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In guarding against online fraud, we are cautioned to look for HTTPS and padlocks, indicators of secure sites. How do we know that the bad guys can’t arrange for those indicators to be displayed, thus defeating the whole intent? In other words, I need a brief explanation ... (1 Comment)

Hi all, I’ve seen a fall in my 2gb RAM’s performance recently and I notice it almost always has a swollen amount of inactive memory….is there any way to free up the inactive memory to convert it to free memory? — Lin Willia ... (1 Comment)

Hey Gary I went on a family vacation this Fourth of July and tried out the iMovie app and was pleased. However, when I got home and pulled it off my iPhone (I exported as 720 HD) and dragged into iTunes and tried to sync to the Apple TV I got a warning that Apple TV could not ... (6 Comments)

Hey Gary, I have a 320GB external Seagate HDD, which has 3 partitions. I want to retain one partition, which has important stuff, but erase the other two and merge them into one partition. Is it possible without formatting the whole drive? — Dhruv ... (1 Comment)

Hey is there any 12 volt adapter for an iphone to play the music off it from the cars speakers Thanks — George Hill ... (1 Comment)

My house is not wired for Ethernet, and the only phone (DSL) connection is upstairs, but most of my computing occurs downstairs. So right now, I do all of my networking over WiFi with a D-Link VWR 802.11g router required for my Vonage VOIP phone line. I occasionally need a Wired ... (3 Comments)

Hi Gary, I’ve been trying to find a way that when I drag or save a file onto my desktop that it will take the next available place on the grip but it always takes a lower place on the desktop grid because I had some files there before, is there a way to permanently make it ... (1 Comment)

Does anyone remember the company that Gary advertised on Macmost Now for transporting an iMac, I am almost positive it was his show that I saw it on. When I do a goole search, I am not getting the link I am looking for. Thanks. — wshaneh ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, How does one view a previously viewed webpage in Safari when the internet connection is off? It was possible in i-explorer and firefox but there doesn’t seem to be any “Work Offline” mode here. thanks — Dhruv ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary, I have a Mac Pro with one of the bays used for TM. If my MBP is on the same network as the MP, can I set it up for TM backups? BTW, I am using FileVault on the MBP. I’d also like to clone the contents of my MBP using one of the HDD partitions on the MP. I have ... (7 Comments)

Hi Gary I just purchased the iPhone 4 and I upgraded my iPhone 3GS with ios4 when I activate the iPhone 4 my 3GS becomes an iPod so I was wondering if you knew of a web site that can give me step by step instruction on how to jailbreak and unlock my 3GS with the ios4 installed ... (2 Comments)

Gary, is your Macmost.com switching to mac form windows book only available as hard copy or can I buy an ebook from some site? — Dhruv ... (1 Comment)

Gary Do you know whether iTunes encrypts the Apple ID and password when accessing the iTunes Store? I frequently have access only to unencrypted wireless networks (that are not under my control), and while it is obviously unsafe to access e-mail over such a network, is it safe to ... (3 Comments)

Hey, Does anyone know what’s wrong with the foll workflow to import songs into itunes and then delete original files (Itunes is already set to make it’s copy)? Get selected finder items Import into itunes move finder items to trash. It’s giving an error in ... (3 Comments)

In my old version of iMovie, I can detach audio and cut it separately from the video (e.g., when the video glitches, and I have to move the audio to make it match up again). In the newest version, that doesn’t seem possible. Would they really have gotten rid of such a ... (9 Comments)

Why didn’t the iPad come into the picture at all concerning OS 4? Does anyone know anything about it>?? — Professor Kayyos ... (1 Comment)

Gary is it okay to delete all my user preference files in my user preference folder. — Imacer ... (4 Comments)

is there a way with imac / macbook to create a custom alarm. for example, to have an alarm/message pop up every 2 hours with a specific reminder? — pat ... (4 Comments)

Gary On the new Iphone 4 is there a way to close all programs at one time that are in the multitasking area instead of one at a time. Thanks Dan — Daniel ... (3 Comments)

The following is my response I just sent to Apple regarding Apple’s email about reception problems: Your article may make sense to someone but not me. Previous to buying my 4G I had a 3G iPhone for 2 years. Even though the bars were low when I used my iPhone at my home I ...