MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


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12/8/12
(I know it is much better to keep things short and sweet, but I do not know how to do that in this situation and make sure I am all set to go once I get the full equipped rMBP) I am a professor with the online division of a university back East. I have been using the same fully ... (9 Comments)
12/8/12
I Have three Macs and would ideally like to automatiCally sync my playlists between the Macs – is this possible ? Also, I have made all my playlist on one computer and now wants to copy them to another – but it seems that I have to import every single playlist one of ... (7 Comments)
12/7/12
I would like to know how to create an icon to launch a particular website, in other words a shortcut to that site. It was always easy in Windows. Another question is there an easy way to change the default icons already on the desktop to something not so ... (3 Comments)
12/7/12
We have one iMac(Lion) with two separate user accounts, two separate photo libraries and are going to get two iPhones. We have a primary and a secondary Apple ID. It should be easy to run two photo streams, one to each iPhone using both Apple IDs. I have read that the iMac will ... (4 Comments)
12/5/12
I would like to change the tempo (speed) of a karaoke track for my daughter’s talent show accompaniment. That might affect the key of the song so I would also like to know if I can raise it to match her range and make it sound “in tune.” I am working on an iMac, ... (3 Comments)
12/4/12
We are buying our daughter a new laptop to take off to college for Christmas. How do we 1 create her own Apple ID without her losing all the music and appls now associated with our current shared Apple ID. 2 set up her new laptop with iTunes with the current info(songs and apps) ... (1 Comment)
12/4/12
Hi Gary My husband and I decided to go separate ways, it’s all quite amicable, but one of the hardest things about the break up seems to be how to split the iTunes account ;-) We have used a shared iTunes account for Music, Books and App purchases. This account is also set ... (2 Comments)
12/3/12
I am unable to get Mac mail to work on my Samsung pad. I have copied name, password, imap, all the details I can find to match what works on my iPhone and Mac desktop without any success. What is the key I am missing? Thank you kindly. —– Walt Corey ... (5 Comments)
12/3/12
Is it Possible To Have Multiple Apple IDs & If so what are the potential benefits & drawbacks ? Also do matters become complicated further if you emigrate to a new country eg USA to UK or vice versa ? —– Simon ... (20 Comments)
12/3/12
When I text from my iPhone, it capitalized first letter of each sentence and puts a period at the end of the sentence and puts in an apostrophe for contractions. Can I get OS X messages to do this too? From my phone, my text look grammatiCally accurate; when I text from my Mac, I ... (5 Comments)
12/2/12
While receiving the latest Mountain Lion update, my iTunes was changed. How do I revert to previous iTunes from the ‘updated’ version 11? —– John M ... (23 Comments)
12/1/12
On the Apple website, it implies that iTunes makes it possible to stream movies from iCloud:”iCloud makes iTunes even better, because your music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, and more live not just on your computer, but on all your other devices, too. With iCloud, you ... (2 Comments)
11/30/12
I thought that iPad3 would handle raw files, My transfer of jpeg are OK but the Raw files, (NEF), are not transferring when using iTunes sync Do I need another app to do it? —– Gary ... (4 Comments)
11/30/12
In earlier versions of iTunes, there was a way to view the status of all downloads in one window. You could see a progress bar corresponding to each download, including apps and podcasts. Usually three items could be downloaded concurrently, and it was convenient to be able to ... (3 Comments)
11/30/12
Hi like the new iTunes but cant see how now to shuffle all my albums. —– Gary M ... (7 Comments)
11/29/12
Is there a way that my mail can show up as soon as I receive it on my Mac like the way it does on my iPad and iPhone? —– Jason ... (1 Comment)
11/29/12
Do you need wifi to listen to fm radio with the Nano 7th generation —– Becky ... (2 Comments)
11/28/12
I forgot the password to an external drive I encrypted with ML which has rendered it unusable. I don’t care about the contents, I simply want to wipe the drive so I can use it. But every time I plug in to try and do so, it asks for a password. So is it possible to somehow ... (4 Comments)
11/28/12
I am considering buying an iPad2. One of the things I would like to do is sync a music library to the iPad. Another thing I would like to do is sync some photos from an iPhoto library to the iPad. The issue is that the content is in two libraries, and I would like to know if ... (1 Comment)
11/28/12
I want to buy a new Mac. —– DP ... (1 Comment)