid advantage of jailbreaking is undoubtedly Iblacklist – blocking calls ... (1 Comment)