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Hi Gary, I’m a bit confused about the notes app accounts on my iPhone. Before ios4 there was only one. Now there is two, From My Mac and MobileMe. I have typed in something and sometimes it goes to my Mail on my Mac and not sure which is the default. Also why can’t I ... (5 Comments)

Hello, Just recently purchased the Mini Display Port to VGA adapter and wanted tips in setting it up and using it with a Sony LCD with a VGA port. I have a Macbook Aluminum. Love the new iPad book. Picked it up on my Kindle. Thanks — Erick ... (6 Comments)

I tried to visit a website (that I’ve never visited before) and safari gave me a Warning. I clicked the “Go Back” button, so I suppose I don’t have anything to worry about, right? — T ... (1 Comment)

I just noticed that I have 5gb of my iPad being used up for apps. How do I figure out which apps are being the resource hogs? P — Todd Peperkorn ... (2 Comments)

Hello, I’ve used Windows most of my life, but was always open for other options. I’m considering to buy an iMac, and might have bought an iPad already if Apple would not have turned down Flash like they do. Gary, you live Flash as a matter of speaking: what are your ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, I’ve subscribed to and imported a calendar for a football side’s fixtures for the season. I get the alarm beeps on the day, but 15 mins before. I want to change the alarm timings to beep, say, 4 hours before. Is there a way to do it at one go for all the ... (1 Comment)

All your iMovie 09 tut videos on youtube feature your face in the bottom left corner (and that vide is tilted a bit). Did you MAKE those tuts with iMovie? I saw the Pic in Pic demo and it said the inset movie had to be in movie ratio and did not appear you could tilt it? — ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, I am still enjoy your podcasts and as a volunteer teacher in a non-English speaking country, I think it would be a great way to help my students if I could create short videos such as those you produce. I particularly like the personal touch of having your image included ... (1 Comment)

Hello, fairly new to Mac/Apple…. Is there software that enables me to work in Numbers/Pages on my iPad AND PC without converting to Adobe or other format? I usually create on iPad and transfer to PC for archive and/or use. I plan to change from PC to MAC but not for a while ... (1 Comment)

Gary, Is there a way to assign a ringtone to an entire group rather than having to manually select a ringtone for every contact in my address book? Third-party apps/scripts? Hence, people under Work would have one ringtone, Family another, Friends a different one, etc. I get that ... (2 Comments)

Dear Gary, I would be grateful if you could give me the step-by-step guide to set up a Service (available from all applications) that would give me the meaning of a highlighted word. I know this option is already there, but I would like to know how that has been done. Also could ... (4 Comments)

Hi Gary, I am a huge fan of mac most. I just purchased my first mac after almost 3 years of debate. I feel like a fish out of water. Some of the music that i have on my ipod classic i ripped from cd’s and other sources the others i purchased from itunes. What i need to know ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, Is there a way of editing the default periods of time for the alarms in iCal and its equivalent calendars in iphone and ipad?? The earliest you could set an alarm or reminder for an event is 2 days, which is a bit short. Thanks in advance, Amir — Amir ... (1 Comment)

Gary, need your help urgently, I’m on a deadline to submit a short film for a festival which I shot in HD 1080 but which they want in DV PAL format AND less than 100 mB. I’ve used mpeg streamcip but the file is compressing to 229 MB, whether I choose 100% quality or ... (2 Comments)

The search with exclusions video was helpful but what I would like to know is how to do the same in Mail. For example how to search on a subject but limited to a single email address. Gary — Gary ... (1 Comment)

I have a SSD for the OS & Apps. It’s small so I’d like to have Safari and Firefox downloads go to the HDD. I changed it the Preferences for both browsers, but when I download software I didn’t get the window where I could just click and drag the ... (1 Comment)

I have an SSD for the OS & Apps. When I installed Final Cut Studio, the installer put the Final Cut Pro documents folder in ~/Documents. What is the Final Cut Pro documents folder for? I use an external HDD. Can I simply move the Final Cut Pro documents folder to my ... (3 Comments)

I have an SSD for the OS & Apps. When I installed Office 2008, the installer put the Microsoft User Data folder in ~/Documents. What is the Microsoft User Data folder for? Can I simply move it to my HDD where I keep all my data (documents, pics, etc)? Or do I need to tell ... (1 Comment)

I use 1 gmail id configured as IMAP on my iPhone & POP on Mail. When I archive a mail from my iPhone’s inbox it still gets downloaded (POPed) on my Mac, why? How to prevent the same mail again being downloaded on my Mac? In Gmail settings I have set “When ... (2 Comments)

The title pretty much says it. What brands/models should I be looking at to get good clean power for my home studio, in a UPS which will gracefully shut my system down if power is lost for an extended time? — Sumit Das ... (3 Comments)