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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9/14/11
Before I installed Lion I could send pictures from iPhoto with Mail. Now I can still send mail, but not with added pictures from iPhoto. Anyone tell me how to do it? I get the following message: “Mail got error: Can’t make {} into type rich text.” ... (11 Comments)
9/14/11
Over time, I have accumulated quite a few menu items that reside on the right side of my MacBook Pro’s menu bar. However, when I start up certain apps that have quite a few menu items of their own, such as iTunes, some of these items extend to the right far enough to ... (1 Comment)
9/13/11
I have been installing photos to my iphone and i get a message “some of your photos including the photo xxxxx.jpg were not copied to the iphone because they cannot be displayed on your iphone” Has anyone got this message, and is there a way to fix the photos so that ... (4 Comments)
9/13/11
Hi Gary, I have the following questions with Time Capsule. I want to buy a Time Capsule 2 T, however I have doubts if I can use for my PC, ie I use for my Mac and have a space den sites of PC files. Greetings and thanks —– Nelson Da Silva ... (5 Comments)
9/13/11
Hi Gary Nelson writes to you from Venezuela. I have the following questions relating to Mobil Me, my account is not renewed it in view of the rumors i Cloud, however I want concerted if my email address of mobile when you leave me I keep icloud. Greetings and ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
I have a 2011 13″ MBP i7 with the base memory and I was wanting to upgrade to the full 8gb. I definitely do not want to pay the $400 Apple asking price and have been trying to find cheaper memory chips elsewhere (Amazon, Chip Merchant, Crucial, etc). I can’t seem to ... (4 Comments)
9/12/11
There are many web pages that explain how to create a Snow Leopard VM on a MAC running Lion. For non-professionals the articles are too complex. Can you break down the steps for us? System: iMac (2010) running Lion. VMware Fusion 3.1.3 I have the install DVD’s for both SL ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
Hi, I just bought a new video camera (canon hf m40)which is an HD camcoerder. After recording some video and putting it in IMOVIE creating a project sharing it to IDVD tring to burn a DVD It said that it has to much data to create a DVD. I recorded it at 30f/s at MXP (24Mbps) 1 ... (10 Comments)
9/12/11
Will iwork.com still be a service after iCloud comes out, or will iCloud take over the service of iWork.com? Also, if it does, will iCloud do the same functions as iWork.com (e.g. One click upload, easy sharing, etc)? —– matt ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
I’ve inserted 2 pictures from my iPhoto library into the project library timeline in iMovie ’09, but iMovie won’t play or export the images. One of them will show up in preview, but it also shows up for the second image I’ve inserted as well. It’s ... (6 Comments)
9/12/11
how do i get images with a transparent background into imovie? it wont accept .eps —– bill tatar ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
Gary is it possible to create multiple slideshow effects like oragami, scrap book, classic, shatter etc in One slideshow and create that into movie ? I’ve only known that one effect for one slideshow is possible. Just want to know if there is a quick Way of using many. The ... (3 Comments)
9/12/11
I notice sometimes that the screen enlarges. But I don’t know what I am doing to make it happen?? It is something I’d like to use but like I say, I am doing something and I don’t know what? —– Larry Reynolds ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
I just realized that I should have opened a new question instead of using the same heading before.I have watching your videos on different things and notice that you refer to hard drive level and user folders when explaining how to uninstall.Where would I find these please?I ... (3 Comments)
9/12/11
Dear Gary, Many thanks for the great tips and explanations you give. My question is will we still need to back up to Time Macine when we get iCloud? —– Bob Hodgson ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
Hi Gary, I am a professional photographer who uses an express card 34 devise to upload my photos ( from CF card). My ol’ PC would auto upload all of the images once the EXPressCD 34 was inserted. Does my Macbook Pro ( march 2011) have a preference that does this? If not is ... (1 Comment)
9/11/11
Gary, I have been using Mail to receive my gmail and hotmail with no problems. In the last couple of days, hotmail was greyed out on Mail and would not “get mail”. Gmail is fine. I was able to open hotmail with Safari in the usual manner. I checked my ... (3 Comments)
9/11/11
Hi I’m making a sports highlight video and I want to highlight a player at the beginning of each clip. How is this done? —– Perry Wilson ... (1 Comment)
9/11/11
I have a MbP that is giving me fits. It says I have only 80 Gb of space left on a 250 HD but when I run Disk Inventory X it shows only 46 used. Any idea on how to find the missing space? —– Jason ... (7 Comments)
9/11/11
I have been quite annoyed with all the cables floating around in my room. Connecting them, on and off and so forth and it looks quite untidy. I have a black macbook, that I bring with me to school everyday. I was wondering if there are some ideas for this lovely problem, so I ... (3 Comments)