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.3/2/11
Does anyone out there have any experience with the Mac-Ready Western Digital My Passport external hard drive with the Virtual CD software?
I’m having a load of questions and the owner’s manual answers none of them. Not one. And their support site won’t ... (7 Comments)
3/2/11
I’ve had a sports blueray disk sent to me to edit.
Can i put the blueray disk in my macbook pro and convert it in
mpeg stream clip for editing?
I don’t have a blueray player.
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Peter
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3/1/11
I have recently noticed that the screen brightness is high and when I try to adjust it nothing happens except that when I reduce it to the minimum it goes black. In other words it is either very bright or it goes black. I have checked the settings and they are much the same as ... (1 Comment)
3/1/11
Hi I am a Mac user buying an Imac ‘for the kids’ at Christmas, because of work I have always been a windows user- there I have said it ;).
Back to the point… I have a Synology NAS drive which i have all my photos and music on,I have my ,mac and a couple of ... (3 Comments)
3/1/11
I use iMovie everyday and when I open it up it opens slightly off screen. I always have to click the green button in the upper left corner to maximize the screen. I open several other programs each day and none of them need this done on a daily basis.
Any ideas how to have iMovie ... (1 Comment)
3/1/11
Hi gary I had downloaded the beta version of Facetime from Mac from the Apple Website on the day they launched.
I still use it and at that time it was Free.
Now the Mac Appstore charges 0.99 $ for it.
Is there anything New in the Chargeable Facetime App for MAC?
If not should i ... (1 Comment)
2/28/11
If the rumours are true, then will peripherals such as scanners and printers bought recently (in the last 18 months to 2 years) which run PPC code become obsolete?
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James McEwan
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2/28/11
There’s a website where I had initially had my login and password autofilled so I’d have to simply click login and not type out everything. Something happened in between and I had to reset my password and now it always loads the page blank in the entry spaces. ... (1 Comment)
2/28/11
On this new 17 inch Imac, No DVD plays.
It shows the DVD on the desktop and when I force it to play with DVD player, it shows Not Supported type. I tried many DVDs but the it’s the same result !
Any tips ?
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Cyrus Dubash
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2/28/11
Gary this was very strange. I created a new administrator user profile account on an IMAC 27 inch.
On logging into it I found a Question Mark on the Dock where Safari was originally placed in the other User Profiel. So evern though Safari installed, it does not show up in the new ... (1 Comment)
2/27/11
I now own both an iPhone and iPod Touch and I’ve recently encountered a problem with them.
As I import pictures from each device they simply use file names based upon the “img_xxxx” format. This presents a problem when bringing in newer pictures taken on the ... (2 Comments)
2/27/11
I searched and searched and got lots of nothing!
Is there any possibility, without having to write my own software, to fill, e.g. 4289 empty cells “in one go and with any value” in a “numbers-table” (numbers being the iWork want-to-be equivalent to ... (11 Comments)
2/27/11
I used to rip music dvds so I can listen to and watch them on my iPhone or iPod. How do I put chapter markers in the video so I can skip through songs? Handbrake can do it but it doesn”t do good sound quality. The program I use to rip is great with sound, but can not handle ... (1 Comment)
2/26/11
I’d say I am advanced hobbyist when it comes to video-editing, but plan on doing more advanced things to the point of an independent pro, how much RAM do you think is good? I want enough RAM so that Mac Pro won’t use virtual RAM. I am thinking with 12GB of RAM, 2GB ... (4 Comments)
2/26/11
Was getting beeps and MP was slow to boot, genius thought it was a bad HDD and told me to pull out all HDDs without OS and boot up again. I did, and it booted up normally, so one of the data HDD is bad. I wanted to shut down insert one HDD, then re-boot to see if I got the ... (1 Comment)
2/26/11
I have tried to get this answered on the Apple Discussion but to no avail. Below is what I wrote on Discussions.
Hi all,
I have tried to open several Dashboard Widgets from Apple – Downloads – Dashboard, but each one pings when I try to open it.
I’m not able to ... (4 Comments)
2/26/11
So i am making a video and and I have detached the audio so i can have part of the audio overlapping a silent video clip. In the background during the entire movie, I have a song playing. When the talking part begins, I would like the song to be reduced to like 25%. So I have ... (1 Comment)
2/26/11
Hi all,
My girlfriend and I both have MacBooks and so far, 2 iTunes libraries. We would like to use my Apple TV (1st) for music. My question is how would you set this up taking into account 2 Macbooks with each a separate iTunes lib. Should we make 1 big lib? Let me know what you ... (1 Comment)
2/26/11
I used it on one of my MAC computer and I had major issues.
It deleted some of my system files. After calling them they
said it could not happen. WRONG
When I showed it to an apple tech he assured me that’s what
happened. Since they I stay away from any programs the ...
2/26/11
I have an iMac running Snow Leopard.
I am its only user and put, by default, new applications into my /Applications folder (i.e., in a top-level folder).
However, long, long ago, I noticed that some installer had created a ~/Applications folder (i.e., under my home directory). ... (3 Comments)
