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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11/21/11
How can an iTunes library be shared on a multi user computer (with separate user names?) I have tried using the shared folder but I don’t really understand what is happening…i am a pc user most of the day and this is driving me crazy!!! —– Stefanie ... (1 Comment)
11/21/11
I bought a MacBook Pro so I don’t really need my iMac now (OS X 10.6.8. – details on the Mac listed below). I’d set my 9.y.0. daughter up with her own desktop (seperate log in) so she could surf the web and have an iTunes account. Now I want to exit and leave ... (4 Comments)
11/20/11
My family has had great success uploading movies and photos to our MobileMe gallery while on the go from our iPhones. It is private and easy! What are our options after June 2012 when this goes away? I hope it isn’t Flicker and YouTube, I don’t care for the security. ... (3 Comments)
11/20/11
I’d like something a little more advanced than Disk Utilities for my Mac. I have just updated my Disk Warrior to the Lion version. I’d love to hear if things like TechTools Pro and Drive Genius are worth considering as well. Also, I have heard about products such as ... (3 Comments)
11/19/11
Is there a way to lock down the items on the Dock so that you can’t accidentally drag them off? I have a very sensitive Wacom Bamboo tablet, and I keep doing this. —– Shirl Parker ... (3 Comments)
11/19/11
This happened some time ago i set my home page to Virgin Media.com When i click on to Safari it`s just a blank screen. When i click on icon of the house it then loads in my home page When i clicked on Safari it automatically opened on my home page,can you tell me why it`s just ... (2 Comments)
11/19/11
Hi Gary – I have an iPhoto event with 2,000 pictures in it. I’d like to make a full exact copy, using a different event name of course. The goal is to have a “long set” of vacation photos for me, and a “short set” for friends to view. It seems ... (1 Comment)
11/19/11
I have an iMac and MacBook Pro and was wondering if i can view my large photo collection, that is on my iMac, on my MacBook Pro when connected to my wi-fi network and when out travelling I don’t have my large collection stored on my MacBook Pro, similar to how I use iTunes ... (2 Comments)
11/18/11
I have read that adobe is scraping mobile flash in favour of html5 does this mean that more webpages currently using flash will work on iPad and iPhone ? thanks simon —– Simon ... (1 Comment)
11/18/11
Just recently i keep getting a pop asking me if I want to allow access to netsession_Mac? What is this and should I remove/disable it? —– George Prado ... (3 Comments)
11/18/11
I would like to remove photos from photo stream folder. —– Pat M ... (5 Comments)
11/17/11
How Can I Copy Audio Tracks With Video From One Project To Paste Into Another? I Can Only Select the Video. iMovie 11. Was having scratchy audio issues along with every move being very slow. Made a duplicate and finished the end of the movie as a separate project. Now I want to ... (2 Comments)
11/17/11
I tried to install Lion on my Mac, but I have 1 GB memory. Can I get more memory, or do I have to buy another Mac? —– Ingeborg ... (3 Comments)
11/16/11
I have a Time Capsule I use for my Wifi and of course, my Time Machine backups. I want to set it up so a Guest can use the wifi access I have to the internet. I have Airport utility version 5.5.3. I recently (today) upgraded to the version 7.6 firmware. When I went to the Airport ... (8 Comments)
11/16/11
Is there a way to make slides in a keynote presentation pan right or left rather than up and down? I would like to make a seemless presentation that pans right and make a video of it. —– John ... (1 Comment)
11/16/11
I frequently hear email notifications on my Mac and iOS devices, only to find nothing new in my inbox. Upon investigation, they are emails automatiCally designated as junk or trash per a rule I set up. Is there a way to not hear the notification sound for junk and trash ... (1 Comment)
11/16/11
I just used the Cards app for the first time. I was successful in completing my order, however, afterwards, I accidentally created a draft duplicate of the same card. I’m not really sure how I did it. More importantly, I don’t how how to remove/delete the draft. Is ... (2 Comments)
11/16/11
I am running lion 10.7.2. Since upgrading, it has taken a bit to get used to some of the features. I do like the versions concept, however, many times when I am working on a spreadsheet for my estimating, as I enter numbers, it begins to lag a lot and i constantly am getting a ... (5 Comments)
11/16/11
My younger brother is using Pages and Keynote on his iPad to do his homework. He’s got iOS 5 and backs it up to iCloud. Now that his iPad is just the standard WiFi version with 16GB he doesn’t always have an opened network around and whenever he opens one of the ... (1 Comment)
11/15/11
There are so many ways now to get photos (jpgs usually) from our computers to distant destinations – – CloudApp, iCloud, Dropbox, countless galleries, “old-fashioned” email attachments, etc. Can any of these methods be singled out as more or less ... (1 Comment)