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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9/2/11
Greetings! The airport express is driving me crazy!! It keeps logging me out over and over. I have to disconnect it and go to network preferences to type my password so i can connect again to the internet. If i don’t disconnect it, it wouldn’t let me connect. Can ... (2 Comments)
9/2/11
hi i have books that i would like to import to the kindle app on my iPhone and i tried manually dragging the books to the app thru the finder, they show up, but fail to sync over to my iPhone. can you help with that? —– mario farias ... (1 Comment)
9/2/11
I recently upgraded to Lion. Now I can no longer see the scrollbar within iPhoto (right-hand side). How do I get this back? —– Pat ... (3 Comments)
9/2/11
Just a short while away from buying my first Mac when one quick question occurred to me as I was archiving my HD… Anyhoo….I’m a bit of a font-freak, and was a bit worried if any of my large collection of fonts might not be compatible with my soon-to-be-new ... (2 Comments)
9/2/11
What is the best way to open and edit PDF file on a MAC? for FREE if possible —– Byron Robinson ... (1 Comment)
9/1/11
I plugged my iphone 4 to my MB 13″ and itunes 10.4 opens. I want to add some pdfs to my iphone by opening the ‘Books’ tab in the Devices menu; when I check the Sync button, a warning window immediately pops up saying that if I sync, all my videos, music and ... (1 Comment)
9/1/11
This is starting to become a regular occurrence on videos on the internet. I just watched a video on your site, thats why i am typing this out. The message is in the middle of the screen,and it says you are wanting to store information on my computer. The 2 options are Deny or ... (2 Comments)
9/1/11
Hey guys, before I submerge my toes into Mac-waters, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how hard drives substantially differ between Macs and PCs, in general (for the functionally computer illiterate). You see, I have never had any problems with my HDs before I bought my ... (1 Comment)
8/31/11
Gary, just wanted to ask you if you or anyone has noticed that since iOS4, that updating and installing Apps has seemed a bit buggy. Such as slow dialog box pop up for password, slow downloads to “begin”and sometimes downloads crashing, also on a few occasions for me, ... (2 Comments)
8/31/11
Is there a power Cord that you can connect from your iPhone 4 to your iPad,laptop ect. To utilize your data plan as a hotspot? —– Bill ... (4 Comments)
8/31/11
When a document is duplicated, does the duplicate copy show up in finder right next to the original? Also, doesn’t iWork save different versions of your current document? are these different versions accessible from the finder, or do you just have to open up the document ... (1 Comment)
8/31/11
A friend of mine asked me this question as she needs to format her computer and got her iPhone backup as well as her parents’ iPhone backups stored on her Vista machine. If I’m not completely wrong those backups are stored under ... (4 Comments)
8/29/11
I have a Mac Pro 2007 with the latest Lion (10.7.1). I also use an Apple bluetooth keyboard with an Apple trackpad attached to it. Plus, I use an Apple Magic Mouse. Ever since I upgraded to Lion I have strange behaviors using the mouse and trackpad. These 2 devices can get along ... (5 Comments)
8/29/11
I am trying to set-up my Airport Express to join my wifi network…in order to use Airplay to listen to my itunes music.. Everything works fine till the network selection….I can not find my wifi network within the list (i can see my neighboors’ ones…) what ... (5 Comments)
8/29/11
I noticed with lion that the preview windows that are naturally opened (e.g. pictures from emails, etc) never actually get closed for good. If preview is running and you do the three finger swipe down to show the current open windows of the app, the windows from previous preview ... (2 Comments)
8/29/11
Basic question…..do I make a simple “backup” with Time Machine after the installation of Lion to my HD? I have new MacBook Pro, June this year using Snow Leopard. My Time Capsule is set up and working fine. I want to install OS X Lion using the USB drive I ... (6 Comments)
8/28/11
I am preparing to sell my Powerbook G4 and am watching your video #553 – Preparing your Mac for resale. When I press c during the restart, my mac crashes and goes into a kernel panic. What do I do about this??? —– Joe Giacalone ... (1 Comment)
8/28/11
I recently noticed that the “Skype” icon exists twice in the Launchpad screen. The only thing that I remember doing recently regarding this app, is downloading & installing the last update. Could this be the reason behind the double icon? Is there any way to fix ... (12 Comments)
8/27/11
Adobe and I are about to divorce. I am not keepign up with their expensive refreshes, lots of security concerns, and their are plenty of great alternate apps for my needs. So how do I safely remove CS3 web premier from my Snow Leopard machine prior to installing ... (1 Comment)
8/27/11
I have been given an iMac with a cracked screen. The old owner tried to swap out the internal drive and it broke when trying to open the case. With the break, you can not see anything on the display, just a flash of light. I have added a vga adapter and hoping to get the machine ... (3 Comments)