MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


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2/2/10
Gary, I must say that I’m really frustrated, still not being able to set up my e-mail account thru my provider using Microsoft’s mail program “Entourage”. I went in manually to do everything I did on my Microsoft Outlook Account on my windows based ... (1 Comment)
2/1/10
To join two one-page PDFs in Leopard, I copied the thumbnail from one PDF to another and saved the resulting file. This no longer works in Snow Leopard. I can drag a thumbnail over, but saving the combined file only includes the original page in the “combined” ... (1 Comment)
2/1/10
i wish to assign task to my project team members do mac has a program in which i can assign task to different people then mail them the list of task and also hand them a print out also their expenses can be noted also i can see on a perticular date what jobs need to be done by ... (1 Comment)
2/1/10
i have recently purchased a itouch 8 gb are there intresting softwares for utility that i can dowmload in itouch from where??/ — nirja ... (2 Comments)
1/31/10
Was wondering what the proper method for formating sd cards that have audio on them? I have tried disk utility, and formated for ms dos, which clears the card but when reloaded and put into my isynphony, doesn’t have any data on it. I’ve tried just placing unwanted ... (1 Comment)
1/31/10
Is it possible to copy the Applications link in Finder to the doc, like one can do with a regular application? I tried to do such, but it didn’t look like I could, but perhaps one must do something other than drag and drop. — Forkboy1965 ... (3 Comments)
1/31/10
Hi Gary, I am starting to think my MacBook battery will need replacing this year. Do you have any recommendations for purchasing a new battery? I see that through Apple is is quite a hefty price. I am assuming the ones I see on Amazon would work fine, but I was hopping for your ... (1 Comment)
1/31/10
can i make folders in mail application like i do in yahoo so that i can sort mails it becomes easy for future reference — nova ... (2 Comments)
1/31/10
Hi Gary, I have a Macbook pro (bought Autumn 2008, Intel 2.4Ghz, running OS 10.5.8) with an aluminum keyboard and have intermittent and random freezes on the trackpad/keyboard. Here in Singapore the apple service provider couldn’t help as there are no details of any ... (2 Comments)
1/31/10
i need to add transactions in the pics in the drop zones when making a project in idvd please help thanks — nirja ... (4 Comments)
1/31/10
Hello! I have a problem, when i export my video from FCE the video was around 2gb & it was just 8 min… How could i compress my video? or how should i export it from FCE? If you can answer both that’d be great. Thanks. — Aleks Barragan ... (1 Comment)
1/30/10
Hello! I’m trying to figure out the following. Am I able to purchase a wireless camera and see its video signal on my macBook. I would then like to take photos with it at set intervals. What I’m trying to do is advance my little stop motion studio. thanks! — ... (2 Comments)
1/30/10
I’m trying to make a Keynote presentation on Haiti relief that will include some Flash/YouTube vidos. What is the best way to get offline use of these and embed them into Keynote? — Todd Peperkorn ... (1 Comment)
1/29/10
I break my annual family video into several projects (e.g. by month). Is there a way to combine these iMovie 09 projects into a single project while retaining the added audio? — Bill P ... (2 Comments)
1/29/10
Is there a way to sort an email into a mailbox folder directly from the message? I usually have to close the email, drag it from the inbox into the mailbox folder. There has to be a simpler way to do it from the open email. — Leeboy ... (4 Comments)
1/29/10
Has anyone had experience giving webinars using a Mac? I used GotoWebinar once and it worked OK, except that the codec used for recording was only available for Windoze. Wanting to be able to record the webinar for later playback. — Millard Grubb ... (10 Comments)
1/29/10
Hi Gary Yesterday, my Mac needed to be restarted because of a Kernel Panic. My question is: why did the Kernel Panic occur? Extra info: I had iTunes running, Multiple Safari webbpages, Mail, Skype, Adium. But I got a kernel panic when I switched to another user account. Also, I ... (3 Comments)
1/28/10
I have been tracking stock options in the stocks app by put a doy .x at the end, i.e SLVPO.X. Now that the new 22 digit symbols are being used, I can’t figure out how to track these. When I try the new 22 character symbol, it says not recognized. I have have tried the ... (3 Comments)
1/28/10
Does anyone know of any templates either in keynote or PPoint. I can customize photos, etc, but need dimensions — michael ... (4 Comments)
1/28/10
Your podcast about creating iTunes Store links was a keeper. Is there a similar feature for widgets? I want to help introduce new Mac users to both the (included on the Mac) Movie widget and a (downloadable) traffic widget. — Luigi ... (1 Comment)