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.11/10/09
Hi everyone, thanks for being here! My niece just got a Mac w/ OS X on it. She has no experience with this O/S. I am quite knowledgeable about windows but just starting to look into the Mac thing, so I can Dump Bill Gates! Is there a way I can set up her Mac to read windows mail ... (4 Comments)
11/10/09
I accedently “learned” a ward in apple mail and it was the wrong spelling. How do I unlearn the word.
— Doug Dagan
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11/10/09
How do I copy a video from a web site for use in a keynote presentation
— Larry
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11/10/09
I would like to ask how do we convert an MP3 audioboook into M4B format.
— Sam
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11/9/09
My MacBook Pro 17″ with latest Snow Leopard is showing all sorts of symptoms in the system, Text Edit (note my earlier post re: listing apps in a text file), strange messages at startup, crashing Adobe products…every session brings more surprises. My question: Given ... (1 Comment)
11/9/09
When I start Safari 4, the first thing that happen is that it shows 2 untitled tabs to me which disappear immediately.
I deleted the preferences, but nothing changed.
I updated to 10.6.2, but the the “problem” is still going on.
What is happening?
— robert
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11/9/09
hello, when i choose sync music with my iPhone all albums sync to my iPhone, which is expected. but i was wondering could i choose certain albums so they could never be synced with my iPhone, even if i choose sync my must????
wishes
hsn
— Hassan
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11/9/09
I bought a few DVDs from England because they weren’t available in the US, but it won’t play on my DVD player. It will play on my Mac SuperDrive, but I am allowed to switch the region code only 4 times. If I switch it region 2 rip the DVDs to my Mac, will I be able ... (3 Comments)
11/9/09
I have a Mac Pro with 4 hard drive bays and I am thinking of moving my home (user) folder to another hard drive, so in the end one hard drive will contain my system & app’s (boot drive), a drive with my home folder (data drive) and finally a Time Machine drive. I read ... (3 Comments)
11/9/09
Is there a way to create from the list of applications in my Applications folder a text file from which I can start a Bento database?
— John Russell
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11/7/09
Don’t know if this is the proper place to seek help on this…but I’m at a loss. I created a movie file in FCP and exported it as a .Mov file. I moved it in to compressor and then to DVD SP. Now whenever I try to launch DVD SP a message says that it cannot find a ... (1 Comment)
11/6/09
hello! I was just wondering if anyone here knows and is willing to give me some tips on how can I make my own custom icons for my iPhone?
I don’t want to use other people icons , resize, change color or alter them in any way, I wanna learn how to create my own!
please if ... (2 Comments)
11/6/09
I would never go back to windows since my sis got me my 2nd MBP, but there is 1 annoying difference:
In windows, if I was set to replace a file with one of the same name, a warning would come up & say 1 already exists. Same is true in OSX.
The difference is the AGE (date ... (3 Comments)
11/6/09
hi
i have tried to to export my address book into my gmail contacts, and it did work just find. it even put them into their correct groups.
the problem is that when i did that each contact, which i uploaded, that was with a picture, doesn’t have one in my gmail account.
so ... (3 Comments)
11/5/09
I will be purchasing a new 27″ iMac soon and I am a little confused over which would be better. Should I get the faster clockspeed of the 3.06Ghz Core 2 Duo or get the quad core 4 i5 with only 2.66Ghz?
Which is really the faster (ie. better) processor? 3.06Ghz Core 2 or ... (2 Comments)
11/5/09
Since I’m the sole user of my MacBook Pro, I’ve chosen to use no password for the system. When asked for one, when installing or whatever, I simply leave the line blank, click OK, and go on my way. However, I’m wondering if, even though I don’t worry ... (3 Comments)
11/5/09
Newbie question — can these ringtones (for example, the Loud and clear ringtones) be used in the iphone for text messaging alerts?
Thanks
— Chisolm Wilson
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11/4/09
Gary,
I remember a tip about increasing the default font size mail uses via a terminal command, but can’t seem to locate it. Would you know about this tip?
— Michelle
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11/4/09
I want to take this computer apart to clean the dust out of it, and I heard that you have to have heat sync cement to put on the heat syncs before you put it back together. Is this true or not and if it is where can I get heat sync cement.
— Gary McNeil
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11/4/09
We currently have a MacBook at home, as I was thinking about adding another one soon. I was wondering how I could keep most things synced, like files, iPhoto, iTunes, and a could other things.
I’d love to have the same media and files on both computers, so I don’t ... (1 Comment)
