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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10/19/11
I updated iPhone 4 to iOS 5. Since then I have not been able to connect to my home wifi. It lists the network, I select it, it asks for the password and then says the password is wrong; which is not possible, it has not changed. Other devices in the house are working ... (2 Comments)
10/19/11
I see people all the time with different fonts for their iPhones that arent on mine. I was just wondering, how can i get different fonts on my iPhone? —– Holly ... (1 Comment)
10/19/11
I have iCloud turned on for my system. My “System” consist of: an iMac desktop, iPad2 and iPhone 4. I have iCloud configured to sync across all devices for Mail, Calendar, Contacts etc. Here is my question. When I look at Contacts on the desktop it shows duplicates. ... (3 Comments)
10/19/11
My folders, including the one with all my books, have disappeared when I upgraded to iOS 5. I need them back. How can I restore them to my iPad? —– Kathy Scott ... (9 Comments)
10/19/11
Just got my very first iPhone (the 4S), so I’m new to all this. Was wondering if you could recommend some great accessories, or do you have a video already on this subject? —– Cameron ... (1 Comment)
10/19/11
Hi Gary, for some reason when I reply to emails it has started to add several other email addresses in “Cc” automatiCally. How can I stop this ? —– Jeff ... (3 Comments)
10/19/11
My iPad 2 keyboard has just recently sifted from being out of the way at the bottom like normal to now being halfway up the screen. It annoying since most times it’s covering the areas I want to type in. How can I fix this? Cheers. —– Eli ... (22 Comments)
10/19/11
I used to have SyncMate installed on my Mac to sync with an old smartphone I used to have. After I got rid of the phone, I deleted SyncMate, or at least I thought I did. I was just over on the Guest account of my MacBook Air when SyncMate popped up telling me it was time to sync. ... (1 Comment)
10/19/11
Hi Gary – I have lost all my contacts – it happened when I migrated to iCloud. This is not critiCal to me, but it would be nice to get them back. Would they be on a Time Machine backup somewhere? I just went into a September backup and couldn’t see them. Any ... (4 Comments)
10/19/11
I bought logic studio to go along with my Final Cut X I have 9 cds in the bundle and was wondering the best way to install this product. Can i install this product on a external hardrive or does it all need to go on my internal HD? This will take a lot of space on my new MacBook ... (2 Comments)
10/19/11
First of all I wold like apologies if my english grammar is not the best, my native language is not english. My question is… Can I after doing a clean install of OS X, reinstall the specific applications I want from a time Machine backup. Our do I have to reinstall entire ... (5 Comments)
10/19/11
I was watching the video about the iMac resume function in Lion, but for some reason it doesn’t seem to work on my Mac. I do have the “Restore windows when quitting & re-opening apps” ticked, but the only time it seems to do anything remotely like this is ... (1 Comment)
10/19/11
Mail on my iPhone (3G, iOS4.2.1 being the latest supported version) and iPad2 (iOS 5 plus preceding iOS versions on this device) often deletes the contents of the Trash as soon as it is opened. The behavior is apparently random (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t). If ... (4 Comments)
10/19/11
The remote for my boys’ Apple TV finally died. I went to order a replacement, but there is a new remote in its place. Will this still work with the first generation Apple TV? —– Cameron ... (1 Comment)
10/19/11
2 questions. Can anyone help pleasee I’m using a pop-up menu option (Inspector>Cells>Cell Format>Pop-up Menu) to have preset selectable descriptions for different items. The descriptions are several lines long, like a paragraph, but the Pop-up Menu feature only ... (1 Comment)
10/19/11
Hi Gary, you can configure different libraries of photographs to be used by iPhoto, for example, a Time Capsule and the other on the hard disk of your Mac. We appreciate your help Thanks —– nelson da silva ... (1 Comment)
10/19/11
Hi Gary, first thank you very much for your help. I have a few questions to share with you. 1) In Finder, I can see through the photos that were imported into iPhoto? and 2) As I can read directly from my iPhone / iPad a document that is stored on the Time ... (2 Comments)
10/18/11
My spouse and I both have iPhones (with iOS 5) and share Apple iTunes and iCloud IDs and use iCloud’s shared Address Book and Calendar. We do have different e-mail addresses. I have been unable to set up Find My Friend in this configuration. If there a way to configure ... (8 Comments)
10/18/11
Hi Gary. I know that the question of weather or not you choose to protect your device with a case and/or screen protector is a very personal thing. I have owned many Apple devices and have chosen to protect them all in the past. But recently, I got rid of my iPhone 4 and iPod ... (1 Comment)
10/18/11
Under photo’s app I have my albums they are the ones i have synked in i tunes to my computer. It seems to copy all of the photo’s and addes them under Photo Library a second time, so i now have double photo’s. I want to have my photo’s under different ... (1 Comment)