Yearly Archives: 2011

Hi Gary this was a strange problem. I troubleshooted with apple Support over the phone for over 2 weeks for a particular bug on the ipad. Here goes – The bug lies in the WEEK VIEW of the Calendar. If the Settings General – International – is set to India, the ... (3 Comments)

Ever wish the Finder had tabs in each window? The TotlaFinder utility adds this and it works very well. There is also a useful mode where you can dock two Finder windows next to each other for side-by-side comparisons of folders. While other utilities do this in their own application windows, TotalFinder may be unique in brining this directly to the Finder itself.

Battle for Wesnoth seemed like another turn-based RPG game for the iPad. But as a port of a large, mature PC game there is much more depth than a typical iPad game. I wasted many hours this week moving through the initial story. But there are actually 15 campaigns, so I’ve got plenty more to go.

If you use iTunes to play music on your Mac, you may want to see some basic controls on your screen without having iTunes’ huge window in the way. Try the Mini Player by choosing View, Switch to Mini Player. The keyboard shortcut is Shift+Command+M.

With the iPad 2 launch set for tomorrow at 5 p.m., Apple put several supporting pieces into place this week. iTunes was updated to 10.2.1 and the iOS 4.3 update for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch was released on Wednesday.
The iOS 4.3 update added AirPlay streaming support for third-party apps and speeds up the Safari browser. The iPhone 4 also gets the personal hotspot feature for AT&T users.
In addition, Apple released updates to Safari for Mac and Apple TV 2 this week. Apple TV 2 shows that it is certainly capable of gaining additional “apps” when the update added MLB.TV and NBA League Pass. Though these offerings are of limited use due to blackouts of local games.

Me and my wife both have iPhone 3gs and use the same computer to sync with iTunes, we each an account with different passwords. When she synced her phone yesterday all her contacts were lost and replaced with mine. Is there anyway to get her contacts back? —– william ... (2 Comments)

“I’m not sure now is the best time to buy an iPad. I heard a rumor that a new one is coming soon.”

I am using iMovie 11 and I am working on making a movie from video footage that resides on my attached USB drive. I am trying to add photos to the movie, via the storyboard/shots part of the project, but the icons for the photo, music, text, etc., are all grayed out. They are ... (13 Comments)

I have 2 questions: 1- How do I setup my current folder as variable in Automator? 2- Is there anyway to avoid unzip files into new folders? Let me explain, Let’s say that I have 20 sequencial files whenever I unzip them, they create a new folder to each one, I just want ... (2 Comments)

Hi Gary. How is the personal  hotspot feature different from the internet tethering feature.?  I always used the latter but now on my iPhone 3gs after  upgrading to iPhone OS 4.3, the Internet thetgering has gone and personal hotfoot shows up. I tried it and it is mostly the ... (5 Comments)

Can I sync more than one iPhone with my iTunes library? I don’t want the apps to get mixed up. Just want to sync it with one library so that I can share the same photos on both iPhones. I’ve made another user account for the second iPhone so that the contacts and ... (3 Comments)

When I move an e-mail from my Inbox a few days after I receive it to the Public Folders, the date on the e-mail changes to the date it was moved and the original date it was sent changes. —– B.Shroff ... (3 Comments)

I’ve loaded FaceTime on two different MacBook Pros and they initially have the same email addresses for the “number” to call. I want to change one of the addresses to my wife’s email but the FaceTime program won’t allow me to erase the initial email ... (1 Comment)

Google's Chrome browser is an interesting alternative to the pre-installed Safari browser. The address field and tabs behave differently and you can extend the browser using Google's web store. Take a look at Chrome and then check it out for yourself.

When I click on the icon, nothing happens at all. Any suggestions? —– Dennis ... (2 Comments)

Some of the movie trailers have animated backgrounds that are not part of iMovie. Where can I obtain those backgrounds? For example, there is a bubble background in the friendship movie trailer template. I would also like the picture of the sky/clouds at the opening of the ... (3 Comments)

hi I have my imac for all my family so I hae 4 accounts all password protected, now I want to upgrade from leopard to snow leopard. question: will I lose the accounts or will it simply upgrade and keep my accounts? —– miguel ... (2 Comments)

Gary I use Image capture to scan my images. Somehow on clicking View in Image Capture, the SHow Toolbars and Customize Toolbars are not highlighted and so I can’t use them. I need to Straighten an image in image Capture before scanning it. Is there a way to See the toolbar ... (3 Comments)

When my MacBook Pro (latest OS X) is very warm from continued activity during “sleep,” I run Activity Monitor. “Kernel task” (sometimes) shows activity in the neighborhood of 40-50% of the CPU’s efforts. What is a kernel task, and what might be a ... (1 Comment)

Your browser temporarily stores images and data in a cache on your hard drive to speed up reloading web pages. But sometimes you may wish to clear your cache to load fresh content. Learn about the cache and how to clear it on the Mac in Safari, Firefox, Chrome and on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.