MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


Have a how-to question? Ask it here in the MacMost Forum.
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9/22/10
Hi, I’m using parallels 6 on my macbook pro, it’s running windows xp that I installed using bootcamp. It seems to run ok, but occasionally I get an error message saying “unable to access hard disk 1, an error occurred when accessing the hard disk. Error ID: ... (4 Comments)
9/22/10
Hi Gary I thought that apple was going to add priting capabilities in the ios 4.1 update? — Paulie3660 ... (1 Comment)
9/22/10
Gary, can I use Back to my Mac from an iPad? Right now I’m considering to move to Mac, getting a more “portable” device than a Laptop PC, can I access my hard drive at home (If I get a Mac book or an iMac) from an iPad? If so, what do you think is the best idea, ... (2 Comments)
9/22/10
When I delete something off a flash drive, I simply drag and drop it into the trash. It seems to remove it from my flash drive, but in reality it doesn’t. The file is still present taking up space, it just doesn’t show up. If I empty the trash while the flash drive is ... (1 Comment)
9/21/10
Hi Gary, just want to know how to record my iPhone screen without pointing a camera at my phone in my hand. Is this possible? Same with my iPad — Will Galloway ... (5 Comments)
9/21/10
Recently with the last safari update I noticed all my bookmarks on my bookmark bar are gone. I had add them back and they keep disappearing what is going on??? HELP — Tony ... (1 Comment)
9/21/10
I would kindly ask if the current OS Snow leopard is reliable or still have bugs ? and is it better to use the previous OS ? Thanks — Nasser Jabi ... (1 Comment)
9/21/10
I partitioned my hard drive using bootcamp and I put windows 7 on my computer. Now whenever I start my computer it automatically wants to go to windows 7 by default. I have to hold down the option key to switch it to Mac OSX. I am using Snow Leopard as the Os for mac. How can I ... (2 Comments)
9/21/10
I was trying to drag the blue application folder to the dock to make it available to make stacks. Instead it started making copies of it self ( I do not know how many copies of the same files it made. ) for the dock. I stopped the copying process. However, I now had 223,000 ... (2 Comments)
9/21/10
Just wondering if anyone knows why all the icons on the left side of ITunes 10 (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, etc. etc.) are all gray now. The entire interface is a flat gray, no life, no color. What the heck happened? — Johnny Gear ... (1 Comment)
9/20/10
I’m trying to copy a 7 minute hd project to youtube and the menu pops up saying not enough space. I have a 50 gig external drive with nothing else on it. so i don’t know if this means my harddrive or the youtube harddrive doesn’t have enough space. youtube says ... (1 Comment)
9/20/10
Is there a way to add titles with more than 2 lines? I want to type ( The Dedham Car show Presented by the antique car association of Boston) the title effect i used limited me to only 2 lines. How do i add more lines? Thanks Peter L — Peter Lelievre ... (3 Comments)
9/20/10
Is there a good equivalent to Photoshop for macs. I have a project for school and I am to edit an advertisement to make it more effective. I am to change the fonts, change background colors, etc to make it more appealing. I was wondering if there was a program for macs or a ... (1 Comment)
9/20/10
[In the iPhone Stocks app] Anglo American shares are (now) 2.553, yet the daily share price shows 11.5! In my wildest dreams ! The weekly chart shows steady decline yet the share price has risen all week however the weekly share price is correct at 2.553. monthly/ 3 monthly seems ... (2 Comments)
9/20/10
How do I edit the mail contacts, which seem to be a random selection from my various email addresses. — Neil Sinclair ... (1 Comment)
9/20/10
Dear Gary In iCal there is an exclamation mark next to every location in the event inspector. What is that? Is it good for something? Thanks for help. Attila — Orgati ... (3 Comments)
9/19/10
Hi Gary, Is it possible to export documents created by pages on the iPad to a Mac? Thanks, Tommy — Tommy ... (1 Comment)
9/19/10
How to write @ character with Apple wireless keyboard? — BM ... (2 Comments)
9/18/10
With my PC (in a prior life), I could build a Excel portfolio spreadsheet containing individual stock symbols and, using a program provided by Money, when the sheet was opened, current quotes for the entered stocks were updated and returned into appropriate row cells for that ... (2 Comments)
9/18/10
Gary Ive been a fan of Macmost for many years. In my job I often want to do online demo and video pod cast. So I am interested to know a little about how you produce your show. What software do you use for screen capturing and integrating the video window of yourself? Does the ... (1 Comment)