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.5/14/12
I have a MacBook Pro from early 2008 that is up to date with OS X lion but still has all the old hardware such as a hard drive with moving parts. I’ve heard a lot about MacBook airs and the rumored new MacBook Pros that have flash memory (storage) with solid state drives. ... (1 Comment)
5/14/12
Each time I save or close the file I end up with a new icon on the desktop. I am obviously missing something in the initial set-up of the file
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Jack Schofield
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5/14/12
I’ve noticed that all emails that I send have an image of myself as well as “sent from my iPad” as part of the text block. Is there a way to get rid of or change this? The picture is a bad one and I would like to replace it with a better one and I would like to ... (2 Comments)
5/14/12
Hi Gary, I write about Numbers. I have a sheet with 6792 rows, but I want to copy a formula that is in row two to row 6791, as I can do it quickly?
thanks
regards
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Nelson Da Silva
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5/12/12
We have tons of kids videos on our iMac in iPhoto. They are starting to take up a lot of space. How can we select all videos in one batch (they are all located within different events), and move these over to our external hard drive?
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Pat
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5/12/12
I just discovered the Bodega app store for Mac. Are the apps vetted by anyone for quality? Is it generally safe to download apps from the Bodega store?
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Bob
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5/11/12
I would like to export a group of contacts from my Address Book and then import that group into the Address Book on my wife’s iPad
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Bruce Anschutz
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5/11/12
How do I decrease the resolution on iMac OS X 10.7.4?
I can barely read the basic type size 1920 x 1200, and the only other option in Preferences/Display is 960/600 (awful).
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John Argue
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5/11/12
Is it possible to to a Time Machine back-up to an external hard drive that’s connected directly to an Airport Extreme Base Station?
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Ayon
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5/10/12
My Event Library has a couple of iMovie Temporary Items. Won’t right click>Move to Trash; won’t File>Move to Trash. Not sure why program insists that I keep them? Can I delete them? If so, how?
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:-Dave
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5/3/12
I want to share my garage band file that I been working on my iMac (OS Lion) with other co-workers on their iPad1 so that they can edit it with their iPad garage band app.
How can I send or share my garage band file with my co-workers iPad even if their iPad are sync with other ... (4 Comments)
5/2/12
I am a vivid Keynote user and I love it. However, I wonder whether there is a way to define the colors of my shape drawings in a more easy-to-change fashion. What happens right now is that I define a color palette for my presentation and then use the colors defined in that ... (2 Comments)
5/1/12
I have an iMac with SSD and traditional hard drive. Now the SSD are getting full and I want to move stuff to the traditional hard drive since this i much larger. I have already moved iTunes library.
How can I move applications from the SSD drive to the traditional hard drive ? ... (5 Comments)
5/1/12
I received an e-mail from an old friend that I haven’t heard from in a very long time. I noticed in Mail in the list of e-mails on the left that there are two exclamation points next to his name. This doesn’t show up in the body or the header of the e-mail, just next ... (1 Comment)
4/26/12
Gary, I used to make titles for my home movies in AppleWorks drawing program.
I would import a small picture or some artwork and manipulate text on it. Then save it as a .jpeg and use it in my movies. I can’t use AppleWorks anymore, but I have Pages. Only in Pages I can’t ... (3 Comments)
4/25/12
Gary, I noticed that Apple sells an anti-virus software for the Mac on its website. http://store.Apple.com/us/product/H7310LL/A?
If Apple and power users such as yourself stress the lack of need for AV on the Mac, then why would Apple be selling this product? It seem a bit ... (3 Comments)
4/25/12
Is there a way to keep the format of my document when copying and pasting from TextEdit to Safari? It will copy from Safari into TextEdit with the formatting intact, but will not copy from TextEdit to Safari with the same formatting. It just jumbles into one big ... (5 Comments)
4/24/12
From keynote – I would like to print presenter notes but not one page per slide. I would prefer to use the 4 or 6 slides per page option that handouts offer but next to it (or underneath) have my presenter notes. You can do this with windows powerpoint – publish to ... (1 Comment)
4/24/12
I switched to Mac 2 years ago and I am happy I did. Something I can not duplicate on the Mac is the sort columns in the Windows explorer. In Windows Explorer in the Details View, I can sort by anything I want. There are about 50 different selections to pick. Something I would ... (5 Comments)
4/23/12
The Question I have for you is about backing up movies. I own an extensive movie collection and use handbrake to back them up. I fear that doing this is going to wear my drive out. Do you think that using an external disk drive would help? Would it slow the ... (6 Comments)
