Yearly Archives: 2011

Many U.S. libraries will let you borrow electronic versions of books using your Mac, iPhone or iPad. But using an app on the iPad you can check out e-books and audio books.

As I have the hell a lot of music I just bought a Buffalo LinkStationDuo 2TB mirrored and I intend to store my iTunes media there. I’ve been checking for days now on the internet and I found especially your Video about moving the iTunes library to an external harddrive very ... (8 Comments)

Hi, I recently bought a Canon VIXIA HFR21 camcorder and want to transfer some of the video files from it to my mac. The camera came with a cd that has a program called “Transfer Utility” that lets you transfer the camcorder files to the computer, but it’s only ... (19 Comments)

How do you type the keyboard shortcut symbols when entering text on pages? i want to type the symbols, shift, control, option,command, tab, etc. —– gary stone ... (5 Comments)

While you can't add text or shapes to a photo in iPhoto, you can do it using either Pages or Preview. Pages allows you to add a variety of shapes and even other photos. Preview allows text and simple shapes.

Certainly should set up a WPA2 password for network. Worth it to also hide network? Or use MAC address exclusion? If I do use it, how do I find out MAC address of iPhone? What’s the downside or danger of using MAC exclusion or hiding network. —– Royce ... (1 Comment)

I have double emails in my inbox on my MacBook Pro. When I delete one it deletes both. Can I somehow fix this doubling from happening? —– Mary ... (3 Comments)

Gary, I have an Iphone 4 now and tried to use the camera but the shutter wont open. Rear or front both ! Facetime wont work as a result of that too. Yes I restored it too… In India there is no Iphone 4 support and it has to be taken to Singapore which is the nearest apple ... (3 Comments)

I completed a Keynote presentation. I have video in the Keynote. I exported Keynote to Quicktime (fixed timing) and the entire Keynote was successfully installed in imovie. The video portion doesn’t have sound it appears to be a photo. Is this common? Do you recommend I put ... (1 Comment)

Is anyone getting this message when renting movies from the Apple TV? I seem to get this error when I rent from and ONLY from the Apple TV. However, if I rent form my Mac, I can play the rental from my Mac to Apple TV via iTunes on Mac. Apple charged me twice when I rented a ... (1 Comment)

my dock on my mac os x 10.4.1 is not longer working after i just updated. when i click on about mac nothing happens, i can not open pro tool and other software —– Ms Pam ... (5 Comments)

I want to have video running on one side with titles on black background. I understand how to use side-by-side with video but it doesn’t seem to allow that with video + titles. The only way i can see to do it is to either create the title in iMovie, export it as a .mov and ... (2 Comments)

I tried to upload a presentation made with keynote that has a mp4 video included and opened it in iwork.com. As I saw, iwork.com should support videos and sounds but it doesn’t work for me. I know it is a beta and maybe therefore does not officially support it yet, but I am ... (3 Comments)

I have 4 email that appear as unread in my msn email account that appear as no subject,no sender, this message has no content. The date is 12/31/69. They have blue dot that unread emails have until clicked opened. Problem is I click on them and nothing happens, I can’t ... (1 Comment)

This may have been asked and answered and, if so, I apologize for the redundancy. Is there a way to set a Safari or Adobe Reader preference so that web-embedded PDFs always open in Adobe Reader instead of Safari? Thank you. Great site! —– David ... (1 Comment)

Here is my goal, please let me know if this is possible. In MobileMe(iDisk)-set up an HTML website with a custom gallery page that would auto update/add pictures to the site-every time I added a new picture file in my pictures folder. —– aldo ... (1 Comment)

Learn about a few simple April Fools jokes you can play on your friends with Macs.

Hi gary I am interested in buying the new 15 inch macbook pro, I use photoshop alot, should I upgrade to 8g of ram? will it make photoshop run faster? thanks viki —– viki ... (3 Comments)

On my MacBook Pro, it’s happened to me twice now where I’ll be connected to a wi-fi network, and if I go for a period without using my browser (like if I’m using a word processor or if the computer goes to sleep), AirPort automatically disconnects from the ... (3 Comments)

Using fast user switching, can 2 users on the same Mac be connected to different networks simultaneously, or does changing one change the other? Case: My Mac is downloading on one user. I want to switch to another user and change networks. Is this going to interrupt my ... (1 Comment)