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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8/12/11
I follow you every week and I have to confess I made a stupid mistake. I was going on a month vacation and decided I was going to carry with me a 1,5 TB external HDD with all my important files and leave it at the beach house as an external backup procedure. I also have one at ... (2 Comments)
8/11/11
Gary, I am still new to the world of Mac. I switched from years of PC to a MacBook Pro about 9 months ago and love Snow Leopard. Now Lion is here and having lived though Vista I am leery. I have read the reviews, some sound great and some are doom and gloom. My MacBook Pro has a ... (3 Comments)
8/11/11
Keynote, how can I transition between a photo slide and a video clip w/o getting a delay before video plays???? Your tutorials are wonderful and have helped me lots, Thanks —– Michael ... (1 Comment)
8/11/11
If I install Final Cut Pro that is in the Mac App store… How does one uninstall or Remove it.s there a Removal Tool OR would dragging the Application file to the trash, remove it completely ? Will App Cleaner do the needful ? Some Forums carry articles on doing a Clean ... (1 Comment)
8/11/11
I have an iPhone 4. Suppose I add a contact “John Smith.” Now this is someone whom I’ve met once and will interact with fleetingly. More important is the fact that he’s the guy from AAA car insurance. His name doesn’t ring a bell but if I stored it ... (1 Comment)
8/11/11
I want to use a template in Mac mail based on my logo with two columns on the sides and a blank area to write my message. O.k. that’s easy so far. But I want to put links in one of the columns to play a short video file or audio file upon clicking. Ideally I’d like a ... (1 Comment)
8/11/11
At the point of exactly 2:00 Minutes into your Video of File Sharing. I see this screen….http://macmost.com/simple-mac-file-sharing.html I neeed to know what Name and Password do I need to type here. THe Name and password Of My Computer OR the Name and password of the ... (2 Comments)
8/11/11
Gary i am a little confused about the difference between Final Cut Express/Final Studio / Final Pro or Final Cut Studio Pro X Firstly What his the difference between these ? I am fairly good with iMovie and want to start learning Final Cut. But am confused which way to go and ... (6 Comments)
8/10/11
So, after upgrading to Lion, the other night I tried to FAX something from my iMac. When I plug in the Apple external modem, I now receive a error stating : “Unsupported You cannot use an Apple USB modem with this computer.” Is this because of Lion, or something else? ... (6 Comments)
8/10/11
I have a question about the Mac os x lion TextEdit, is it possible to have an auto-capitalization when writing in TextEdit? —– Hattan ... (3 Comments)
8/10/11
Gary how do I Burn an Audio or Mp3 Cd of Purchased iTunes Music ? —– cyrus Dubash ... (1 Comment)
8/10/11
1) Say I add a new entry in my iPhone 4 contact list. When I plug in with iTunes next, will it be auto-copied to Address Book? Conversely, if I add a new entry to my Address Book on my macbook, will it be copied onto my iPhone? Does iPhone dance to Macbook’s tune or vice ... (9 Comments)
8/10/11
thanks for all the great information you share on your site. My question is that I sometimes go on weekend trips…rarely a week or so vacation…What is your rule of thumb about shutting down the computer? I use an iMac but probably would be the same for my wife’s PC ... (1 Comment)
8/10/11
When I attach a pdf to an email it it will not show as an attachment. It seems that this happens only when I add a signature to the email. Windows receivers can see that the email contains an attachment but cannot open it. Mac receivers can access the file from the preview, but ... (4 Comments)
8/10/11
I’ve copied Hi8 movie footage onto my mac via Elgato capture. It saves it as .mp4. I want to edit it a bit in imovie to take out duff stuff then burn it to a dvd. What’s the best format to save the imovie project in? .mov, protected mpg4 (which is twic etge size) or ... (1 Comment)
8/9/11
I was staying over at a friends house, and the guy took a bunch of and my thesis and encrypt it. He doesn’t remember the password, he did not put it in the key chain. is there any way i can get it back? —– Jaime ... (4 Comments)
8/9/11
I am interested in finding out if it is possible and how to screen share two iPads? —– Clinton ... (1 Comment)
8/9/11
Hi Garry, I installed Lion on my Mac Book pro, latest version I have is:Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A511) I haven’t received any updates, is this correct. Thank you very much for you help! —– Robert ... (2 Comments)
8/9/11
GAry, I have a frien’s iPhone 4 which I offered to update to the latest firmware. Surprisingly there is no BACKUP option and no backup even takes place when I connect it to my iTunes. (iTunes is Updated to 10.3) There are just 2 options 1. Set as NEw Phone or Restore from ... (2 Comments)
8/8/11
I just did a full restore on my New MacBook Air. I forgot about iLife 11, and now I can’t find out how to re-install it? I’m not worried because I own an iLife disk for my Mac Mini, but as part of the restore process, I would like to know what I missed where iLife ... (2 Comments)