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.1/18/12
I have a iPhone3GS with iOS 5.0.1 update. Suddenly the display of the Safari browser is locked on landscape only & does not revert to portrait when holding the iPhone upright. Has anyone experienced this recently? Is there a solution?
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Brian
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1/17/12
How to find unique and duplicate records in Numbers?
I use the current version of Numbers on my iMac (also on iPad and iPhone, but I can do this on the desktop).
In Excel you can use conditional formatting to easily identify duplicate records and also unique records. Then easily ... (6 Comments)
1/17/12
Recently I took a backup of my iPhone data on iCloud for the first time (it’s my new iPhone4S), I don’t know what went wrong (I did sync also) I am not sure what steps I did but now I have duplicate contacts in my iPhone, when I go to any of my contact, on top it ... (15 Comments)
1/17/12
Using Pages layout for a brochure, is it possible to temporarily drag objects onto the grey area to the right and keep them visible while I work on the document so that I can change things around. I have found that I get the outline text box left but the text, photo or clipart ... (3 Comments)
1/17/12
Is it possible to connect a dial-up modem (an external modem I would assume) to a MacBook Pro to dial into a data base server? I’m not sure if this even possible but curious to know if it is.
Thank you.
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Bob P.
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1/16/12
I’m trying to put together a strategy for how I want to store my images, but I’m not sure how to do this. I have a MacBook Pro with a 500GB hard drive. I am going to purchase an external hard drive, probably also 500GB. I have about 200GB of images right now. So ... (5 Comments)
1/16/12
I haven’t found anything on Apple’s website, and the opinions on other sites vary. My 2+ yr. old Mac Mini started having some problems reading DVDs and CDs. You can hear them spinning, then getting ejected. My guess is the CD lens is dirty.
Would it be safe to use a ... (3 Comments)
1/16/12
I am trying to make a proposal sheet that has checkboxes for each item I am trying to propose and a totals column at the end. I would like to have it so that when a certain cell is checked it adds a numeric value into the totals box at the end. BasiCally, service x is $50 per ... (1 Comment)
1/15/12
I enjoy drawing scenery pictures on adobe photoshop and have found that I can do onscreen tutorials on youtube. What is the best way of recording your Mac screen (in high quality) and how do I go about publishing the video to YouTube? Will I need a third party ... (2 Comments)
1/15/12
Is there a way Lion can and add a reminder to the iCloud Reminders that appear in iOS 5?
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Ray
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1/15/12
I take photos with my iPhone 4S, usually the GPS locations are correct. However, sometimes my phone does not find a GPS location and therefore photos in iPhoto imported do not show any location. When trying to add a position in the little info box on the bottom right of iPhoto 11 ... (1 Comment)
1/14/12
I have the MacBook Pro with lion OS. Just purchased an HP x2301 monitor and surprised to find that it will not install the software and instructions disc (.exe install) The annoying thing is that there is nothing on the packaging to indicate that the software disc is for windows. ... (2 Comments)
1/14/12
My friend just bought a iPhone 4S, she said she could not transfer her info from her old phone to her new iPhone. I asked her to come over and I would try to help. I have tried connecting her iPhone 4S to my MBP but connect even get them to connect. I read on Apple forums that ... (3 Comments)
1/14/12
When I get junk mail in my iCloud me.com account on my iPhone, I move it to the junk folder. Does the iCloud mail learn from this so that I don’t have to do it forever to unwanted messages from a particular source? Or am I stuck going to the move routine for each one with ... (1 Comment)
1/12/12
I have two iPods with the same Apple id that I would like to separate for my two boys, but if I change one, the other seems to change too. How can I make them separate?
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Paula
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1/12/12
I am trying to find the shortcut key to scroll to the top of the document and to the end of the document in Mac Word 2011.
I have the iMac and MacBook Pro where the page up down and Home And End keys are absent.
Is there an alternate shortcut key for the ... (3 Comments)
1/12/12
We have 6 Mac Pros, all have the same amount of RAM and the same processor speed. We’ve noticed when we set up all Machines to render video for a project, (we store asset files locally on each Machine) one particular Machine is twice as fast as the 5 others. A closer look ... (1 Comment)
1/12/12
I’ve created a keepsake in iPhoto09. I want to upload it to FB, but I wasn’t able to due to copyright issue (theme song). I can save it as pdf, but it’s huge! Too big to email to my family and friends. Tried saving it as jpeg, but it would only save the first ... (1 Comment)
1/11/12
Is there a way of creating an E-mail template on a Mac. I use the Mail.app which came pre-installed and would like to have the option of opening a custom made E-mail template, each time I write a new email.
Much appreciated,
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Darren
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1/11/12
I have about half a year’s worth of full HD home movies sitting on an external harddrive. I want to place them all into iMovie and stream it to AppleTV seeing as burning them to a DVD will only reduce the quality. My question is how can I stream AppleTV without taking up a ... (7 Comments)
