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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3/23/11
Gary whenever I record or keep aMONITOR on in Garagband while recording myself sing to an instrumental track, I always feel there is a lag in my voice even though i keep perfect while recording it. Even while normally playing the track to practice and sing while monitor is On, my ... (2 Comments)
3/23/11
I’m new to Mac. I’m living in Belgium and therefore I have a belgian keyboard on my iMac. Unfortunately there is no backslash “\” key on the keyboard, which is quite annoying for some applications. Hopefully I can get it by using the Character Viewer in ... (2 Comments)
3/23/11
Is there a freestyle motion or writing motion animation in Keynote? I want to have text appear and at the same time a pencil move as if it were writing. Any ideas? Thanks! —– Ed Rangel ... (1 Comment)
3/22/11
I have several users on two machines. When all the users are logged out, what controls the screen saver that comes on? On one of my machines I see a screen saver, on the other I don’t. —– Glenn Downing ... (2 Comments)
3/22/11
Whenever I go to print an email or attachment, my Epson Workforce 600 defaults to Landscape orientation. How do I configure my IMAC or printer so that the default is Portrait? (note: I recently downloaded the most current drivers from Epson. There was no ... (2 Comments)
3/22/11
I consistently get a message when in itunes that says “to access this podcast, you need to log in to rss.mac.premiereradio.net” However, I am not subscribed to a podcast from them. How can I get this message to stop appearing? —– matt ... (2 Comments)
3/22/11
How do you make the intro graphic (with the scrolling Apple devices and MacMost logo) at the beginning of each episode? —– Lou Valencia ... (1 Comment)
3/22/11
How do I mail a group of contacts on my iPhone. I have a gmail account and I haves group of contacts on my iPhone as well Asa group named friends in my gmail contacts. Gmail is set usingExchange on my iphone. Still I dont see any of the groups pop upwhen creating a new mail from ... (2 Comments)
3/22/11
is there any way to use Back to my Mac if the Time Capsule does not directly receive the external IP-address? (Double-NAT problem) My ISP distributes internal IP-addresses and I am connected via optical fiber, so there is no way to get my statical, external IP address to my Time ... (3 Comments)
3/21/11
I had a question about programming on a Mac. Obviously, when you program, you can seriously mess up your computer. What safety measures do you recommend that Mac user take when he/she programs? I know the stuff already like, you shouldn’t program on an Administrator account ... (6 Comments)
3/21/11
I was wondering if there was a way to find all my phone numbers in my address book with the iPhone label? —– George ... (2 Comments)
3/21/11
I have a Mac Color Classic that I am desperately trying to get working again, the hard drive finally died after 18 years, but I want to put System 7.5 back on the system. I can’t get my external CD drive to work, I think that’s toast. But I have backup disk images ... (1 Comment)
3/21/11
I have a bunch of files in mkv format and some in avi format. I wish to burn them to a dvd but not as a data dvd… a dvd video format disc where each of the files can be separate menu items to click and play. How do I go about it? I have Toast 10 and ... (1 Comment)
3/21/11
I love ScreenFlow, but am not sure about resizing. If I resize the initial screencast to 1280 X 720 I get a black border. If I export to that size, some images are distorted. —– Fred Miller ... (2 Comments)
3/21/11
Gary I made a software in Microsoft ACCESS and i use the Iphone App – DATA GLASSES for the viewing the Records in it. The app still plays up and sometimes crashes too. It has no Wild card Search of Fields. Only searches if the string of text that is searched for is what it ... (6 Comments)
3/20/11
Does iMovie support annotations in movie clips similar to what is available now with the youtube editor? In other words, is there a way to insert clickable links inside your iMovie that when clicked launch another video? —– Mark ... (1 Comment)
3/19/11
I would like to set up my Home Network so that only my computers can get access to the network. This is done via the Mac Address filtering. In the Airport Express settings, under the Access tab, which setting do I chose: the one with time, or the one called RADIUS? Also, I have ... (3 Comments)
3/18/11
How do I delete a file I created with nano (I saved it using the writeout command)? —– Tommy ... (2 Comments)
3/18/11
Is there any way to recover a deleted partition off of a hard drive? I accidentally deleted a partition and really don’t want to restore from a backup if I can reasonably avoid it. —– Todd A. Peperkorn ... (3 Comments)
3/18/11
Adobe says there is a flaw in flash that could let someone takeover my computer. They also say it won’t be fixed till next week. Should I avoid sites like youtube that use flash until this is fixed? —– Bruce ... (1 Comment)