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.7/27/12
Gary, I am using a MacBook Pro, mid 2011 model. I have a Time Machine and it regularly backs up. I have rarely used it to restore any documents and never used it as a complete backup. I expect to upgrade to Mountain Lion in a while (after the first rush to the Apple servers). In ... (8 Comments)
7/26/12
Apple’s store tries to help in the choice between 8 and 16 gigs in the purchase decision for a retina display MBP. They say the 8 gig “allows you to work on complex tasks such as editing photos and videos…” They also say the 16 gig allows “…Aperture ... (3 Comments)
7/26/12
Like many others, I have been experimenting with the new iCloud features in Mountain Lion. For example, I have created some documents using TextEdit on my iMac and MacBook Pro and see that , as designed, a document created on either computer can be viewed on the other, thanks to ... (28 Comments)
7/25/12
I recently got a new MacBook Pro. I transferred all of my files from my time Machine back up, and everything works great. I just installed Mountain Lion today and I see that all of the updates are now handled through the app store. My iWork programs are not listed in purchased ... (7 Comments)
7/25/12
How do Photoshop and Lightroom work with Mountain Lion? If one does a lot of photo work with non-Apple products, should one wait before installing Mountain Lion?
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JACK LARSON
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7/24/12
How to create new gesture using Assistive touch in accessibility?
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arun rajendran
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7/22/12
Hope the Question explains the issue. In Word I often have to make a new file and place it in a new folder. But The function only give you the Main folders (the LEFT-menu) from Finder. And you can’t drill into the folder and it’s subfolders. And clearly you ... (3 Comments)
7/19/12
What’s the best way (any way?) to stream the playing of commercial DVD movies from my MacBook Pro with latest Lion to Apple TV 3 and on to our Panasonic HDTV? Do I need to use ripping software I see advertised, or does Apple let me do this easily? If I do have to rip a ... (3 Comments)
7/17/12
I have currently gotten into photography and have been uploading photos to my Mac Book Pro a lot more these days. I have not gotten into any major editing just yet so I have been using iPhoto for now to make any minor adjustments. When I do upload the photos they are imported ... (10 Comments)
7/11/12
I have a little audio recorder that stores its data on an SD card. I can can copy .mp3 files from the card to my computer with a USB card reader. That part works fine.
Trouble is — the total available space on the SD card shrinks, even after I use the finder to delete the ... (3 Comments)
7/11/12
I am a school administrator looking to implement a one to one device program in our high school. Our Apple rep stated that we can reasonably expect a three year life span for an iPad versus a five year life span for a MacBook. Any thoughts on this?
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John Berlin
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7/11/12
Leopard 10.5 and Snow Leopard 10.6 had a very useful heading of “search for” with the catagories “all images, all movies, all documents” on the far left side of the finder window. That heading and the cooresponding catagories have been eliminated from Lion ... (2 Comments)
7/10/12
If you were to have two computers (one desktop & one laptop), one being an Apple Mac and the other being a Windows PC, would you have :
An Apple Desktop & a Windows Laptop
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A Windows Desktop & an Apple MacBook
I am interested to know peoples views on this and why ... (10 Comments)
7/6/12
Gary, I was using Aperture and made the mistake of setting one of the images I was editing as my desktop image. I have gone to OS X preferences and found I can select all sorts of images, and would be glad to do so. However, I want to return to the default image of OS X Lion (I ... (4 Comments)
6/25/12
Hey Gary, Love the How to Video’s, Well I want to do a E-Magazine thru Mag Cloud and I will using Apple Pages, Just learning How to use it, My question is I want to use a Single Image for a 2 Page Spread in Pages, I can’t seem to be able to do it, or maybe it ... (1 Comment)
6/24/12
I would like to use Time Capsule as my Time Machine backup drive. Can I make Time Machine recognize an external hard disk that is connected to the USB port of the same Time Capsule that I am using for Time Machine backups? I am trying to set up my system where my iTunes & ... (13 Comments)
6/23/12
I will be upgrading my computer the end of the summer. Retina displays are incredible, but if I cannot print what I see on the screen, they are not compatible with what I do. A similar problem exists with sharing photographs with people who do not have a Retina ... (4 Comments)
6/21/12
I currently have 5 computers authorized on my iTunes account. I don’t remember which computers have been authorized and I have a new MacBook Air I want to authorize. After I deauthorize all computers how will I know which computers are to be added ... (1 Comment)
6/18/12
I need a reminder email to go out to a group of people. I want to do it now while all the info is still fresh in my mind.
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Michel
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6/16/12
How do you dub your voice onto a Final Cut Pro video? Say you make a video but don’t like your voice so how can you add it onto an exiting video? And can you also add someone else’s voice as well onto a different vocal track but add it into the same video once ... (1 Comment)
