Yearly Archives: 2011

With a file in the Finder selected, you can press the spacebar to use Quick Look to view it in a window. But if you hold down the Option key and press the spacebar, you get a full screen Quick Look. Do that with a few images selected and you get a full screen slideshow.

“I assure you, sir, that this is the new Thunderbolt port. It is not a sign that your Mac survived an attack by Voldemort.”

Gary do you have a way to Save /download the Videos available on the Apple.com Website ? Like Apple Video Tutorials or Keynote presentations, or even Ipad and Iphone Advertisement Videos and Facetime Videos ? They are extremely Clear (even better than 1080P HD I have always tried ... (14 Comments)

I am thinking of using a Buffalo Technology Linkstation Quad as my Time Machine drive. Safety-wise of my data, what’s better RAID 10 or RAID 5? Also what do you think of Buffalo equipment? If the software or hardware controllers in the Buffalo enclosure were to go bad would ... (9 Comments)

I use a screen capture program you recommended, Snapz Pro. I have it send the captures to a certain folder which always opens in icon view. When I look at that folder in Finder, I notice that the new captures have an icon that just displays JPEG and a small logo of the Preview ... (1 Comment)

Does anyone out there have any experience with the Mac-Ready Western Digital My Passport external hard drive with the Virtual CD software? I’m having a load of questions and the owner’s manual answers none of them. Not one. And their support site won’t ... (7 Comments)

Apple announced the iPad 2 today with a faster processor, thinner design and two video cameras. On shelves on March 11, there will also be a new version of iOS that day and major new apps for the iPad 2: Photo Booth, FaceTime, iMovie and GarageBand.

I’ve had a sports blueray disk sent to me to edit. Can i put the blueray disk in my macbook pro and convert it in mpeg stream clip for editing? I don’t have a blueray player. —– Peter ... (3 Comments)

I have recently noticed that the screen brightness is high and when I try to adjust it nothing happens except that when I reduce it to the minimum it goes black. In other words it is either very bright or it goes black. I have checked the settings and they are much the same as ... (1 Comment)

Hi I am a Mac user buying an Imac ‘for the kids’ at Christmas, because of work I have always been a windows user- there I have said it ;). Back to the point… I have a Synology NAS drive which i have all my photos and music on,I have my ,mac and a couple of ... (3 Comments)

I use iMovie everyday and when I open it up it opens slightly off screen. I always have to click the green button in the upper left corner to maximize the screen. I open several other programs each day and none of them need this done on a daily basis. Any ideas how to have iMovie ... (1 Comment)

Hi gary I had downloaded the beta version of Facetime from Mac from the Apple Website on the day they launched. I still use it and at that time it was Free. Now the Mac Appstore charges 0.99 $ for it. Is there anything New in the Chargeable Facetime App for MAC? If not should i ... (1 Comment)

If the rumours are true, then will peripherals such as scanners and printers bought recently (in the last 18 months to 2 years) which run PPC code become obsolete? —– James McEwan ... (2 Comments)

Learn how to select text by character, word, line or paragraph. You can use the Option or Command keys as modifiers in conjunction with the arrow keys. You can also use the mouse to select by character, word, or paragraph with the right number of clicks.

There’s a website where I had initially had my login and password autofilled so I’d have to simply click login and not type out everything. Something happened in between and I had to reset my password and now it always loads the page blank in the entry spaces. ... (1 Comment)

On this new 17 inch Imac, No DVD plays. It shows the DVD on the desktop and when I force it to play with DVD player, it shows Not Supported type. I tried many DVDs but the it’s the same result ! Any tips ? —– Cyrus Dubash ... (1 Comment)

Gary this was very strange. I created a new administrator user profile account on an IMAC 27 inch. On logging into it I found a Question Mark on the Dock where Safari was originally placed in the other User Profiel. So evern though Safari installed, it does not show up in the new ... (1 Comment)

I now own both an iPhone and iPod Touch and I’ve recently encountered a problem with them. As I import pictures from each device they simply use file names based upon the “img_xxxx” format. This presents a problem when bringing in newer pictures taken on the ... (2 Comments)

I searched and searched and got lots of nothing! Is there any possibility, without having to write my own software, to fill, e.g. 4289 empty cells “in one go and with any value” in a “numbers-table” (numbers being the iWork want-to-be equivalent to ... (11 Comments)

I used to rip music dvds so I can listen to and watch them on my iPhone or iPod. How do I put chapter markers in the video so I can skip through songs? Handbrake can do it but it doesn”t do good sound quality. The program I use to rip is great with sound, but can not handle ... (1 Comment)