Yearly Archives: 2011

For some reason it is not possible to get iCall synchronized with MobileMe and vise verca. Working with version Mac OS X 10.5.8 Help or suggestions is more than welcome. —– Jan De Decker ... (1 Comment)

I’m on the last day of an iTunes movie rental and quickly discovered it doesn’t have closed captions. The sound through the built in speaker just isn’t enough for me to make any sense of what is being said, though the audio is as it should be in terms of volume ... (8 Comments)

Hi gary, do you have any podcasts on how and when to use Color Sync utility? Or where I can read up on it? Apparently I can get it to replicate colors more accurately on my printer? —– Dhruv ... (1 Comment)

When I first purchased my Mac pro I set up my WIFI and found for the first 4-5 months every was fine. Then for no reason, I keep randomly losing the connection. I run Assist me within network, network diagnostics and found the ISP, internet & server indicator go from green to ... (3 Comments)

Learn how to request a refund from the iTunes Store. If you have purchased an app that isn't working or have accidentally bought an app, song or video you can ask Apple for your money back through a series of steps.

After watching Gary’s current video on syncing files with iDisk I would like to know if you can just sync specific files or do you have to sync all of your user files? —– Jim ... (2 Comments)

Gary can we make copies of vcds with toast titanium ? If not any other way it can be done ? —– Cyrus ... (1 Comment)

Hi, Garry. For the last month I have a problem with my Superdrive when I trying to burn (videos). The error says: (0x8002006E) and then it stops burning. I have tried to find information on google but I see that this problem is verryyyyy…common, but no one really knows how ... (2 Comments)

I don’t know what changed but i use to be able to take my avchd card and plug it into my apple pro laptop and import it into imovie or FCE. In imovie the files dont lite up and in FCE it says i have the wrong kind of file. I’ve used this on 30 projects and now it ... (1 Comment)

I tried looking around your videos, but didn’t see this question answered. My apologies if I missed it (and just direct me towards it). I have an iPhone 3GS loaded with apps, both free and paid. I just purchased an iPod Touch and I’ve like to add my iPhone apps to ... (2 Comments)

I am trying to use a video from a Flip video camera in IWEB. It works fine until the website is published. Once published the video isn’t there. In it’s place, is a Quicktime logo with a question mark. Any thoughts on how to get this to work. I’ve used ... (2 Comments)

Gary, I tried your tip to export a still frame from a movie using iPhoto, but whenever I double click a movie file in iPhoto, it opens it in Quicktime. How do I get it to play in iPhoto? I tried pausing the movie in Quicktime, then selecting the “Export” option from ... (7 Comments)

Apple unveiled its recurring billing option for iOS apps this week. Previously developers could charge you for an app at the time of purchase, or you could initiate a one-time in-app purchase of additional content or access. With subscriptions, you can now opt to be charged on a regular basis for ongoing content updates such as newspaper or magazine content. Payment would happen through the iTunes system and your iTunes account.
Apple also created new rules for charging for in-app content. App makers can have their own system for collecting subscription fees, as long as the Apple system is also offered as an option. But publishers are unhappy with the rules as Apple takes a larger 30 percent cut of the price. Publishers will also have a harder time reselling customer information from app store purchases, a practice that is a big revenue stream for print magazines.
Apple released its annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Report which details the results of an internal audit of working conditions and environmental issues involving Apple subcontractors.
Problems in the past year include high worker recruitment fees, underage workers, and several suicides in the Chinese factories used to manufacture most of Apple’s hardware. The report details violations and steps Apple has taken to better the situation.

We’re really starting to get console-quality games now on the iPhone. With Dead Space, you’ve got excellent graphics, 3D, gameplay and it is just as creepy as the console version. Plus the story is something separate from the console ones, so you aren’t replaying the same thing. There is also a separate Dead Space for iPad version.

While QuickTime X can’t export a video frame as an image, iPhoto can. Simply pause the video in iPhoto at the frame you want to export. Then choose File, Export. Switch from QuickTime to File Export and choose JPEG as the kind. Save the file. You’ll get file that looks like a video file, but simply rename it with the file extension .jpg and you’ll see that it is actually a jpeg file.
UPDATE: Seems this is not working anymore in the newer version (9.1.5) of iPhoto. You get the first frame of the video only.

“Thanks to Ping, now all my friends know how boring and unhip my music collection is.”

Gary does the iPhone 3GS get slower in terms of performance and response time to launch apps, the more one loads onto it? Its 16 gb and I have 9 gb available space on it. I find going to the go W screen is a little more sluggish than before and launching the phone or and ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary I was wondering if you knew a way to stop websites like hotmail, YouTube, facebook, etc from loading as the mobile versions and load as the desktop versions when using my iPhone? —– Richard slack ... (1 Comment)

I have not been able to access my yahoo mail account since last evening. The page won’t load. This is not my default mail account on iPad I access it by going to yahoo mail sign in and enter my info. I was on account last evening and got off page and tried to return. Have ... (5 Comments)

Just say your podcast on iDisk. What do you consider the pros and cons of iDisk vs. Dropbox? —– Glenn Downing ... (3 Comments)