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.8/27/11
I’ve bought a new Imac running Lion and iLife 11 and I wish to bring over some iMovie 09 projects from my old Mac. Can Imovie 11 read the files? I have copied over a file with file type imovieproject but iMovie 11 doesn’t recognise it.
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Zeke Alley
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8/27/11
Hey guys, I am getting ready to dip my toes into Mac-World and purchase a new Mac Mini (which is all that I can reasonably afford, unfortunately) which is $600 (according to the Apple website). Now, unfortunately, they no longer come with an optic drive, so that’ll be ... (7 Comments)
8/27/11
This has just started happening in the last Two weeks. They all look OK in the Finder window,but when i drag them down to the dock they become blurred.
They all look fine in the Dock,apart from when i drag them into the Dock. The application items were, VLC and Coloured ... (5 Comments)
8/26/11
I recently took two pictures with the HDR turned on. each pictures looks like there are two or three pictures stacked on top of one another. i have read that in HDR the camera take several pictures and they appear in duplicate or triplicate on your camera. it appears that ... (1 Comment)
8/26/11
Is there a program for a Mac that can measure the performance of hard drive’s, memory, video cards etc? There are many for windows, can’t find one for a mac.
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Barry Dowell
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8/26/11
I recently downloaded some TV shows on my AppleTV directly. However, they are not showing up on my iMAC iTunes. How do I make sure they show up on both?
In itunes, I went to File/Transfer Purchase from AppleTV but got error message “Check that any firewall software running ... (2 Comments)
8/26/11
Can the iPad camera connection adapter be used to view video and picture files contained on a USB flash drive or a USB connected external hard drive?
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Dion
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8/26/11
I was wondering if someone sent you an e-mail with a video attachment, can that video be downloaded and saved to the iPad?
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Dion
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8/26/11
I’m teaching a class using Keynote. I’m connected to a widescreen monitor, but my presentation is standard, leaving black bars on either side of the display. Is there a way to switch to widescreen presentation without affecting the aspect ratio of graphics within ... (1 Comment)
8/26/11
I recorded a Voice Memo (I am not eure if this is the right English Term)with my iPhone 3G some days ago. Now I try to use it but it seems As there would nö actions Be possible. It is shown with its length in the Memo Overview, but I cm neither Listen to it, shorten it, nor send ... (3 Comments)
8/26/11
Hi, This week my google email stopped on my Iphone. I can look at my account on my PC but the iphone says cannot get mail imap.gmail.comis not responding. verify account settings. Also sometimes it says username or password is incorrect & yet I have not adjusted ... (1 Comment)
8/25/11
Is there a program available (or way) to copy Youtube videos to my Mac legally? Is there a legitimate program that I can buy?
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Mike K
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8/25/11
I would like to create a shortcut key (Z) in Firefox that when pressed I could go back to the previous page.
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Ed J
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8/25/11
I am trying to create a chart in Numbers that will graph my data only if a checkbox for each specific column is checked. This way I can track many different items in the spreadsheet, then compare trends between different data sets in my chart without needing to either create a ... (1 Comment)
8/25/11
My extra monita doesn’t sleep even after I put my Mac book pro to sleep mode after I’ve done my work. This happen after installing new Lion.
I asked Mac support, but they still don’t have the solution.
Please let me know if you have any idea.
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Sai ... (4 Comments)
8/25/11
I’m using Mobileme to sync my iCal on Lion with my iPhone 4. On my Ical I have a calendar called ‘Home’ which is ‘On My Mac;’ I want to sync this as well as a sports fixtures calendar to my iphone, but the iphone is syncing only the Mobileme Calendar ... (1 Comment)
8/25/11
I had several large files on my OSX disk, which I moved to the trash. I emptied the trash as well. I would have thought that this would have freed up the disk space, but it didn’t. My OSX disk is down to 25GB. I searched the disk and found all of the trash files are ... (2 Comments)
8/25/11
I have a MacBook and I’m thinking of buying the MacBook Air. Is there an easy way to move apps (not purchased from the Mac App Store) from one to the other?
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Shirl Parker
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8/25/11
I had 2 80 gig Hard Drives that I tried to turn into a single 160 Gig HD in order to be able to back up my Internal 160 Gig HD. When I made a RAID it ended up as a single 80 Gig HD. How do I either split the RAID back into 2 80 GIg drives or how do I convert the RAID into a 160 ... (1 Comment)
8/25/11
I have quite often noticed that most of the webpages I visit (including “Macmost.com”) when using Safari, have a certain problem with the appearance (size) of the words in headlines or in passages. I have already experimented using “zoom in” or “zoom ... (12 Comments)
