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.11/20/10
So after installing Safari 5.0.3 (most recent update) my Mac restarts like it’s supposed to, but the menu bar didn’t load all the menu bar apps/icons e.g. clock, WiFi signal indicator. Some icons like for Caffeine were barely visible (could just make the out), and ... (1 Comment)
11/20/10
I have burned DVDs (old VHS tapes converted to DVDs) with Handbrake to iMac. How can I use them in iMovie? Cannot delete segments of the DVD within iMovie without deleting the whole burned DVD material.
Want to make a montage with the old video and photos but think the old ... (3 Comments)
11/19/10
I’m trying to write a formula in a cell in one sheet but I also want it to write the formula in the same cell in another sheet – using the other cells within THAT sheet within the formula rather than the one I am working on. I think it is called “drilling ... (1 Comment)
11/18/10
By having a extra monitor hooked up to my iMac i7 what are the effects will it cause. Any slowdown or does it take away from any think on my iMac. Or will it cause any harm.
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Imacer99
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11/18/10
Hi! Do i need to have a copy of “clean my mac” for my mac book pro?
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Claude
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11/18/10
I need to express a value in numbers that uses a letter as well as a digit(a school report) example English 6a math 5c art 5b ect and then make a chart from the data.i cant find a way for numbers to recognise that “a” is a higher value than “b” and adjust ... (6 Comments)
11/17/10
I’d sent off an email from my mobile phone (Nokia, not Iphone) yesterday. Today when I look at the Sent folder in my Mail, it doesn’t list the mail I’d sent off. I checked my gmail account by logging in through Safari and it’s showing there.
Even clicking ... (1 Comment)
11/17/10
I am running the latest version of Safari on my MacBook and just the other day Flash player quit working properly. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Flash on my computer, but when I go to a website such as Youtube it only plays the audio with no video. Even more compelling is ... (8 Comments)
11/17/10
Does anybody out there know of a way to change the location of the text (metadata, including captions and titles), in slideshows? Must the text always appear over the photograph?
We have around 30,000 photos to build into slideshows, so the text can not be added one slide at a ... (1 Comment)
11/17/10
I have a 50 page scan that I accidentally put in the copier backwards. Is there a way to reverse the ordering of the pages, so that page 50 is page one, 49 is 2, etc?
I know I can do it manually by drag and drop, but this is a common enough problem that I figure someone must ... (2 Comments)
11/16/10
Never installed Entourage with Office 2008 because I heard it was bad and satisfied with iCal, Mail, and Address Book. Reading reviews that the new Outlook is really good, What’s your opinion, better than iCal, Mail and Address Book?
Will Outlook work with MobileMe sync? ... (13 Comments)
11/16/10
Has anybody tried an external GPS device on his iPad such as:
http://bad-elf.com/products/gps/
I’m assuming that will work with a non 3G iPad.
How well does it work?
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Howard Brazee
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11/15/10
I was thinking about buying disk warrior for my iMac i7. Than I thought about their is disk utilities on the startup disk, that does disk repair and repair permissions. What should I do.
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Imacer99
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11/15/10
I have a HDMI cable from my iMac to my Samsung LED TV UE32B6000. I also use a convertor: Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter (With Digital Audio).I can see movies on my TV, but the sound is still on my iMac. If I introduce the audio jack in the headphones orifice, I cannot hear ... (2 Comments)
11/15/10
I don’t know why the cursor goes to the bottom of my homepage when I click on Safari. Is there a way to keep the cursor at the top of the homepage? Thanks.
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Mary
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11/15/10
Love your podcasts. Do you think you’ll ever do one regarding the Elgato products? Thanks.
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Spence
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11/15/10
The MacMost videos relating to GarageBand have been very helpful.
But I’m wondering if there is a bigger and more comprehensive source to help me better understand how to use and create loops for my iMovie projects.
It’s not clear to me why some loops are defined in ... (3 Comments)
11/14/10
My 13-inch Macbook was stolen about 2 weeks ago, along with all of my photos, videos and pictures on it. Luckily, I do have an external hard drive that I had been using to back it up. However, since I was still using Tiger OS at the time of the burglary, none of the backups ... (2 Comments)
11/12/10
I’d like to delete some books off my computer, but back them up on an external hard drive for future use. Is there a way to do this so that I can have the option to order them in the future through Apple? Is it just a matter of saving it as a PDF, and if so, how would one ... (3 Comments)
11/12/10
I’ve tried saving some a couple different books as pdf’s and the following error pops up in Adobe…
“There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.”
What does this mean?
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Sharon
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