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.12/20/10
I just got a Slingbox remote device for accessing the DISH Network on my Mac, iPad, or PC. When I try to access on my Mac, I get the following message:
“Safari needs to be set to 32-bit mode to watch TV on a Mac running Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).”
How do I put ... (3 Comments)
12/19/10
I notice when I add an address to my Address Book and save the name as say Kathy for the first name, when I want to email that person the name then comes up as Kathy Kathy in Apple Mail.
When I go back to edit to the correct name and save changes it does it again. Sometimes I ... (4 Comments)
12/18/10
I used 1Password to generate an answer to a security question (e.g. What’s your favorite color?), pasted it in the security question field. I thought I still had it in the clipboard, but when I went to paste the generated password to make a note of it . . . nothing!
Is ... (2 Comments)
12/18/10
Question 1: What do I need (using Snow Leopard) to transfer VHS material to DVD?
Question 2: What do I need to selectively transfer *some, but not all* DVD music videos to an iPod?
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John Russell
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12/18/10
I have a June 2010 17″ 2.66 i7 UMBP which has a 500GB internal HD. I recently purchased an external HD of the same capacity so I could keep a full back up of all my data.
The internal HD shows capacity of 499.76GB with 160.24GB free. After connecting the external HD to the ... (1 Comment)
12/18/10
1. Does Keynote use a reference folder for all the media files, like Powerpoint does? In other words, can I delete the original music and video files once I’ve saved my Keynote?
2. I keep using the Format-Font-Capitalization-All Caps funtion a lot to update some older ... (1 Comment)
12/17/10
Has anyone had any experience with a third party app called Printopia? I have a Macbook are and was interested if this works with laptops along with the Ipad and Itouch. Any help or ideas would be greatly appriciated. Thanks and Happy Holidays. Milan
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Milan
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12/16/10
How can I put one of your pod casts onto a flash drive to use at a Mac club meeting as a teaching tool?
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John Gorman
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12/16/10
I think this is a great site, but I cannot seem to access the videos from my new Mac. Instead of the video, there is a message that reads, “missing plug-in.” What plug-in am I missing?
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Ralph T. Soule
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12/15/10
I have set up some folders on my iPad. Every time I try to move an app to a folder that is on a different page, it won’t move. How can I get this done?
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Kathy Scott
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12/15/10
Hi Gary,since adding Gmail to my mail application on my macbook pro, i have the gmail mailbox in my inbox but I also have another Gmail mailbox below which gets frustrating to have since every time i get a new email into my gmail account, it appears both in the inbox and in ... (6 Comments)
12/14/10
We will be going on a trip soon and taking Iphone 4.
Two questions:
1) If we rent some movies from Itunes prior to our trip, can we watch them in the plane on iphone (on Airplane mode). Or do you need to be able to connect to the Internet via Itunes? Do the rented movies actually ... (2 Comments)
12/14/10
I took a screen capture using shift command 4. I also did it again using shift control command 4. It took the image but I don’t know were it saved it. From my understanding it was suppose to save it to a clipboard, but I don’t know where this clipboard is. I was ... (1 Comment)
12/14/10
I have a rather large amount of media in iTunes (i just had to upgrade to a 1TB HD for my media center, but can’t and don’t want to put anything other than the music on my PowerBook. Is there anyway I can transfer just the music to the PB WITHOUT losing all the tags ... (8 Comments)
12/14/10
It seems that when I export an iMovie project to itunes it is producing two copies:
The first one under my user name>movies>imovies>itunes
The second one under my user name>music.itunes/itunesmusic/movies
This this a duplication and if so how would I prevent it as I ... (1 Comment)
12/14/10
I got hooked on these story games on the ipad until I realized they were more demanding than my partner and tried to kill them.
You can open the multiprocess bar and kill the game by holding the icon for five seconds, then hitting the red minus button on the icon. I discovered a ... (3 Comments)
12/14/10
I’m wondering if there’s a way to password protect a document in Pages. I want to create a document that can only be accessed by me. I don’t want to password protect the entire computer when logging in.
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Vicky
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12/14/10
There are dozens of videos and apps all claiming to enable emoji on the ipad, none coming close to the Iphones solution, clumsy as it may be. At least its functional. There are guides indicating that enabling the standard Japanese keyboard on the ipad and then typing the keyword ... (2 Comments)
12/14/10
I wondered if anyone can help. My company has a superb product for the NHS (UK at the moment but would work anywhere in the world) and I am looking to talk to someone in the Apple organisation about their strategic marketing to the NHS as this would certainly open up huge ... (1 Comment)
12/13/10
Gary any ideas how can iMovie make intro for video or any other software. Do you have any videos on making intros for videos?
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Richard24
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