MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


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12/1/11
I have a first generation iPad and suddenly a floating icon appeared on the screen. When tapped it opens and I’m able to mute or unmute, control the volume, etc. I don’t know what I did to get it there but my husband has an iPad 2 and wants one on his screen. Any ... (1 Comment)
12/1/11
I have a group of clips of sporting events. I have a list of times for each clip that I want to select and put into my project to build a highlight of plays / players. I cannot find a setting that will show me a time of where in the clip I am selecting.(i.e. 4:10 into ... (3 Comments)
12/1/11
I am selling my MacBook Pro and then buying a newer one. It originally had Snow Leopard on it, but I bought Lion through the App Store. Can I give them the license for Lion since I will already be buying a new MacBook Pro with Lion pre-installed? If I can, how do I transfer the ... (3 Comments)
12/1/11
I have a MacBook Pro with 2 users, myself and my wife. How do i access some of my wife’s music to be seen in my iTunes? I dont want to import the CD again into my user login thus creating duplicate files. As far as i know i have turned on file sharing but if i go through ... (1 Comment)
12/1/11
Is it possible to have Time Machine back up to two different hard drives? —– Ron Paris ... (4 Comments)
12/1/11
Recently I upgrade my iPod touch to 5.01 and iTunes match and it erase nearly a half of my album artworks, all my albums have artworks before I upgrade to 5.01 and iTunes match.. I checked my iPhone to and many of the artworks are gone.. what I suppose to do with this ... (3 Comments)
12/1/11
The Prey uninstaller will not work for me. I click on it, enter my computer password to authenticate, and then nothing happens. Prey seems to have good reviews, but I’ll take my chances without it. When I visit the Prey Project website and sign in I find my computer is ... (6 Comments)
12/1/11
Just discovered that, despite Twitter integration in iOS 5, there is no option to tweet video. Can anyone recommend a third-party app to do this? —– Cameron ... (3 Comments)
11/30/11
Is there a way to take multiple photos and stitch them together into one large image in Mac OS X? —– Cameron ... (10 Comments)
11/30/11
How Can You Share Entire iCals To a Different Family Member On Another Mac Computer? if i have my Macpro and my wife has her Mac air, how can we share our iCal events in real time? not in an export calendar way but where we can see each others changes sort of like delegates was ... (1 Comment)
11/30/11
I just upgraded my Mac book to Snow Leopard version 10.6.8 and have discovered Time Machine. I have an old (2004) iomega Mini Max desktop hard drive with 250MG. It’s formatted for Mac/PC. Will it work or give me problems? —– Cathy Greene ... (1 Comment)
11/29/11
Gary, just curious, I have a 250GB hard drive running VMware and a fairly stripped down installment of XP. I have about 40GB of music and a hand full of pictures. I have 25GB left on my drive. I think it is time for a bigger one, but my question is if I will see any performance ... (6 Comments)
11/29/11
How Do I Stop All the Path Details From Showing When I Forward and Email In Lion Mail App? If I forward and email I get the following lines above the actual email: From, Subject, Date, To, Cc, Received, Thread-topic, Thread-index, Message-id, References, In-reply-to, ... (9 Comments)
11/29/11
It’s probably obvious, but I just can’t find it! Trying to add the accent aigue to words like pave….etc. —– Vicky ... (1 Comment)
11/29/11
Series cannot all three digit numbers? I tried and it said sorry I cannot call 111. —– cyrus.dubash@gmail.com ... (1 Comment)
11/28/11
I have a MacBookAir with 128GB of flash storage, which I back up to a 2TB Time Capsule, along with my iMac. Currently, my Time Capsule has 1.5TB of space remaining. I know I can store large files that I don’t need while traveling (like my iPhoto Library and iMovie events) ... (4 Comments)
11/27/11
I keep multiple drives connected to a USB hub to my MBP. Is there a way to eject them all at once or do I need to hit the eject button for each drive? —– Graham Staniforth ... (3 Comments)
11/27/11
Hello, I ran a virus scan on my MBP and I found a virus 2554.emlx. Does anybody know anything about this virus? I took a screen shot of the Norton Screen but I don’t know how to post it. —– Ethiel ... (6 Comments)
11/27/11
Is there a list of fonts common to iPad and a Mac computer that stay constant when documents are sent through iCloud? —– Bruce McLaughlin ... (3 Comments)
11/27/11
I can get file sharing to work but screen sharing keeps spinning its wheel when it comes to logging in, and does so forever. whats wrong? Running SnowLeopard Macmini/MacBook —– markbook ... (1 Comment)