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.5/18/11
I recently watched your podcast on recording audio from another source. I have an mp4 file that is a copy of a video tape. I would like to create an audio file, only, of that video file. Will Soundflower be able to do this for me (redirecting the audio to ... (2 Comments)
5/18/11
I have a ripped video in Audio_TS and VIDEO_TS folders and wish to burnt them to a dvd that will play in a dvd player. Should I just highlight the 2 folders and burn through finder or is there some sort of extra encoding that I need to do. If so, which software would you ... (2 Comments)
5/17/11
Why does my Iphone 4 show lower speed test results than my macbook, for the same wi-fi router? (.17 Mbps vs 2.24 Mbps)
Thank you all.
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GS Murthy
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5/17/11
Is there a shortcut to repeat a command in Numbers?… much like Command+Y in Excel.
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JT
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5/17/11
Hi Gary, I have made a couple of presentations with keynote using music from my itunes but when playing the presentations the music is jumping and fading in and out. The fault is not in itunes as it plays well on its own – just when in keynote I have the problems. If I ... (1 Comment)
5/17/11
Just curious. I got a new MacBook Air (11″), and I can’t figure out where the audio is coming from. Where are those speakers hiding?
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Cameron
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5/17/11
I get a lot of wmv files on email but can’t open them on my iPhone.
What’s the best app for this Gary?
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Cyrus Dubash
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5/17/11
I have a bunch of mkv files that I want to send to a friend on hard copy. Trouble is, most of my friends don’t have mkv support on their video players; so I thought it best to create a dvd from them and send them that and they can view it on comp or tv, whatever.
So just ... (1 Comment)
5/16/11
I downloaded Sound Flower, but when I browsed to its folder and tried to open it, I got this message: “The folder “Soundflower” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.”
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Cameron
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5/16/11
What steps are needed to use checkboxes to add my state’s sales tax for an item sold. I have three columns: “E” (Price), “F” checkboxes and “G” for Total. When a checkbox is checked in a cell in column “F”, used to add my ... (5 Comments)
5/16/11
Not sure why, but for the past several weeks, my Mac is no longer telling me when I am running on reserve battery power. This has always been my cue to plug in, but now I’m being caught off guard and on several occasions have had the battery die in the middle of a project. ... (1 Comment)
5/16/11
A friend has her Office Gmail account setup on her Iphone and her MAC ! She uses Apple mail and alternatively uses Gmail from the website.
But her husband has the very same Office Gmail (Same Email address and password) setup in Microsoft Outlook on his Sony Vaio.
She says that ... (2 Comments)
5/16/11
Sometimes when I get a phone call on my Iphone 4, instead of the usual Answer and Decline buttons, it says ‘Slide To Answer’… why does this happen and how do I decline a call when this pops up?
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Ruth
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5/15/11
I subscribed to a podcast, pressed the get all button and Itunes then downloads all the episodes like I want it to. I then get a duplicate episode entries for most of the episodes showing the same name but it is grayed out and shows the get icon. Why does this keep happening? I ... (1 Comment)
5/15/11
Hi Gary, it seems that in iMovie, the Cross Dissolve transition does not work between pictures sharing a Picture in Picture frame. How can I get around this? Thanks
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Lewis
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5/15/11
I seem to remember a podcast covering this, but I can’t find it. I want to blur over the mouth of an individual using offensive language in a video clip. How is this done?
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Cameron
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5/15/11
I am getting a text message with the following header 676801163614 then a message and the email lic_jdm@hotmail.com. Is this an SMS or an email?
I have gone to the my Verizon website to try and block the # and they keep changing the last 2 digits to 15, 16 etc so I can’t ... (1 Comment)
5/15/11
I keep our church’s iMac signed into my MobileMe account so I can transfer files back and forth from my MBA at home. However, I recently realized that all my iCal calendars were copied onto the iMac. I don’t want people using the iMac to have access to personal ... (14 Comments)
5/14/11
Hey Gary, my wife got scammed into installing that Mac Defender (I wanted to strangle her lol). All she did was download it and installed it on the system. She did not pay or give any CC info. I immediately “nuked and paved the HD and reinstalled OS (I know probably over ... (1 Comment)
