The MacMost Question and Answer Forum is a place where you can ask how-to questions about your Mac, iPhone, iPad and other Apple products. MacMost specializes in tutorials, tips and techniques of the “how-to” variety, as opposed to “fix-it” questions that are more about something not working as expected.5/5/17
I want to create a contract with a placeholder for {date} and {name}. I plan on creating a word processing template and when I open it there would be placeholders for these fields.
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John Scibal
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5/5/17
Hello Gary,
In almost all your videos, your picture-in-picture is a square with round corners.
In some other YouTube videos, the presenter picture-in-picture is a circle.
I use ScreenFlow and the only shape available seems to be a rectangle.
In brief, what is the trick (or ... (1 Comment)
5/4/17
I want to reformat an external back up drive and remove the partions on it.
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donnaVit
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5/1/17
Hello Gary, this is related to the VPN videos you did recently. I have a VPN app on my iPhone and Mac (VPN Unlimited). On the phone the app is ‘on’ and it shows connected to Singapore and I can see a different IP address etc. But Google Maps is still able to show my ... (2 Comments)
4/30/17
I’ve been a subscriber of iTunes Match since it was very introduced. Until maybe a few months ago for those songs that I added to my iTunes library (e.g., ripped from CDs) but not purchased from iTunes, Apple would either match the song or tag it is uploaded. In either ... (3 Comments)
4/30/17
I notice that there are 3405 photos on my mac Photos app, but only 3119 photos on my iPhone All Photos, despite turning on ICloud Photo Library. Shouldn’t it be the same across devices? And if I delete a photo in one device, will it instantly disappear on the ... (9 Comments)
4/28/17
Since upgrading to Sierra, I regularly have a pop-up window: “To use the ‘java’ command-line tool you need to install a JDK. Click ‘more info’ to visit the Java Developer Kit download website.”
But I am not a developer. I have tried turning ... (3 Comments)
4/28/17
I want to synchronize my IPhone 5s, my 3 yr old iPad mini and my 2 year old Apple regular not pro lap top to my calendar, and iPhoto. I can get two to work but not all three. How do I do this? They are all on Sierra and upgraded to the latest 10.0. I am really after the steps to ... (1 Comment)
4/27/17
using a macbook pro(13 inch)
MacOS sierra-10.12.
I am 81yrs old -very new to computers. need simple language.
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mort
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4/27/17
Example: (main classification folder) Trains >(sub-category folders containing individual bookmarks) + individual bookmarks not in a sub-category folder.
I want to sort just the individual bookmarks within each sub-category folder without having all sub-catagory folders sorted ... (1 Comment)
4/27/17
I have created a spreadsheet of bowls match results in “apple Numbers”, with each match result containing three pieces of information.There are 18 matches worth of data on each row of the spread sheet, therefore a total of 54 cells per row and I want to test every ... (1 Comment)
4/26/17
I want to switch from Gmail and Chrome to Mail and Safari. However, I haved saved emails numbering 4,000+ from a friend under a particular label for more than dozen years that I must preserve. How can I download just those conversations to an external drive? They reside on a new ... (1 Comment)
4/26/17
The title says it all, I want to clear history etc. from a specific website using Safari. I have an iPhone, iPad and Mac laptop. Clearing history currently clears all data from all websites. Any workaround would be helpful.
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Brenda Brooks
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4/23/17
I use Apple mail on my iMac. When printing an email the font is extremely small. My printer is Epson XP 400.
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Beth Erskine
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4/23/17
I have created a ringtone from a segment of a song in iTunes, renamed it to .m4r, etc. It appears in the iTunes list of ringtones. I use iTunes Music Library (the iCloud subscription match service) to make content available everywhere, so I have never plugged my phone into the ... (2 Comments)
4/22/17
I have an iPhone 7 Plus with current OS. I use Mail and generally Chrome but would change to Safari if necessary. I have several email accounts active on my phone. Can I set distinctive tones for each of the different email accounts so that I can identify incoming emails as to ... (1 Comment)
4/22/17
I’m a teacher and intend to stream some of my presentations for my students. At Apple events and other tech conferences, in the livestream, the video they show contains two videos – one showing the speaker, the other the presentation. It feels more engaging and I ... (1 Comment)
4/21/17
When I open email the app has my curser down about 30 emails. I have to scroll up to the top every time. It there a setting to tell my iPad email app to place the email either at the top most of my email list. All emails are read. I just want to be at the top of the email list ... (3 Comments)
4/20/17
When i click a link in a gmail message on my ipad, it opens in Chrome. Is there a way to get to open in Safari? Thanks
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Charlie Campney
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4/20/17
Hello, I just watched Gary’s video on wifi strength and that it is not the only indicator of overall communications strength. Essentially, you’re only as strong as the weakest link. The graphic above his head made it very easy to understand what he was talking ... (3 Comments)
