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.2/7/11
While syncing my iPhone 3gs for the podcast: MacMost Now 513: Typing Accent Marks On Your Mac ... (1 Comment)
2/7/11
In imovie 11 movie trailers I have an issue with the audio levels are set too high resulting in sound distortion in play back. Normally I’m able to adjust this when creating a move project but in movie trailers, this seems to be impossible. I’ve looked online and ... (2 Comments)
2/6/11
Hey Gary, I been asking a lot of questions to you lately, but another popped up that I like to ask you. My wife and I have a Photography business and one of the things we do for our clients is make HD Photo Slide shows. When we export the HD Slideshow from Aperture, usually a ... (4 Comments)
2/6/11
Hey Gary as a frequent reader of your site, I would like to pose a question, if I may, to you as to what Apps you enjoy using or use the most in different categories, such as Utilities, Productivity, Finance, Business, Graphics and Design, References, Audio/Video, etc. And how do ... (4 Comments)
2/6/11
Friday afternoon I opted to replace my dying Windows-driven laptop with a new MacBook Pro, which nicely compliments my almost two-year old iMac. But I confess to being confused as to how I might take advantage of Time Machine to keep my new laptop safe and backed up.
I already ... (2 Comments)
2/6/11
Gary my buddy would like me to format a drive he bought that is formatted in NTFS. I have formatted thumbdrives to HFS+ that come FAT32 with Disk Utility but will the mac see that NTFS drive to format as a FAT32?
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Michael
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2/6/11
Anyone recommend an application I can use to to convert my DRM m4p iTunes files to m4a? I know you can do this through burning to CD. I was just looking for a simple drag and drop app. These are my own purchased music files.
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Michael
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2/6/11
Does anyone know how to take a regular horizontal line of text and shape or move it into an arc form in Pages? I am not trying to “wrap” the text but actually bend the text line, so it can look like a rainbow arc around a shape. (Like in a logo for example).
Someone ... (4 Comments)
2/6/11
With Finder, I have customised the folder open settings so that each sub-folder on my internal HD opens in the same window, using the View Options. But when I click on the folders of a cd/dvd that I’ve inserted, the folders open in new windows. How do I keep the same ... (2 Comments)
2/5/11
My inbox in mail includes my sent items as well. Although they do have a dot indicating they are sent and they are in my sent items folder, how do I turn off so they only show in sent items folder.
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Ezell
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2/5/11
I used to run Firefox in a sandbox on my old Windows PC, using a programme called ‘Sandboxie’. This ‘contained’ Firefox and was an additional layer of protection in case of attack / viruses etc. I believe that sandboxing is built into OSX, but don’t ... (1 Comment)
2/5/11
ANy way to get my mac mail inbox to show up in Mobile Me , just like all my subfolders do?
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Craig
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2/5/11
I have my Mac Mail set to remove messages from the server upon downloading to the MAc only (not the iphone ever). Is there anyway to make my MAC Inbox, part of MOBILE ME.
Another words, have my inbox show u on my iphone Mobile Me account?
I have all subfolders with messages in ... (4 Comments)
2/4/11
Hi Gary, today I had the NOT so bright idea to go into finder and change permissions (get info) in Desktop,Home,Documents & Applications.. I changed “everyone” to “none” and “wheeler” or staff to “read or write only. I then restarted ... (3 Comments)
2/4/11
Hello Gary. I am wanting to upload a DVD of my wedding to the cloud so that friends and family can download and burn it on their own DVD. I know I can use “cloud” services like dropbox, but my question has to di with what to upload? Most DVD’s have menus and ... (9 Comments)
2/4/11
I’ve just subscribed to the fixtures calendar for the 6 nations Rugby Tournament in Ical, but the webpage has given it in for the UK time zone. I want all the entires under the subscription to switch to my Timezone so that I don’t have to keep calculating the kick-off ... (4 Comments)
2/4/11
If I can make a request, I would love to see how to set automator to update mobile me nightly to back up certain folders. Interested to see if it can find changes and only transfer that, or will it have to backup the entire folder contents nightly.
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Craig
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2/4/11
I just moved into a new Apt. building and for the first time since owning my my Mac I can see 3 people in the “Shared” column
in finder. Can you please tell me how to block these connection ?
If I can see them, they can see me, and I don`t want ... (3 Comments)
2/3/11
We could really do with some valuable inputs from you regarding the whole Android vs Iphone debate. Do put up a video podcast if you can, but in the meanwhile, are Android phones easy to sync wirelessly with a macbook? My main concern is transferring contacts to and from ... (1 Comment)
2/3/11
Gary, just curious how you transcribe your videos so you have the full text under each video. Is it software, a service you pay for or do you just type them out? Thanks.
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Doug Gilmore
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