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.7/27/11
I have bought books on Photoshop. I want a book for a beginner for the iMac Snow Leopard version 10.6.8 I am self teaching myself and a book to show you all the basics on the iMac. Its your site, you cover topics even i can understand. Could you tell me where i can buy this ... (5 Comments)
7/27/11
Is there somewhere to go to find out exactly which programs are incompatible with Lion? I’ve been reading comments at the AppStore (for the Lion upgrade) and people are complaining a lot about several programs not working (like MS Office and Quicken). These incompatibilities ... (1 Comment)
7/27/11
I “upgraded” to Lion a few days ag and do NOT like it at all……. Not keen on all the gesture crap and launch pad and mission control I can frankly do without, they’re just different ways of doing things that were already there…..anyway I’m having ... (11 Comments)
7/27/11
Under all previous versions of Mail, the Dock icon would show the total number of unread messages in all my accounts.
Under Lion, the Dock icon is showing the unread count only for my Mac.com email address (which happens to be the first account in the account list). When other ... (9 Comments)
7/27/11
I use Time Machine a little differently than the default. I backup to a Time Capsule to which I connect via wifi, not Ethernet. Due to the many other redundant backups I use, I don’t have Time Machine set to automatically back up every hour. Instead, I just manually ... (6 Comments)
7/27/11
Upgraded to Lion. My Gmail inbox, one of many inboxes, shows I have one unread message and 42 messages in the trash. Both the Gmail inbox and trash are empty. Where are those pesky messages. Hmmm… Went to Gmail.com and cleaned everything out – new, sent, spam, ... (2 Comments)
7/27/11
Since I upgrade to LION, the MAIL application does duplicate all me emails in “inbox” and “sent”. I also have tried to enable the option in settings: “remove copy from server after retrieving a message”, but no help. Thank you for your ... (12 Comments)
7/26/11
Gary, in Lion my iMac does not automatically connect to my WIFI network !
The Wifi bars remain Grey and it connects only when I click the Wifi Bars and choose my Wifi Network Name.
Earlier it would connect automatically !
I tired checking and unchecking the “Ask to join ... (19 Comments)
7/26/11
The three-finger swipe to invoke Mission Control is great. I believe what I’m supposed to be seeing is a layout of the open windows on my current desktop lying clearly below the miniatures of the Dashboard and the four desktops I’m working with across the top. This ... (1 Comment)
7/26/11
I downloaded Lion the day it came out and now I cannot find my files in iWork’s.They cannot even be found on my backup storage.
Any ideas these are business accounts.
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Melinda
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7/26/11
I know I must be missing something so please bear with me if it seems I am a bit thick!! I recently changed from a £10 throwaway Vodafone mobile which I’d had for a year and in which I was able to create text groups, i.e. I was able to list people from my contacts list ... (7 Comments)
7/26/11
With my old laptop, I made a big mistake. I plugged in my iphone and my itunes opened. I hit restore and lost everything on my iphone (business/personal contacts from the last year, ugh, nightmare) So I bought and Imac so i could backup all my contacts from my iphone. Now ... (1 Comment)
7/26/11
For some reason, when I open Safari, it takes me to the last site I visited. Want to start to a default site. Used to do that, but now does not. In preferences? Help…just annoying…thanks, as always…
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rick
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7/25/11
I want to enable: “Open iPhoto when I connect my iPad”, instead of Aperture. Where? How?
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Javi
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7/25/11
In iMovie 11 I have beat markers, and have added photos and effects on my Slide Show.
Now I want to add a new beat marker. How can I get the photos to adjust themselves without reimporting them all?
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Adam
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7/25/11
I had an issue with the iMac which required me to format and reinstall. I had Time Machine to back up everything. The simple rebuild from T.M. option wouldn’t work because it sad my drive wasn’t big enough, so I had to install clean and then migrate assistant my way ... (2 Comments)
7/25/11
Can we disable Auto resume in safari. Sometimes I wouldn’t like safari to display my last visited website in the scenario where there could be another user who is using my iMac.
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Cyrus Dubash
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7/25/11
Gary I’ve noticed that holding the iPhone in landscape orientation with the Hone button to the left of the user, is better in terms of wifi and 3G signal strength. Speed slows down when I hold it in landscape orientation with the home button to the Right of the user.
Any ... (1 Comment)
7/25/11
I have two MB Pros and they were both “update” by Apple in the last week. After the updates, the background color for loggin into Ebay and Facebook are yellow on both computers. The background color for these logins used to be white. Is there any way I can change the ... (4 Comments)
7/25/11
Gary, can you do a podcast on how to deal with Lion and mulitple Mac ID’s? There is a slurry of information out there, but it is confusing. I don’t know the best direction to take on this.
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Ian
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