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Hi Gary. Love your site. Very informative. 1st place I turn to for Mac info. Have you received any info on the battery drain situation regarding iPod and OS4 upgrade? I’ve experienced it, killing my battery in a matter of hours, and found a slew of others have ... (3 Comments)

Hey guys, Thought it better to post afresh than stick to replies… battery problem solved…can you suggest any way to find out why i see the spinning wheel so regularly now when I’m clicking here and there? I’ve always maintained at least 100gb of hard disk ... (1 Comment)

Since updating to iTunes 9.2 the program pops out of the applications folder, onto my dock, and self launches. Has anyone else had this happen. I’m running on an iMac, intel processor. It can get darn annoying. — eel ... (1 Comment)

I bought a macbook 13″ unibody in November last year and its battery count now stands at 197 full counts. Is that normal or abnormally high? Because I’m not sure, but it seems like the battery seems to be finishing sooner…I could be wrong because the system ... (10 Comments)

I posted an iPad problem I was having with the graphics from the first Google mail message that I opened repeating on all the other mail messages that I subsequently opened. I can’t find it posted in the forum, but the problem has been resolved, and I am giving you credit ...

Hi Gary: Was wondering if you have considered making the iPhone App work a bit different than it presently is. Let me explain: I just started using it a short while ago and whenever I click on a ‘news’ article that is referenced to a website it takes me out of your ... (3 Comments)

Hi Gary was using the iTunes store for movies and decided to click the genius tab to see what they recommended now icant seem to get out of genius I tried restarting the iPad tried going through the whole list to see if there was a tab at the end nothing what do you ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary My downloads folder the used to sit next to the apps and documents foldrer is missing I don’t know what I did but how can I get it back? — Paulie3660 ... (2 Comments)

Long story but I now have two ITunes libraries. One on my Macbook HD and another on a secondary external drive. In preferences I have the external one set up so when connected the Mac sees it and loads stuff there. If I am not connected it sees the one in the Home folder and ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, In the latest MacBreak Weekly Episode they (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsey) discussed whether or not Apple will opensource Mac OS X in the future or not… Of course, they also talked about other things concerning OS X. My question: Do you like the idea of ... (2 Comments)

I’ve recently re-watched your video “Do Macs need Anti-Virus software?”, and I’ve been reading up on malware for the Mac. Basically, malware that exists for OS X can only be installed by the user – by entering the admin account name and password, ... (2 Comments)

I have taken pictures of a book and I want to crop them. It would be nice to set a custom box and not to have to resize every image. — Jan Hutchison ... (5 Comments)

My iPhone crashed during a recent OS upgrade. I have managed to restore all my apps but have lost all of the data associated with these apps. iTunes seems to keep only one backup and presumably “overwrites” previous ones. Is there any way of recovering older backups ... (8 Comments)

Hi Gary, is there any application that I can use to check what items are occupying most of my hard drive space? Thanks — Carlos M ... (1 Comment)

I just got an iphone 2 weeks ago, n I don’t like the ring tone of new text message in the iphone, is it possible I can add the ring alert or copy the sound text message alert from my old phone? If you can, how to do it? could you give me guide or instruction for it. thank ... (3 Comments)

I just received an e-mail ad for “Spring Cleaning.” I am wondering if this is a sound investment, or if OSX has the same abilities built in? Any advice would be great. — Joe ... (2 Comments)

There is talk that the new Office for Mac will arrive this year. Apparently Entourage will be replaced by a version of Outlook for Mac. If so will it easily and painlessly import all my old Hotmail emails into Mail?? Amir — Amir ... (2 Comments)

I want to avoid opening the iphoto app every time i hook up my iphone to the mac. I have done some research and apparently you can do this from image capture preferences. The problem is when I go to image capture app, it does not have preferences. It has service preferences which ... (2 Comments)

Hi Gary, I’m loving my iphone 4 which is fast and zippy. Before it I had an iphone 3G and didn’t upgrade to the 3GS. By the time I upgraded it had really slowed down and become sluggish and laggy. My question is this: what is the actual mechanism of an iphone slowing ... (1 Comment)

I want to create some room on my hard drive. One way I thought of doing this is to transfer itunes from my mac’s HD to an external drive. I have seen your helpful video on this already. My question is this: is it possible to have an itunes on the mac for iphone syncing and ... (1 Comment)