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.9/9/12
I use a MacBook Pro and an Airport Extreme Base Station. But have thought about buying a Mac Mini w/ OS X M.L. Server. The reason being is I am on the road a lot and don’t want to lug around all my external hard drives. So could I connect a Mac Mini Server directly to my ... (7 Comments)
9/9/12
Selecting the font every time you type text in Keynote (latest) (or iPhoto come to that) is very frustrating. Is there a way to make the chosen font a default attribute throughout the Keynote slide show, or even in iPhoto (latest) – same problem.
Using Keynote for photo ... (1 Comment)
9/7/12
Gary, I have decided I will buy a second MacBook for use at home (MacBook Pro with MacBook Air). I presently use a Time Capsule for backup (for the MBP). My intentions are to set the MBA to use the same Time Capsule. I understand that with Mountain Lion, I can have each laptop ... (2 Comments)
9/6/12
Hi everyone. I’m about to do a reinstall on my Leopard (10.5.8) and some of my older 3rd party software is lacking the .dmg’s to reinstall the software. My question is after I’ve backed up everything and after the reinstall is complete, do I need the ... (3 Comments)
9/5/12
We have a wireless network that is identified by a WEP key rather than a password. To be connected to it, a device’s Mac address must be registered and then the device (in this case an I-Pad) must connect using my wi-fi’s WEP key. We have guests arriving who will want ... (5 Comments)
9/2/12
Grrr, is there a way to stop Lion from always moving my desktop icons? I want to keep them arranged my way. Thanks for any help.
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Chip
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9/2/12
I am new to the Mac and wonder what kind of things are built into Mountain Lion which protect you from Malware and/or malicious applications. So I’ve talked with seasoned Mac users and they’ve mentioned things like xProtect, Gatekeeper and File Quarantine protect you ... (12 Comments)
8/31/12
I am using the iPad with Pages and Keynote and I need to add images from camera roll and photo stream. These images are usually the last images saved or taken (screenshots). Adding the images is simple but a bit of an annoyance to have to scroll down every time to the bottom of ... (1 Comment)
8/27/12
I have a 1TB hard drive on my iMac. I am thinking of selling it and getting a new MacBook Pro, but the limited hard drive space of the new flash drives has me concerned, since even the largest won’t hold my current data. Most of my 830GB of data consists of movies and music ... (1 Comment)
8/27/12
I bought a 512gb SSD to upgrade my early 2011 MacBook Pro and the speed increase is fantastic. (The computer also has an i7 processor and 16gb of ram). Moving to the SSD has by far produced the most dramatic speed bump, infact when I went to a genius bar at my local Mac store ... (4 Comments)
8/26/12
I have my iTunes media folder connected to a network hard drive(it is plugged into an Airport Extreme).
Of course, my MacBook leaves the house every day and when I get back, iTunes has forgotten where the media folder is. I have to re-path it, and then it takes at least five ... (1 Comment)
8/26/12
I have a program that i use for work, that is in dos. It’s a scheduling program. Anyway, in order for me to put in place an employee at work i use the insert key. But when i try to work on it at home on my MacBook Pro, i can not figure out what key is the insert. Do you ... (3 Comments)
8/26/12
Hi gary,
I have a 2008 i-Mac which I’m considering upgrading to Mountain Lion. I also have an early 2008 MacBook running Lion, which I won’t be able to upgrade. If I upgrade my i-Mac, are there any potential issues regarding syncing with i-cloud for mail, address ... (1 Comment)
8/25/12
Hello Gary,
In your experience, which is the best app to access MS Office docs in iPhone and why?
Thanks.
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Sunny Sharma
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8/23/12
My “Shared” section in the sidebar of Finder windows lists a Windows computer which, presumably, is one somewhere in our neighborhood. It’s definitely foreign to everyone in our Mac-only household. I don’t want its distraction. How can I get rid of this? ... (7 Comments)
8/23/12
I bought a mid 2011 iMac and found there’s no iDVD to get my home video to DVD to share and watch on TV. Any suggestions on software that is darn close to iDVD. Or if I bought iDVD 9 online, could I just install the iDVD part of the disc and would it run properly with ... (6 Comments)
8/23/12
I have a 2TB hard drive which has two partitions on it. I would like to delete one and use the remaining space for the other partition, on which has my Time Machine back up on it. Can this be done without having to reformat the other partition?
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John Santini
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8/22/12
I have 4 different email accounts that I set up in my Mac’s mail to receive. They are all jumbled in there together. The same 4 are on my iPad and iPhone and I can choose which account I want to look at. I don’t see how to do that on my iMac. Can this be done? ... (3 Comments)
8/22/12
I am selling my MacBook and would like to clear all my informaiton out and reinstall the software. I would like it to be back to factory default,
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Matt MacNichol
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8/17/12
I am trying to make my office “Paperless” which means I will need to start scanning a large amount of documents. I am looking for suggestions about good, simple to use software that will allow me to do this efficiently. I am thinking something with OCR would be best ... (6 Comments)
