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.2/4/13
I want to be able to let Pages for example keep running while I go to desktop for something else. My Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts says F11 but that key just increases the volume on my MacBook Pro
OS X 10.8.2
MacBook Pro 13 inch Early 2011
Thank you for any ... (4 Comments)
2/1/13
Its easy to do this from my iMac to someone using an iPhone but what about people that don’t have an iPhone? Is there a way to send them a SMS/text message from my iMac using OS X Messages?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Kendall
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Kendall
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2/1/13
I regularly hear about the imminent technological merger of a person’s computer and television.
Is it too soon to cancel my cable-tv subscription and subscribe to the few cable-tv programs I like (only two of them) via the Internet and watch these tv programs on my iMac ... (5 Comments)
1/31/13
I hope to switch to Mac mid year,
I think I will need access to some Windows programs and am thinking of parallels as well
Considering the iMac would now have “Windows”, would I now be exposed to virus?
Regards,
Gary W
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Gary
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1/31/13
Since the upgrade to Mountain Lion, there is an autocomplete function for the location when creating iCal events. If the word “at” appears in the event description, iCal automatically takes the text following that word and plugs it in to the location field. Also, for ... (1 Comment)
1/26/13
I recently purchased an MacAir a little apprehensive that it does not have a cd drive. I love making pic DVDs and messing with music. Thinking maybe I should go back and get the pro. I surf the Internet edit pictures and mess with music. Sometimes I have to write a paper for a ... (7 Comments)
1/23/13
I received an HD camcorder for Christmas which is great and I want to edit what I record using iMovie. When I connect the camcorder to my iMac, it automatically opens iPhoto to import the files. But I can also import using iMovie.
My question is, does it matter which I import ... (1 Comment)
1/22/13
In Numbers, how can I make the highest value in a list of currency values change colour? The list is constantly changing, so the highest cell value will also change. I’ve looked at Conditional Formatting but this doesn’t seem to be the answer. ... (2 Comments)
1/21/13
I am trying to find out how to keep the phone from auto answering when I get a call and unlock the phone. I would like to set it so that I have the option of answering or declining to answer. As long as the phone is unlocked the option feature works, but when locked and a call ... (3 Comments)
1/18/13
I am downloading files from my camera to my Mac and they are converting to tiffs.How can I change them to jpegs. Do you have any guide to using iPhoto. I am a learing the skills of photography and am having problems how iPhoto works. My kids treated me on my retirement to this ... (2 Comments)
1/17/13
A feature I used extensively in Snow Leopard (and some earlier OS X versions) is now missing from Mountain Lion. There used to be. Little slider in the bottom right hand corner that allowed you to adjust the size of file icons on the fly. Can I still access this function? Where ... (2 Comments)
1/17/13
In the other versions of the operating system I had no trouble in locating the files to back. Now I cannot seem to find the mail folder.
I just need to back these up every day to the server using automator.
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Sean
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1/17/13
My wife and I have different Apple id accounts she bought a book and reads it on her iPad I would like to read that same book on my iPad, is this possible without having to buy the book a second time?
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Byron Robinson
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1/16/13
I have a friend who has lots of photos in albums on the iPhone. The original media on the computer is gone. How can I import the photos in albums (not the camera roll) back to a pc or Mac without jailbreaking the iPhone?
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Daniel Annen
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1/16/13
Hi Gary – Need your down to earth & easily understandable advice after a bit of an endless loop on the ‘net – if I convert all iTunes music to mp3 (then deleting all AAC and others – for sake of easy compatibility with lot of devices/car etc, will I ... (1 Comment)
1/15/13
I have home movies which are HD that I would like to put on my iPad. Which compression codec should I use?
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John Santini
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1/15/13
I have an iMac desktop, Mountain Lion. I’m wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut to open Safari?
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Barb
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1/15/13
My current Mac desktop runs on Mac OS X-10.5.8 Safari.Are there any brand name external hard drives still compatible with this “obsolete” operating system? Thanks.
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Robert
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1/14/13
I have an older iMac… 5,1 2.16 GHz Core Duo with 2GB 667 MHz
DDR2 SDRAM …. if all this makes a difference ?
It is running 10.5.8 now and I would like to upgrade to 10.8.2
Mountain Lion. Please advise….
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John Olson
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1/13/13
My iOS apps are growing.
I think it’s because of video or audio recorded in the app. When I use iTunes to tell me the size of the apps, the largest one it finds is Dictionary- 144 MB. But I know there’s information hoarding going on because the “other” ... (2 Comments)
