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I currently have 233 applications installed on my MBP (I know, I’m an apphog). I am really at the point where having that number in one directory is unmanagable, but it seems like there are some disadvantages to using sub-folders for storing applications. What is your ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, I’ve set up my Mail with Gmail, but now have an additional company webpage which has it’s own mail which I need to sync as well to Mail. But I’m confused about how to, since it’s not one of the standard mail providers. I have to log in to my ... (2 Comments)

Hi, I want to basically jam with myself using PIP in imovie. Ive somewhat figured out how PIP works but what i cant figure out is how to listen to my recorded part 1 whilst filming part 2. Im using the inbuilt camera on the macbook. A friend told me that i have to export the ... (1 Comment)

In iMovie HD, is it possible to create a L and R audio to make the DVD play in stereo? I guess I would need to extract the audio and then create two duplicate audio tracks by coping the extracted one and pasting the new one into a new track. But is there a way to assign one ... (18 Comments)

Hello, i’ve got a problem since i got a macbook pro, and all other video sites streams but youtube streams just a one/quarter of the video, and it’s just only on safari, i tested on firefox,chrome and youtube streamed perfectly , and don’t forget, i disabled the ... (6 Comments)

After jailbreaking my iPad, I can no longer turn it off in spite of concurrently holding down the two buttons. I am afraid that if i restore it, i will not be able to jailbreak it again. Any suggestions? Gene — Gene ... (2 Comments)

hi I have a empty folder. But the size of the folder is 120 mb. How can I find what is in it.? Kindly help — Haresh ... (1 Comment)

After 14 months of heavy use on my MacBook Pro, I am in the market for a new battery. Any suggestion on where to buy wil be greatly appreciated. — Bill Lopes ... (1 Comment)

I recently decided to upgrade from my first mac which was a early 2008 white macbook 2.4Ghz, 2gb DDR2 ram, 250gb hard drive to a new 2010 13″ Macbook Pro 2.4ghz, 4gb DDR3 ram, 500gb hard drive and the new 320m integrated graphics with 256mb of vram. My question is if I ... (1 Comment)

I recall you did a podcast on this a while back, but now can’t find it . . . 64 bit kernal versus 64 bit processing, and whether it’s worth it to set Mac to 64 bit kernal. I didn’t do it besides I heard it might conflict with some software programs and drivers, ... (1 Comment)

I have attempted to create a smart playlist, say for all the podcasts about Disney, for example. I can’t seem to get it to work. I choose to creat a playlist based on “artist” but can’t figure it out. I subscribe to about 100 podcasts and want to avoid ... (4 Comments)

Just bought G-Tech’s portable G RAID mini for video editing on Final Cut Pro. I can set it up as RAID 1 with the 2 500GB 7200rpm HDDs or stripe them in RAID 1 for 1 TB. I will using FireWire 800. Would striping/RAID 1 them be of any speed benefit when I am using FireWire ... (6 Comments)

Is there a good way to convert music saved as .wmv to Acc so it can work with itunes. I tried to download flip4mac from the Apple downloads website but the program did not work for me. — matt ... (1 Comment)

Is there a way to get the full file name to show on Desktop files? Thanks. — john forstall ... (6 Comments)

I have lots of movies on blu ray, I know you can buy external blu ray drives that plug into USB, will that work with mac? if so can you get software that will play it. — James Milne ... (1 Comment)

I use TimeMachine on a TimeCapsule for my backups. I also have all my ITunes Media on a different external drive as it is too large to keep on my MacBook Harddrive. The external drive with my Media is attached to the TimeCapsule so I can access it wirelessly. This works great and ... (2 Comments)

I have in iphoto 09, about 30 gig’s of photos and I think its bogging things down when I try to open it. It tends to slow on edit also and wonder if it is related to how many photos. (photos avg 2-3 mb, I have a 2.16ghz core 2 duo with 2 gb of ram and a 250 gb hard drive ... (2 Comments)

I am using a G4 quicksilver running leopard. It has two hard drives. I have some older programs that I would like to be able to run that require classic and ran well in 8.6 on my old iMac that died. Can I use the install disc from the iMac and install 8.6 on the second drive ... (1 Comment)

I am wanting to copy my CD collection to my external hard drive. I was going to start by ripping it into iTunes. Once I have moved the files to my external drive, is it ok to delete the songs out of iTunes to save hard drive space? — Joshua Tabor ... (1 Comment)

I have imovie 09 and when i try to input my new video project ( which is a big project) it won’t let me select my external bigger drive. When i click on save to it won’t give me a choice it always defaults to the Mac pro internal harddrive. I checked the settings and ... (3 Comments)