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.5/19/10
I have been looking into getting a mac for college. It will be my first mac. I realize that I will most likely still need to use Windows for certain tasks. Is there a way to install Windows on an external hard drive then boot up Windows from the external hard drive. I am afraid ... (8 Comments)
5/18/10
Hi Gary,
I am thinking of developing a site (part-time) for a former employer and was wanting to use iWeb.
Do you have any history with using it and what is your opinion of it? What do you use for Macmost.com?
Thanks.
Jason
— Jason
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5/18/10
Is there a way to search the MacMost video podcast files for tips on iPhoto?
— George
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5/18/10
I use a flash drive to play music in my car and I copy the music from my MacBook. I have noticed that my flash drive (pen drive) or my player reads the hidden files my MacBook creates on the flash drive and along with that it also creates some dummy files. One can also view them ... (2 Comments)
5/18/10
I have not been able to receive any podcasts from MacMost for about the last 5 weeks or so. I have unsubscribed and resubscribed a couple of times – but I get an error whenever I try to download an episode. BTW, all episode list with a length of 0:00 in the iTunes store ... (4 Comments)
5/18/10
I was one of the unfortunates who bought a Sony CamCorder that recorded to tape using MMV. Is there anyway to get these MMV native video files into iMovie or anything MAC?
Many thanks!
— Garfield Fisher
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5/17/10
As far as I can tell from searching forums similar to this one, my iPhone has a malady with a unique combination of symptoms.
Early today, my iPhone screen went all white and the iPhone became unresponsive. I tried the usual set of fixes, such as holding power+home and toggling ... (6 Comments)
5/17/10
Hi Gary,
I have added my flash drive to the Spotlight Privacy list but keeps on disappearing from the list. How can I keep it there.
Thank you.
— Ken
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5/17/10
Gary,
An acquaintance took his Macbook on a business trip and used it to send some email via public WiFi in his hotel. Afterwards he had many problems with his computer (I don’t know the details) and people in his AddressBook started getting junk mail. I can attest to the ... (5 Comments)
5/16/10
whats the best anti-virus for tiger? iAntiVirus is for leopard. do you know and “downloadable” anti-virus software?
— John Belarmino
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5/16/10
I do a simple podcast and I would like to work on automating the workflow. Is there any good way to easily convert an .aiff file into .mp3 using either Launchbar or Hazel or something else? I’d like to be able to drop the file into a folder and have it pop out as an ... (3 Comments)
5/15/10
Anyone know why ichat doesn’t provide a search function to locate friends like Skype? I’d like to try to use ichat but it seems you can only talk to friends that have either an AIM or MAC account. What’s with that? Most of my friends have PC’s, not ... (3 Comments)
5/15/10
I’ve seen an “iTunes Server” mentioned on a few NAS devices. Can you give us the low down on what it is and what it does?
— Todd
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5/15/10
Hi Gary,
Thanks for the great podcasts and all the wonderful tips.
I love the movie trailers on iTunes, but there are two things I can’t figure out how to do:
1. Find old ones. After they fall off the display of the 30 they show, there doesn’t seem to be a way to find ... (2 Comments)
5/14/10
Why is the new macbook pro is cheaper than the old one yet better than the old ones.
— Ariff
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5/14/10
I am thinking about getting an ipad to do some html coding while away from my desktop. I fully expect it not to come with the text edit (notes excluded)or could notes work for this? If not, does anyone know what the BEST text editor app for this kind of work is and that you ... (3 Comments)
5/14/10
When I download podcasts and play them on my iPhone I have the really neat feature to play at twice or four times the speed and to jump back 30 seconds. When I create my own podcast in garageband and move it to my iPhone via iTunes, I don’t have these neat features. My ... (1 Comment)
5/14/10
I just finished using the migration assistant from my wife’s macbook to my new imac. I can see that all the data made it over because of the size of the hard drive and the new user has been added in the finder under Mac HD/Users. Everything but the burn folder, public, and ... (5 Comments)
5/14/10
Gary, could you “think out loud” regarding how much memory one should consider getting on an iPad? I suspect maxing it out usually makes the best sense, but I have a temporary cash-flow problem.
Thanks.
— John Russell
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5/14/10
After exporting my movies and viewing them on both quicktime apps. The playback will stop about 4 seconds into the movie, than I would have to hit play again than movie will continue to play. I even spoke with Apple tecs and they did not have any solutions. Gary you have any ... (2 Comments)
