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.5/13/10
Hi Gary,
I have an issue with home sharing. I have activated home sharing with the same accoun on my mac and a PC running Windows XP. I can see the mac music library on the PC and stream it, but I cannot copy the files to the PC library (so it is like file sharing, not like home ... (1 Comment)
5/13/10
I have a bunch of old wpd (WordPerfect) files in an ooooollllld directory that I’d like to convert to doc files, or at least open. Is there a way to do this through Word on the mac?
Thanks
— George
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5/13/10
I bought macbook pro in Jan 2010. It was booting up very fast. but it takes longer time to boot. Please advice on how to improve on this.
Thanks
— Vikas
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5/12/10
I have been considering setting up a non-administrative account as a simple security measure and the notion is now more on-my-mind thanks to the recent notice of a specific problem with Safari.
That said, I do not wish to have to recreate all my settings, preferences, etc. in the ... (2 Comments)
5/12/10
hi gary
is there a way to download a movie on the ipad then connect it to the larger imac screen ahd view the movie on the larger screen
— paulie3660
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5/11/10
Gary,
I am using a Mac Pro 1st generation with OS 10.5.8. I almost always use finder in the list view. I don’t know what happened but my list order has reversed itself on it’s own and I can’t seem to change it back to the way I had it. The “arrange ... (3 Comments)
5/11/10
Hi Gary,
My Olympus digital voice recorder creates WMA files which I used to play back using QuickTime 7 at faster or slower speeds, through the intermediary program Flip4Mac.
I still use QuickTime 7 but Flip4Mac has since changed. It now takes quite a while for a file to ... (1 Comment)
5/11/10
I have a 1TB Time Machine which acts as a router and ONLY one of my four Mac’s back up on this machine. Recently it started blinking with a yellow light, so I though that there was a problem, and when I checked – it said that the drive was getting full. My settings ... (1 Comment)
5/10/10
Can you have seperate accounts under one email address/apple ID? We are a family of 4 with only one email address. When I try to set up accounts for my children I am denied because the email address is already in use.
— eileen
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5/10/10
Hey Gary,
I’m trying to organize my parents old photo’s and I was wondering if you could put folders inside a Event in iPhoto so I could separate certain photo’s and organize them by holiday’s, moths, years etc.
Thanks for your help
— Justin
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5/10/10
Dear Gary,
If I have physically a CD and import it into iTunes (MP3 or AAC format), can I get rid of the CD forever? Am I legally allowed to listen to the music if I don’t have the physical CD anymore? How the license for these musics works?
— Fernando Shayani
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5/10/10
Brother and I each have a Mac. Mine is a PowerMac G5, his is a newer iMac.
We share an Internet connection through a hardware switch.
He has Dreamweaver and Photoshop installed on his iMac.
Beyond file sharing, is there a facility that allows me to use the Dreamweaver and ... (3 Comments)
5/10/10
Any ideas how to archive mts. files from my Sony SR11 HD AVCHD.
I am using a iMac 27″ OS 10.6.3. I would to store them for future use to edit and create movies.
— Imacer99
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5/9/10
My Wii cant pick up the wifi on my airport extreme. What can I do to get it to work?
— Donnell Johns
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5/8/10
Hi Gary, I was hoping to edit a powerpoint document in keynote or pages, but i am unable to open it.
can you also suggest a way where we can open a pages or keynote document to play in a windows pc
thanks
aravind
— Aravindhan Donohoe
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5/8/10
Hi Gary
I have a question about the one password program is there a way to make the one password screen the default screen for logging onto your computer as well as opening up one password program
Thanks Paul
— Paulie3660
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5/7/10
Gary I am so glad you talked about calibre! I have been trying it with magazines I’ve downloaded. Also PDF documents,also with Macworld super guides that I have purchased and downloaded,some words are missing or jumbled,you read one line and the next line doesn’t ... (1 Comment)
5/7/10
I am using iPhoto’08 and iMovie’08. I have already set up photos in iPhoto with descriptive titles. When transferring those photos into iMovie to make a slide show, can I get iMovie to automatically add those photo titles to each slide in the movie, or do I again have ... (1 Comment)
5/7/10
hi mate i downloaded the new update for itunes on my macbook now when i click on itunes it does nothing wont loan or anything even if i put a cd in it wont load to itunes. it was fine befor i did the update. plus this is my first mac so dont no alot about them how to uninstal it ... (1 Comment)
5/6/10
Hi there! Just wanted to share with you a new way of using Quick View that I discovered recently. In Snow Leopard, you can hit space button not only in Finder window, but also when in “Open” window of OSX applications. You can equally use this functionality while ... (2 Comments)
