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.4/13/10
Hi Gary
having external hard drives and so on are still not that safe for backing up. they always could crash in the end.
i know there is iDisk, but 20GB is not that enough for me.
do u recommend any online service that could help me backup my most important files and data ... (3 Comments)
4/13/10
I am capturing photos from the Google Maps application (street mode) in landscape…but when I view them in my photos folder…they only appear sideways. When I turn my iPad sideways, the photo just readjusts sideways, too. How can this be fixed so you can view your ... (2 Comments)
4/13/10
I am trying to figure out if I need more memory for my MBP. It has 4 gb. When I go to Activity Monitor, I see that there are five different states of memory:
Free
Wired
Active
Inactive
Used
What do these different states mean, particularly Wired and Inactive? I usually have ... (1 Comment)
4/12/10
I am a long time PC user and recent Mac convert. In the PC world I am used to using cookie management software to get rid of spy cookies, etc.
What is the best way to manage cookies on the Mac?
— Frenchman
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4/12/10
Can I arrange open windows in a fan, like a deck of cards? Expose is OK, but I’d prefer seeing them stacked in a fan.
— iPop
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4/12/10
Hi, i recently bought a second-hand macbook and was wondering, if i reformated it, what are the things i need to have a newly bought computer the default programs? i don’t have time machine or any installation disk. Thanks
— John
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4/12/10
Hi Gary, many thanks for your podcasts; i move to mac a couple of years back and I have been able to use it better since I follow your podcasts. One thing that is bother me lately is the Computer-to-Computer network. I use it to sync Things on my iPhone and my MacBook Pro (I ... (2 Comments)
4/12/10
I have a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard, and sometimes it does not go to sleep per the Energy Saver settings. I’ve asked about this multiple times at the Genius Bar, but no one seems to have a consistent explanation. One Apple Genius thought that my router was keeping ... (5 Comments)
4/12/10
With the release of iTunes 9, there is a new option for Bit Rate Conversion to 128k AAC on the Summary tab when syncing an iPhone or iPod. I turned this one last night, and, after a long initial syncing/conversion process, it almost doubled the amount of free space on my iPod ... (2 Comments)
4/9/10
Hi Gary,
i did the automounting another way:
– start the network drive
– go to settings/user/ starting objects (hope these are the right translations)
– add the drive via “+”
– it ll do so everytime u start ur mac
– negative: there ll be ...
4/9/10
hi gary, I saw someone was having problems with time machine so you recomended super duper, I have been reading up on it and it says it can clone your hard drive,it also says you can make a larger hard drive on your computor, I dont want to do that, can I just connect a external ... (6 Comments)
4/9/10
has anyone else downloaded the new MSN messneger 8.0 for mac?
I have and i can not get the audio chat or the video chat to work.
iChat works great for AOL but most of my family is on MSN.
Any assistance would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
— Michael Dotson
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4/8/10
An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie.
I got this error when I tried to play the keynote on apple.com. Any ideas what this means ??
— nash
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4/8/10
hi Gary.
i use my macbook pro out a lot, so i don\t connect it to my time machine backup a lot. so the following have happened.
in a day i connected my macbook to the hard drive and allowed time machine to do its backup,
then after few days i decided to format and recover my mac ... (2 Comments)
4/8/10
hi Gary, just wanna ask you about a router that my friend wanna buy
he is confused about which one to buy, should he buy an airport extreme or time capsule, or should he go to other routers from linksys or belkin????
so is the airport extreme good anough for its price, because ... (5 Comments)
4/8/10
I just read on a well known website that Adobe flash hides cookies that are not deletable by Safari or 3rd party apps like Onyx.
Is this true?
Does private browsing stop them from being loaded in the first place?
— Bruce
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4/8/10
I have an 801.11g network that my iPhone doesn’t seem to recognize. Works fine on my computer. I can get on it in terms of entering the password, and it shows the IP address and the subnet mask, but nothing else. Any suggestions?
— Todd Peperkorn
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4/7/10
Hello Garry,
Have you had a chance to do a battery test on the IPad? I have read some reviews that say it exceeds the stated time by Apple. Thanks,
— Nash
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4/6/10
Since the update 4.0.5 I haven’t been able to view sites that play Flash video,for example The DailyShow with John Stewart.com site.I downloaded Flash and installed but nothing please help.
— Jose frias
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4/6/10
I use one external drive for time machine to back up. Is it a bad idea to back up other files, photos etc.. on the same drive. My external drive is 1TB.
— Imacer99
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