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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4/8/11
What is the standard video size for a 4.3. when exporting a movie to burn. —– Richard24 ... (4 Comments)
4/8/11
In Mac OS X, is there a way to minimize every window at once so that you can get to your desktop without minimizing each window one at a time? Thanks! —– Matt ... (1 Comment)
4/8/11
Gary, a buddy of mine bought an Airport and bought a 1Tb hard drive to connect to it. He ask me about setting up. I told just plug it in and make sure the hard drive was formatted as FAT32 and he should be able to see the hard drive on his windows PC. he can not though. Do you ... (9 Comments)
4/8/11
do you any way (with MacOS programs or with external programs) to record the Mac’s internal audio source (for example putting a DVD inside the slot and play it and record the audio of it in the background)? —– Timo ... (1 Comment)
4/8/11
I’ve learned that Win7 shares files and folders with Mac. I want to uninstall Win7 and Parallels but am afraid I’ll lose files. I use an EHD with TimeMachine for backups. How should I do this? —– Fran Bray ... (1 Comment)
4/7/11
I mentioned that I use Time Machine for my backups. I have thousands of photos of my kids on the computer. What do you recommend as a third level of backup that I can store outside of my home. Should I just buy another hard drive and do a major backup and then store this ... (2 Comments)
4/7/11
I use MobileMe. The email application I use on my iMAC is Entourage. I have organized my inbox into multiple folders. I understand that my email is based on IMAP. How do I ensure that I actually have copies of all of the emails/folders that show up in my Entourage on my desktop. ... (4 Comments)
4/6/11
I have made DVD’s of my kids sports with Imovie and IDVD and want to make more copys w/o using IDVD again. I thought that there was a podcast but I can’t find it. please help. Thanks —– Dale Manning ... (2 Comments)
4/6/11
I added a “Send Mail” button to Safari (via Customize Toolbar). When I click it, it tells me I need to install Mail.app … even though it is installed and works fine. The “send mail” feature in the services menu is working fine, though. Any ... (1 Comment)
4/6/11
I seem to have done something that prevents my Mac from accepting any images, including, for instance, the Google logo. No images appear anywhere–just text. Help, please. —– B. Bahnsen ... (4 Comments)
4/6/11
Is there a way to force the Snow Leopard Address Book to OVERRIDE the entries in Gmail Contacts when syncing through iTunes? —– Glenn Downing ... (6 Comments)
4/6/11
As I have the hell a lot of music I just bought a Buffalo LinkStationDuo 2TB mirrored and I intend to store my iTunes media there. I’ve been checking for days now on the internet and I found especially your Video about moving the iTunes library to an external harddrive very ... (8 Comments)
4/5/11
Hi, I recently bought a Canon VIXIA HFR21 camcorder and want to transfer some of the video files from it to my mac. The camera came with a cd that has a program called “Transfer Utility” that lets you transfer the camcorder files to the computer, but it’s only ... (19 Comments)
4/4/11
How do you type the keyboard shortcut symbols when entering text on pages? i want to type the symbols, shift, control, option,command, tab, etc. —– gary stone ... (5 Comments)
4/4/11
Certainly should set up a WPA2 password for network. Worth it to also hide network? Or use MAC address exclusion? If I do use it, how do I find out MAC address of iPhone? What’s the downside or danger of using MAC exclusion or hiding network. —– Royce ... (1 Comment)
4/3/11
I have double emails in my inbox on my MacBook Pro. When I delete one it deletes both. Can I somehow fix this doubling from happening? —– Mary ... (3 Comments)
4/3/11
Gary, I have an Iphone 4 now and tried to use the camera but the shutter wont open. Rear or front both ! Facetime wont work as a result of that too. Yes I restored it too… In India there is no Iphone 4 support and it has to be taken to Singapore which is the nearest apple ... (3 Comments)
4/2/11
I completed a Keynote presentation. I have video in the Keynote. I exported Keynote to Quicktime (fixed timing) and the entire Keynote was successfully installed in imovie. The video portion doesn’t have sound it appears to be a photo. Is this common? Do you recommend I put ... (1 Comment)
4/2/11
Is anyone getting this message when renting movies from the Apple TV? I seem to get this error when I rent from and ONLY from the Apple TV. However, if I rent form my Mac, I can play the rental from my Mac to Apple TV via iTunes on Mac. Apple charged me twice when I rented a ... (1 Comment)
4/2/11
my dock on my mac os x 10.4.1 is not longer working after i just updated. when i click on about mac nothing happens, i can not open pro tool and other software —– Ms Pam ... (5 Comments)