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.9/8/16
Have put many audiobooks in the Cloud..I want to totally delete about 1/2 (50)?
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Kay Arnold
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9/8/16
I recently updated my iPhone 5 to the iPhone SE. I transferred my sim card to the new phone and ‘restored’ my old phone to clear out everything. But now when I try to use my old phone for music or photo storage, it keeps asking me to insert a sim card, and won’t ... (2 Comments)
9/6/16
I often see animated .gif files, and would like to save them for reuse. Is there a way to do that on my iPhone?
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Jack Weibel
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9/5/16
Periodically, when I awake my MacBook in the morning, I get a message that says, “This computer’s local hostname “MacBook Pro-8.local” is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to “MacBook-Pro-9.local.”
Why does this happen? ... (4 Comments)
9/5/16
I am thinking of purchasing a MacBook Pro as a second device to use for travelling. I already have a desktop PC that is the main archive of all my family’s documents, photos, and iTunes music library; I have been using a PC laptop for travelling. I have been storing ... (2 Comments)
9/4/16
My son-in-law shares photos of my grandchildren in an album on my iPad photos app. I want to download them to my iMac (el Capitan) so I can use them in scrapbooks, etc. I would prefer not to do them one at a time as there are approx. 1000 photos.
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Lynda Farabee
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9/3/16
imac just plugged into surge supressor no ups.
during a thunderstorm i had the imac off.
the power went out to the house for 30 seconds. when the power came back on to the house the imac turned on.
I want to find the software setting that triggered it to turn on after the power ... (1 Comment)
8/31/16
I had a hardware issue on my MacBook Pro and have to re-install my MS Office for Mac 2011. How do I do this correctly? The product key that I have is does not seem to be the same format as the ones I see in ‘help’ pages in Google.
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Douglas Swanson
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8/31/16
I’d like to replace a stand alone copy machine using a canoscan 9000f and a HP1320N connected to my 27″ late 2012 iMac running 10.11.6.
Requirements are ease of use for my spouse , decent speed (doesn’t have to be blazingly fast – minute or less) and ... (2 Comments)
8/31/16
Is there any way to incorporate a photo image into my signature on my iPhone SE?
ie:
Sent from my iPhone
(000) 123-4567
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Jack Weibel
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8/31/16
Gary, regardless of how much storage I might have, I’d like to delete photos from my iphone 6 yet retain them on both my desktop mac and on iCloud. Is this possible if all three are synced? I’d like to do this in bulk, not by tedious individual selection/deletion on ... (9 Comments)
8/30/16
I am going to buy a new Mac mini 2014 (2.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 – $699), and a new 29″ LG Monitor (Class 21:9 UltraWide® Full HD IPS LED Monitor – 2560×1080 pixel).
We know that Mac Mini has 2 mini DisplayPort, and the LG monitor has DisplayPort ... (3 Comments)
8/29/16
How Do I Print a Single Label From Contacts To a Specific Location (column and Row) On a Sheet Of Avery Labels?
Using iMac with El Capitan, v10.11.6. No problem printing label, but always only in column 1, row 1. Word would allow printing to specific location on the label sheet ... (2 Comments)
8/28/16
Gary, when sending pictures to a PC, this person had great difficulty opening them. I sent jpg, zipped jpgs etc. He finally was able to open them but then he sent this to me,
“his request was made to send photos non embedded. What does that mean & how do I do that in ... (2 Comments)
8/27/16
I am using Pages version 5.6.2
I have created a table and I would like the text going vertical instead of horizontal is some of the cells.
How do I do that?
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Marcia
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8/27/16
How do you not display the time machine disc icon on the desktop of a macbook pro running OS11
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BillM
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8/24/16
When we are using TextEdit (or similar app) on a Mac and when we write a word whose spelling is not recognized by the built-in dictionary, we often see a squiggly line under the word to warn us. If it is a spelling error then we can correct the spelling. But sometimes it is a ... (1 Comment)
8/23/16
On my desktop, if I control-click a file, one of the menu choices that appears is “Move to Dropbox” which will move the file/folder to my Dropbox folder in Finder.
How do I or can I create more options for this “Move to” list? For example create a ... (3 Comments)
8/23/16
I mostly use Safari for most of my web browsing, but I often need to switch to Google Chrome for some sites for the Flash support. My typical work around for the flash issue is to go to the Develop menu in safari and switch the User Agent to iPad. This will typically make those ... (1 Comment)
8/22/16
Hi Gary! I´m running El Capitan 10.11.6 on a late 2013 iMac. I use pinned tabs in Safari 9.1.2, but sometimes can´t remember what page they refer to, especially if I have more than, say, three or four. The little letters are so small they´re hard to read and there´s often no ... (5 Comments)
