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.5/14/10
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)
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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