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LastPass versus 1Password, which is better? Sounds like they go about it in different ways. 1Password just started to support Windows whileLastPass has been doing so for awhile. Perhaps LastPass started on Windows first?? LastPass is $12 per year whereas 1Password can be ... (8 Comments)

Hi Gary, My 13 inch macbook’s battery life is aweful, it does not seem to hol power for even an hour of normal use. The full charge capacity is 3800 and cycle count in 305. Can you advice me what is the best way to preserve battery life and is it good to keep it plugged in ... (2 Comments)

Hi Gary, i have a unusual problem. We (Me and my wife ) have 2 iphones, but 1 itunes account, we have the same songs in the itunes but different applications, different contacts and different email and notes i am a power iphone user and my wife uses it for facebook, email and ... (2 Comments)

Dear Gary I’ve had some photos taken on a trip. When I got home and turned on my iMac, I connected my iPhone which immediately launched image capture. Then I told image capture to export the photos to iPhoto and delete the photos on my iPhone. iPhoto launched but nothing ... (2 Comments)

Is there a way to organize each of my four Spaces differently? I’d like to arrange my Desktop folders manually, say, grouped by topical clusters in Space 1, by personal priority-level clusters in Space 2, etc. I don’t find help in this regard in the System ... (1 Comment)

Help when i drag a mp3 into itunes it wont go in — George Hill ... (1 Comment)

I have several TV seasons for different TV shows that I have bought from the iTunes Store and downloaded to iTunes. When I try to watch them in Front Row it says “No Content Found” but when I try to watch them in iTunes it works fine. I have the cover art and ... (2 Comments)

On Mail, while typing out an address of a contact, the autofill sometimes fills up a contact I don’t have anything to do with now and would like to remove from autofill and indeed, the contact list. Any suggestions? — Parma ... (1 Comment)

Gary how important is it to have Perian installed on my mac for imovie and quicktime. — Richard ... (1 Comment)

I have a Motorola Q 9h Global mobile phone that runs windows. Is there a (free) way to sync to my Macbook Pro so I can download my photos taken with my phone ? I have found sites that charge money but just curious if there is a free service. — Billy ... (2 Comments)

Hello Gary, I just your podcast on Sleep vs Shut Down. Just wanted to clarify the numbers…If I leave my Macbook asleep for about 8-10 hours at night, in battery mode, morning time the battery is down from 100% to about 97%. So would you say that switching it off and on ... (1 Comment)

Hey Gary, Could you suggest a calendar app that will sit on my desktop, across all Spaces? I downloaded Pando Calendar but when I switch spaces to a new desktop, it disappears. I’ve disbaled my Ical widget to speed the machine up, so a low memory, simple, non fancy app ... (1 Comment)

There is a computer virus called ‘Wireshark Antivirus’ circulating on the internet for pcs. I was wondering if you have heard any reports of a mac getting the virus? The virus is simply a fake antivirus program that is trying to convince people to give out their ... (3 Comments)

You lazily import photos from your camera into iPhoto without really scrutinizing the photos too closely. iPhoto then arranges them by “Faces” or “Places”. Sometime later you start looking at the photos in “Faces” & decide that this photo ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, I’ve read a few posts on sharing the iPhoto Library between users on the same machine, including Apple’s support page. If I only need my wife to use the photos to download to her iPhone, is it good enough to simply move the iPhoto Library from my Pictures ... (1 Comment)

Recently, the Word Spell game seems to have had the touch response go south. Previously, you could zip through the letters. Now, on two iPhones I’ve been using, you have to press-and-hold in order to get the game to respond to the tap. This slows down game play ... (6 Comments)

Hi Gary, I’m going to buy the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid 320GB Drive (link: http://tinyurl.com/2fxvttg ). But I have a question: When I install the new drive in my MacBook Pro (13″ – first model), how do I install OS X on there (fresh install)? After I turn on ... (2 Comments)

is there such a setting to allow you to right click on an address and have the drop down give you the option to add to a certain “group”? i know it ask to add to contacts – but then you have to go back in and drag/drop to group – where’s the time ... (1 Comment)

Hi all – I imported my Outlook Contacts file to Address Book. During the conversion, all 5,000+ contacts were given the seemingly arbitrary birthday of November 30. Is there some way to delete all the birthdays without having to edit each contact individually? I do not ... (1 Comment)

Had problems will Mail last week which I couldn’t fix so decided to reload OSX saving previous system to a folder on HD. The problem is that since then Iphoto will not launch – tried lots of ways. Even tried loading an older version of iphoto from a disk but this ... (2 Comments)