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I am interested in buying either a 15 inch or 17 inch MacBook Pro. Thing is though, I can’t decide which one I should purchase. Both versions have the specs that I want (8 gigs of ram, I7 quad core and 512g SSD) but is there some additional benefit to having a 17 inch vs ... (6 Comments)

I’m uploading video from DVD’S to my Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.8, iMovie 11 and am able to get it there fine. Trouble is, I had many “starts and stops” and I need to get the “rejected” footage out of my project after I’ve selected the footage ... (3 Comments)

I’m a new Mac user with Lion. I have several drives formatted as NTFS and would like to understand the best way to manage files on those drives (i.e. read, write, update). —– Clifford Caraway ... (5 Comments)

When I use Word, Excel or Powerpoint and wish to open a file all of the files and folders are listed alphabetiCally. Can the listing be changed to kind and alphabetiCally? —– Cameron ... (1 Comment)

My thinking is that the items on each device that are difference will be erased. Do I sync them both together to the pc or separately. —– Robert ... (4 Comments)

Im trying to place a thumb nail picture into a cell of a column. If the column can be in larger too two cell in one then I would be able to place a picture of a check inside the cells of each column. —– Robert ... (1 Comment)

I am using a Mac Desktop, OS X, v 10.6.8 w/ 3.2 Intel Core 13 w/4 GB mem. 1333 MHz DDR3, using iMovie 11. I have many years of 8mm home movies which I have converted to DVD + R and want to process them in iMovie. I am able to play them on the Mac but there seems to be no ... (3 Comments)

On the surface it appears that “Free” iBook Author delivers a near knockout punch to Adobe’s InDesign. The latter is advertised as being a Desktop Publisher. If someone is designing textbooks, lesson plans etc. that all seems to be capable within iBooks Author. ... (3 Comments)

I have iMovie’11 and i have problem when i try to import films from my camera. When i import i put original format and the quality is lower than if i copy the file from the camera directly and i see in differents multimedia players. Do you know what’s the problem? ... (13 Comments)

I read your document on password security and it is excellent. My family and I have all locked down all of our accounts with strong passwords. I’m wondering what your thoughts are on using a real name as part of an e-mail address. For example, BillSmith@me.com. I have heard ... (3 Comments)

When doing address completion Apple Mail uses both Address Book and all previous mail. I’d like Apple Mail to only use Address Book. Is that possible? Thanks. —– Glenn Downing ... (2 Comments)

Gary, is there a “Force Quit” on the iPad? My wife just installed iOS 5 on her iPad now her Mail program is stuck. She just wrote a reply to a friend and it is stuck. She can’t send it, because nothing on the screen works. The page is in white and the rest of the screen is ... (14 Comments)

Is there a way of password protecting a folder, that isn’t capable of being deleted? —– Darren ... (1 Comment)

I have a secure wifi broadband connection on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.8. Large amounts of data are being used while I am asleep. How can I establish which programme is using the data or alternatively which device is using the data? —– Johan van der Spuy ... (9 Comments)

When I use spotlight I have a difficult time finding specific results…even when I use the “show all in finder” option after the initial spotlight search. I will then narrow results by “type”(document) and then by “file contains”(word or ... (4 Comments)

I tried recording my screen in Quicktime, when i played it back, the quality was great. I put the Quick Time movie into iMovie and applied some effects, then exported it to YouTube, unfortunately the quality was really bad. How do I get a good quality picture, 240p and up on ... (1 Comment)

Gary, I have a question: On my menu bar there is an AirPort ikon. When I click on it, it shows a list of connections I have made some time ago. These connections are very long ago and are quite a distends from here, some 500 miles away. Is there a way I can delete them? I know, ... (3 Comments)

In a brief moment of stupidity I installed MacKeeper yesterday and while using it typed in my password. Luckily I found out quite soon that I needed to dump Mackeeper and after quite some time successfully uninstalled it. Now I’m thinking it might be smart to change my ... (1 Comment)

I have a iPhone3GS with iOS 5.0.1 update. Suddenly the display of the Safari browser is locked on landscape only & does not revert to portrait when holding the iPhone upright. Has anyone experienced this recently? Is there a solution? —– Brian ... (2 Comments)

How to find unique and duplicate records in Numbers? I use the current version of Numbers on my iMac (also on iPad and iPhone, but I can do this on the desktop). In Excel you can use conditional formatting to easily identify duplicate records and also unique records. Then easily ... (6 Comments)