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.2/22/11
Does Groove matching in Garageband only work if a real instrument is played?
I have a drum track on track 1 and on track 2 I used the built ion Guitar track and deliberately Placed it out of time.
Then i made the Drum track the Groove track, but it did not snap the timing ... (1 Comment)
2/22/11
I have just found the new screen recorder on Quicktime. I have found a solution to the audio which doesn’t record. Soundflower enables audio to add to video capture of the screen. However, it’s time consuming and has to be changed back to original settings after the ... (1 Comment)
2/22/11
I use my mac book pro every day in work and at university. But i sometimes have problems with some pdf files.
some scripts from my teachers contain formulas and equations and some of them are not shown correctly. either some of the signs (like greek letters for eyample) are shown ... (3 Comments)
2/21/11
I want to start with movies recorded by me on dvd and end up with iTunes compatible files of the highest possible quality using Handbrake. How do I set that up? Is there a simpler alternative to Handbrake?
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Kirk Aplin
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2/21/11
After 2 years my Track Pad on my MBP feels and sounds like I`m clicking a rock. Is there any way to soften it`s pressure ?
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Marcus
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2/21/11
Hi, I want to start using Mail but I want to receive emails from my gmail account, however, when I create the account in Mail it is importing ALL old emails I have in my gmail account (more than 5000). I just would like to receive the new emails from gmail, like “from now ... (1 Comment)
2/21/11
i send most of my pictures via email when looking at them in them in preview. i use the right click option to get “open w/” and then it shows a drop down menu. how can i add MAIL to this list so i don’t have to go to ‘other’ every time?
also, while ... (1 Comment)
2/21/11
I have 2 unrelated questions.
Firstly (I’m a spreadsheet duh, so pardon the silly question) I have a column A which is a cost, B which is the advance paid and C which is balance due…the difference between A and B. When I click on a cell in C and type ... (1 Comment)
2/20/11
I have a query about Keychain – is there a way of transferring all the website passwords that are saved in the login keychain and transferring them to a fresh keychain with its own new password? Just to boost security for whatever it’s worth… in case someone ... (5 Comments)
2/20/11
A recent newsletter gave instructions for extracting photos from movie clips in iPhoto. When I tried it, I couldn’t stop at a single frame in iPhoto. It always opened Quicktime, from which I couldn’t extract a frame. The directions imply that there’s a way to ... (3 Comments)
2/20/11
For some reason it is not possible to get iCall synchronized with MobileMe and vise verca. Working with version Mac OS X 10.5.8
Help or suggestions is more than welcome.
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Jan De Decker
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2/19/11
I’m on the last day of an iTunes movie rental and quickly discovered it doesn’t have closed captions. The sound through the built in speaker just isn’t enough for me to make any sense of what is being said, though the audio is as it should be in terms of volume ... (8 Comments)
2/19/11
Hi gary, do you have any podcasts on how and when to use Color Sync utility? Or where I can read up on it? Apparently I can get it to replicate colors more accurately on my printer?
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Dhruv
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2/18/11
When I first purchased my Mac pro I set up my WIFI and found for the first 4-5 months every was fine. Then for no reason, I keep randomly losing the connection. I run Assist me within network, network diagnostics and found the ISP, internet & server indicator go from green to ... (3 Comments)
2/18/11
After watching Gary’s current video on syncing files with iDisk I would like to know if you can just sync specific files or do you have to sync all of your user files?
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Jim
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2/18/11
Gary can we make copies of vcds with toast titanium ?
If not any other way it can be done ?
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Cyrus
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2/17/11
Hi, Garry. For the last month I have a problem with my Superdrive when I trying to burn (videos). The error says: (0x8002006E) and then it stops burning. I have tried to find information on google but I see that this problem is verryyyyy…common, but no one really knows how ... (2 Comments)
2/17/11
I don’t know what changed but i use to be able to take my avchd card and plug it into my apple pro laptop and import it into imovie or FCE.
In imovie the files dont lite up and in FCE it says i have the wrong kind of file.
I’ve used this on 30 projects and now it ... (1 Comment)
2/17/11
I tried looking around your videos, but didn’t see this question answered. My apologies if I missed it (and just direct me towards it).
I have an iPhone 3GS loaded with apps, both free and paid. I just purchased an iPod Touch and I’ve like to add my iPhone apps to ... (2 Comments)
2/17/11
I am trying to use a video from a Flip video camera in IWEB. It works fine until the website is published. Once published the video isn’t there. In it’s place, is a Quicktime logo with a question mark. Any thoughts on how to get this to work. I’ve used ... (2 Comments)
