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.6/1/12
The green button when clicked maximises the Finder window, not to full screen like in Windows, but to the actual maximise of it based on the number of items. But I notice this resizing happens on horizontally, so more detail headings get accommodated. But not vertiCally, so as to ... (6 Comments)
6/1/12
I have had access to my MobileMe email account on my droid-powered phone for better than a year. However, Apple has now moved over to iCloud and I have been told that Droid phones do not support iCloud email access. Is there a way around this???
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Erin Vogt
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6/1/12
I am trying to add a video of me teaching to a keynote presentation. I would like to do this the same way Gary does on all of his teachings. He has the little video box inside the video of what he is teaching.
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jeff Pennypacker
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5/30/12
With OS X Mountain Lion debuting this summer. Will its new feature Gatekeeper replace OS X’s built in Malware Scanner (XProtect)? What I am wondering is will Gatekeeper just be a more advanced version? I’ve heard people mention that Gatekeeper is going to be built ... (8 Comments)
5/29/12
Is It Possible To Sync Email Between My I-Mac and My New I-Pad on a Pop3 Account? My ISP is Road Runner and I hate having to see the same emails on my I-Mac, MacBook Air and I-Pad and having to delete the ones I’ve read 3 different times. I went into the preference pane and ... (4 Comments)
5/29/12
I have a MacBook Pro, if I go into the energy saving settings in system preferences, I come across 2 tabs relating to Battery and Power Adapter.
Within each I come across 2 sliding scales relating to:
Computer Sleep
Display sleep
and tick boxes for:
Put the hard disk to sleep ... (3 Comments)
5/25/12
When I sync my iPhone to my MacBook Pro my Notes are mixed in with my emails in my Inbox. My Notes can also be found under the Notes icon in the sidebar. When tidying up my inbox if I delete a Note it also disappears from the list in the Notes icon in the sidebar. Is there anyway ... (4 Comments)
5/25/12
I would like to know if you could describe how to sun iCal with google cal (and iCloud as well).
I would like it to be a two way sync – that is, every entry in iCal will automatiCally sync to google cal. And also all entries in google cal will automatiCally sync to ... (24 Comments)
5/25/12
Is it possible to Download Mac compressed files, .dmg etc on a Windows PC and then transfer them from PC to Mac using USB Stick or external hard drive, and everything will be fine once transferred to the Mac.
If i’m making sense !
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Simon
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5/24/12
Hey, I just got a thunderbolt display!! Woot!
Can I view the desktop’s standard toolbar on my external monitor? the “(Apple logo) safari file edit view history…” toolbar. Right now, I can only see it on my MacBook Pro, and its annoying to continuously ... (1 Comment)
5/23/12
I own a MacBook Pro Snow Leopard Edition. I would like to know, generally speaking, how many years do people own their MacBook Pros for, before upgrading to a new one. Would it be reasonable to expect at least 4 years good usage out of it?
Also is it true, that one needs to keep ... (4 Comments)
5/21/12
I have edited pictures in iPhoto and want to upload that version with captions to something like Picasa in order to share with family and friends. How and through what service can this be done?
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MJ
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5/20/12
Gary, several Mac Power users have told me not to use Adobe Reader, Adobe AIR or Shockwave Player on my Mac for security reasons and that only Adobe Flash Player is ok to use. So I use OS X Lion, keep my Mac as well as 3rd party software up to date & follow all the rules of ... (7 Comments)
5/19/12
How Do I archive my music, movies and photos to free up hard drive space on my iMac desktop 2.8Ghz-4GB RAM running OS X 10.7.4
I use three external hard drives for various back up jobs and would like to move the data heavy files from my desktop drive to one of these 2TB outboard ... (13 Comments)
5/18/12
Hi, Gary. I would like to know, please, if there is a way to deactivate the Touch-pad while I am using the wireless mouse…I use the mouse 95% of the time and I use my Mac to work on translation. I have to type very fast and sometime (a lot) I touch the pad by accident and ... (2 Comments)
5/17/12
Microsoft Word (operating in Windows) has two very handy but little-known keyboard shortcuts. I’d like to know whether these same tricks can be performed in Pages ’09. I use a MacBook Pro 15-in (2010) running Snow Leopard.
1. Click anywhere in a word. Then hold down ... (2 Comments)
5/16/12
I bought my first MBP for a little more than 2 years ago leaving windows.
I have been very happy with this switch, but for the last 4 months my Mac has gotten very slow.
It is so slow that it takes minutes to open an application like safari or word/pages. And even when open, the ... (10 Comments)
5/16/12
first of all, let me congratulate you for your wonderful web site.
Your videos are very helpful. You do a very great job !
And I’d like to thank you very much for that.
This is my question :
I can connect my Mac to a free wifi network (hotspot) provided by my ISP when ... (2 Comments)
5/15/12
Hi Gary,
Is there a way I can store certain emails in a file so they’re not mixed in with the regular emails? I’d like to be able to pull up the emails for reference and thought there might be a way to have the emails automatiCally appear in a folder.
Any thoughts or ... (3 Comments)
5/15/12
Gary, I’d like your view of setting up a second (separate) Time Capsule for a new Mac Mini. I have a Time Capsule now and use it for my MacBook Pro. Soon, I will be getting a Mac Mini as part of my setup and will want to set it up with Time Machine. I have no problem buying ... (5 Comments)
