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.4/22/11
I watched the video posted in you tube regarding the same topic but it is unclear and apparently skips steps. I am trying to access my external hard drive which is hooked up to my airport extreme. Not really clear about how to assign ip address to harddrive or which port to use. ... (1 Comment)
4/22/11
someone mentioned that I might have something called “bitrot” on my imac (my imac is not even a year old). How do I get rid of this?
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Pat
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4/22/11
I would like to use my iPad to track my medical records. Is there a way to automatically sync, and store, these records from my iMac to the ipad? One that does not rely on a wifi connection.
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Robert Poland
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4/22/11
I have a new keyboard and it doesn’t seem to have a universal function key for play/pause in iTunes. How do I set one? Like F8 or F15 or whatever.
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Todd A. Peperkorn
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4/22/11
I’ve just got an Iphone 4. My old phone’s a Nokia E75. I need to sync my contacts to the Iphone somehow but the Nokia PC Suite doesn’t work on my macbook. I can’t figure out how to transfer directly since my Iphone isn’t reading the Nokia via ... (4 Comments)
4/21/11
Gary i reda this shocking article. Wanted your views on it.
Please do read it and comment on it.
Thanks so much.
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cyrus
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4/21/11
I want to use an addition display for CAD drawings in addition to using the regular display for word processing and such. I would like to run them simultaneously. How do I do that? the book on Leopard OS does not cover it.
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Ken Buchner
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4/21/11
Need your help again…Do you know any efficient way to compose and save a document using the iPad 2?
Thank you!
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Jania
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4/21/11
I bought a new iMac in August of last year, but I have noticed that there appear to be some screen burn in, I.E. it has some ghost text on the upper left hand side of the monitor, since I am out of my three months covered by Apple for AppleCare I was going to wait and get some ... (2 Comments)
4/20/11
i have an iTunes Library of ofer 750gig and perioidicly i back it up to disc using the iTunes function. I usually use dvd r dl 8.5gb to do this but i got curious looking at my two boxes of over 100 discs and to my disgust the last 20 or so discs only had about 50mb each on them. ... (3 Comments)
4/20/11
Dear Gary
Have you got any idea about how bad is for a Mac to abruptly stop operating because of a power failure, instead of a normal shut-down? Is just one or multiple incidents enough to cause these harmful effects (if any)?
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Jim
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4/20/11
How do I add excel files to my iPad? New to iPad.
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Bob Doyle
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4/20/11
Hi Gary
How can I record a phone conversation on a iPhone 4/iOS 4.3
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paulie3660
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4/20/11
I am a 3 year old Mac convert, and would like to know the equivalent option for the “Shift end or Shift home” home keys which is used to highlight text from a position to the end.
I cannot seem to find an equivalent.
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femiguard-meebo@yahoo.co.uk
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4/20/11
I’ve been sharing a room for some months where hairspray and spray perfumes are used. I’ve moved to a new place but my laptop is filling the whole apartment with very strong,acrid, perfumish/chemicalish odour of hot hairspray. Leaving it to burn off has not reduced ... (1 Comment)
4/20/11
I am using a Macbook Pro 13″ (Early 2011) model, and am new to Mac. I’m wondering what’s the best way to use my Macbook, as i use it as a desktop computer at home, and also use it for school.
I’ve had it for around 2weeks and it’s on 14 cycles. This ... (33 Comments)
4/20/11
Administrative Professionals Day is upon us, and I’d like to get my secretary an iPad, but am on a tight budget, so I’m thinking 1st generation 16GB Wifi. I don’t want used, but new or refurbished would be okay. I need to have it by the weekend. Can anyone ... (1 Comment)
4/19/11
I have a MB Pro and just got the facetime app. We just got an ipad2 and also have the facetime app. I personally have an apple ID for itunes and the app store, but my wife does not. Do we need separate ID’s to facetime each other on our devices? if so how does she get her ... (4 Comments)
4/19/11
I currently use MobileMe but do not use the sync function that much between calendars. I can’t really justify paying the subscription fee moving forward. Is there a way to transfer my mobileme emails over to gmail?
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Pat
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4/19/11
I have a 2.65Ghz 17″ Titanium Laptop with a Hitachi 160GB 5400RPM 8MB Buffer SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive that recently went bad. I would like to replace it and possible upgrade the drive but I am not sure what drives are compatible with my Laptop and I don’t want to ... (1 Comment)
