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.2/28/10
Hi Gary,
I have mail.app on snow leopard configured for my company’s exchange server.
Whenever my colleagues forwards me a mail, with images in it, I do not see any image in my mail. Just a place holder rectangle, and a blue question mark in the center. Right click and ... (1 Comment)
2/27/10
Does Apple updates the languages dictionaries frequently?
In my case, I use the Brazilian Portuguese language for my work, but I see that there are a lot of mistakes or words that exists but the dictionary doesn’t have. I frequently add those words, but now there are many ... (1 Comment)
2/27/10
hi gary i saw your video of scratch is there any other programme maker in which i can make a programme for my team and task allocation i saw omniplan but its too large and expensive for my need
thanks
— nirja
... (2 Comments)
2/27/10
So, I downloaded the Movie “Yes Man” for about 9,99€ in the iTunes Store. I wanted to watch it now, but it keeps saying, that I did not downloaded it with my Account. But in the Tab “Downloads” IS the “Yes Man” and I am logged in with my ... (2 Comments)
2/26/10
The space bar does not wake my mac up when in sleep mode.
Tried all the keys, what else can I do?
— Rusty
... (3 Comments)
2/26/10
Hi Gary,
I noticed a hairline crack in the outer case of my MacBook. It runs from the center finger notch all the way to screw on the left side. I have been looking online for info on this (and Apple Care is scheduled to call me Saturday morning). Have you heard about this or ... (2 Comments)
2/26/10
what cables to connect a lacie to imac 2010?
— Rusty
... (1 Comment)
2/25/10
I notice in your videos that your highlighted color is a purple even in some of the drop down menus. I know how to change the highlight colors in the system pref/appearance but how did you change the highlight color of your drop downs from the menu bar.
Thanks
— Glen ... (2 Comments)
2/25/10
hi, on the mac in login items there is ituneshelper, someone told me that it isnt needed so I took it away, Is it needed? When I connect my iphone I see that itunes doesnt automatically open anymore, Is that the only thing I need it for? And how do I get it back if I want it ... (5 Comments)
2/25/10
After waiting for months and finally pre-ordering in December, I finally downloaded this new product from Intuit.
Cut to the chase…. It is so bad I can’t believe it!!!!
It is totally useless and lacks 90% of the functionallity of the 2010 Windows version.
I’m ... (5 Comments)
2/24/10
hi gary
i have made a key note presentation but now i wish to divide it into 6 parts making each part a seperate slide show how should i do it???
thanks
— nirja
... (1 Comment)
2/24/10
I have an 8gb thumb drive that I wanted to use to transfer video files from my mac to a pc. I’ve formatted the thumb drive with disk utility (FAT), and put the files onto it. When I plug it into the pc, it says the drive needs to be formatted. And if I try and format it ... (7 Comments)
2/24/10
I use dropbox to share my iTunes database (located on a Western Digital Sharespace NAS) between my Mac Mini and my wife’s MacBook. I tried it with iPhoto, but the performance was terrible. A colleague said that I could simply put the iPhoto library file on the NAS and run ... (4 Comments)
2/24/10
Hi Gary,I have considering buying at some point a Time Machine since it has all the requirements I would want except one, a way to stream music to various speakers like the airport express ability. Is there any product that has the same features as the time machine while also ... (6 Comments)
2/23/10
Gary,
When I use the save or save as feature in Word or Photoshop, I can sometimes get the folder I want to show up in the drop down menu at the top of the window, but sometimes I can’t. I don’t understand how to get the folder I want to save things to to show up in ... (1 Comment)
2/23/10
Gary, how do you find the MAC Address for aMacintosh computer?
— Rick Torchia
... (1 Comment)
2/23/10
Hi Gary,
How do you stop the native MacMail on my Imac or Macbook to STOP asking for a “subject line” prior to sending out an email. How annoying is that?
Thanks,
PAUL
— Paul
... (11 Comments)
2/23/10
Hi Gary, When I first got my mac I started to import all my photos into iPhoto but found that it doesn’t update itself when I add a new photo into the folder and I find it really tedious having to first download my photos into the desktop, then move certain files into ... (7 Comments)
2/23/10
Is there a way to change the mail folder icons within Apple Mail from the default blue folders to other icons? This was help speed up my processing of email and referencing folders. :)
I tried searching online, but didn’t find any definitive answer. I have been able to ... (1 Comment)
2/22/10
I am trying to encode some of my videos for iTunes (HD & iPhone) and also for streaming to my Tivo. What is the best file format to use for this? And also, what would a reasonable size be for a typical two hour movie? I encoded one and it was like 20gb. That seems a bit ... (1 Comment)
