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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10/7/11
I’ve read lots of comments about this MacKeeper on the Apple Communities forums, mostly derogatory. I keep seeing ‘Clean up your Mac’ buttons all over the Internet! Do you have any experience of/with this faciity? Is it bona fide – or a scam? That’s ... (2 Comments)
10/7/11
First of all thanks for the Newsletter #153. It is indeed a very big loss to us MAC users! Anyway getting to the point – I’ve shot a lot of short films on my Sony HDR CX110 & i use imovie to edit them. I just cant seem to get that HD look in my final video. ... (2 Comments)
10/6/11
Gary, I wonder if you have an opinion or advice about how to do backups for two different Macs. I have a MBP and use a Time Capsule for backups. I am considering an additional MBP or perhaps an iMac or Mac Mini as a second device in my home. I do not typically use the MBP ... (1 Comment)
10/6/11
I am new to numbers (IW9) I would like to have two or more columns, although two could do for the time being. One will show income and the other debit. The income will generate more rows. What I wish to do is have the credit total reflect the income as each transaction is made. ... (2 Comments)
10/6/11
Gary has the problem of merging Multiple apple ids for iCloud been resolved? Not much has been found on the net regarding this except a while back that apple was considering merging them. Also if I have one indian store Id and one US store Id, will I be able to merge both ... (1 Comment)
10/6/11
I have a clip in i movie11 with a Kens Burn effect at the end of that clip i want to freeze the last frame so i can fade up to another identical frame with a photo shop effect. I tried the tip that someone mention in iMovie 9 but nothing comes up saying add freeze ... (1 Comment)
10/6/11
When I command click to open a new link sometimes it will open in a new tab and view it and other times it will open the new tab but stay in the current tab/view. Conversely the shift/command click will have the opposite effect. Is this a “Feature” of Safari 5.1? Or ... (1 Comment)
10/6/11
I am new to Macs and bought an iMac in June. I installed Lion in July. Since I installed Lion I am unable to open any files, photos etc. by double-clicking. In fact, nothing that previously opened with a double-click opens that way now, I have to do it the long way round. I can ... (2 Comments)
10/6/11
I have a few questions about the new iPhone4S: 1. Will it operate on Sprint’s CDMA network? A source told me the phone won’t work on Sprint’s CDMA network, instead it will work off Sprint’s Wi-Max network. That seemed kind of odd, but he was pretty sure ... (4 Comments)
10/6/11
Many internet articles state to use journaling on external hard drives used for system cloning or backups but don’t use journaling for external media drives (loss of performance with large video files). Other articles claim loss of performance on media drives used to be a ... (2 Comments)
10/5/11
hi Gary, in snow leapord I was able to download a flv video to save on my computer for later watching, I was able to right click it, and click open with- quick time player,then I was able to save it (file, save as ) a quicktime movie. In lion that disappeared, I only see ... (5 Comments)
10/5/11
We’ve been getting this error message quite a lot lately while trying to access movies on our Mac Mini. We’ve done some homework and found some temp fixes (holding down arrow and menu to reset the ATV) that worked once. Recently while experiencing the problem, I tried ... (1 Comment)
10/5/11
Will Siri be available on iPhone 4 or just the 4s ? Thanks simon —– Simon Yates ... (1 Comment)
10/5/11
Hi I wonder if it’s possible to change the angle of the side by side video in iMovies. like how apple WWC presentation usually are —– Hashim ... (1 Comment)
10/4/11
It will not show up on macbook pro 13 inch —– macDaddy8909 ... (6 Comments)
10/4/11
Hi Gary – I’m trying to steam photos in iPhoto to the Apple TV and it will not recognize all photos in that application. The only ones it sees is the pictures that were imported awhile ago and not the current ones from the phone or recently imported. Any ... (2 Comments)
10/3/11
I just upgraded from Leopard on my 2006 iBook to Lion on my newly purchased MacBook Pro. I noticed that there’s a slider button on the bottom right corner of Finder windows. The slider adjusts the size of icons in the window SOMETIMES, but most of the time it does nothing. ... (3 Comments)
10/3/11
Thank you for your excellent website and tutorials. I have recently encrypted my hard drive with time machine and now the start up screen when i log in looks different and the Mac now takes longer to boot up. Is this normal from your experience? —– Luis do Nascimento ... (2 Comments)
10/2/11
In iMovie, can you convert multiple clips from the same video at the same time or at least un-attended? —– EBCmedia ... (7 Comments)
10/1/11
We’ve rented DVD movies from a very prominent mail service with no problems for some time. The last DVD wouldn’t display for some reason on our TV so I inserted it in my MacBook Pro (latest Lion OS) and the DVD player wouldn’t play it either. I got a window ... (1 Comment)