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.11/4/09
Hello.
i have an iPhone, and i have two macs (mac mini, mbp)
since i got my iPhone i started using address book and now i have all my contacts in my iPhone and my mbp, but i do want to automatically sync my address book from my mbp or iphone to my mac mini.
i don’t want to ... (2 Comments)
11/3/09
Hi Gary,
In Leopard it was possible to add a scroll bar to sticky notes using interface builder, but in Snow Leopard the ‘compiled nib’ appears un-editable. Is there any way around this? I love stickies and really miss the added functionality of the scroll ... (1 Comment)
11/3/09
Dear Gary,
I would like to know the answer to this question:
Are PowerPC Macs out of date?
Yours sincerely,
Teddy!
— Teddy
... (2 Comments)
11/3/09
hi gary i have a coupje of dilemmas i am sure you have the answers to
1) when i sync my iphone with my imac it wont sync the songs i have on my iphone to my imac the i mac is brand new this week so it does not have any songs on it and it says that if i want to sync it to itunes ... (18 Comments)
11/2/09
First when I try to use safari it doesn’t even come up with the download button. Then when I use the internet expolorer it comes up with the download button after I select the correct OS and it doesn’t do anything. Any suggestions on how to get it to download. ... (1 Comment)
11/2/09
Hello everyone.
I am hsn. and i have just bought my first amazing iPhone 3 days ago, and now i am using address book and so many applications
i would like to know how can i setup my contacts birthdays so before their birthday comes iCal could remind me.
alos, in address book ... (3 Comments)
11/1/09
Hi Gary,
When I download pictures from my digital camera onto my MacBook Pro, the import gets stuck in the middle of the download. I can’t close out without using the iPhoto force quit. Then when I open iPhoto again it says I have photos in my iPhoto library that have not ... (15 Comments)
11/1/09
quick time movies which used to open automatically in firefox with the quick time 7 plug in no longer do so and i am redirected to the quick time 7 download site even though i did include it in the snow leopard install.
In safari the movie opens the quick time 10 application
Is ... (1 Comment)
11/1/09
Dear Gary,
I subscribe to your podcast, MacAnswers…
…Before I updated to iTunes 9, I had the behavior set to download the most recent ones, and delete the ones I have viewed…
…Now, I can’t find the panel to set that, because it has forgotten the ... (2 Comments)
10/31/09
My Formatting Palate is just off screen (Microsoft Word for Mac). I check to see the Fomatting Palate and I see if fly off screen. How can I get it back to where I can see/use it on my screen?
— Katharyn
... (4 Comments)
10/31/09
I just got a iMac G4, what is the latest OS I can put on it? It has 10.2.8 on it now and has 800 MHz and 256MB of ram. What can I upgrade that too.
— Gary McNeil
... (6 Comments)
10/31/09
Gary, I purchased a PowerMac G5 quad 2.5 computer with Final Cut Pro v. 6.0.5 installed on it. Thank goodness, I made a clone copy of the hard drive immediately after purchasing it and keep the copy in a secure location away from the computer. My problem is that after I install ... (1 Comment)
10/31/09
I was wondering if you can edit the Genre-Info for app’s and the Category-Info for podcasts in iTunes, b/c I like to view my apps and podcasts in these options but there are so many different genres and categories out there that this view isn’t very helpful at the ... (5 Comments)
10/31/09
Hi Gary,
My Sigma SD10 camera relies on Sigma Photo Pro on my Mac to transfer photos from camera to Mac. It’s been crashing lots, though, since I updated to Snow Leopard (I had to upgrade from Photo Pro 2.0 to 3.3).
The crash logs go to Apple, according to the window that ... (1 Comment)
10/30/09
Hi Gary,
I always try to tag my photos within iPhoto to help with details. However, whenever I use the search function at the bottom of the iPhoto screen, I can never seem to locate a particular photo. It only seems to find photos by their event titles. Do you know how iPhoto ... (3 Comments)
10/30/09
I have Vista SP2 on the boot camp partition of my iMac 24″. When attempting to run the boot camp drivers from the Snow Leopard disc, it adds some drivers and then bogs down and never finishes.
I had to use the Leopard disc with boot camp 2 drivers which worked okay.
Any ... (3 Comments)
10/30/09
What do I need to do this.
— Gary McNeil
... (1 Comment)
10/30/09
Gary,
With the holiday approaching, it’d be nice to have some holiday themed mail templates. Would you know of a site that has free ones?
— Michelle
... (2 Comments)
10/29/09
I use time machine but weekly and before upgrading I make an image backup. I use the Disk Utility for this but I find some options don’t work.
I go to File->New->Disk Image from disk0s2 (Macintosh HD)..
A dialog opens that says SaveAs: Macintosh HD
The drive selected is my ... (3 Comments)
10/29/09
Hello,
I have had a Macbook Pro for about a year now and I have fallen in love with the Mac. I take LOTS of photos and I use my Mac now all the time over my PC. I want to store all my photos on a USB or Firewire hard drive because it has gotten to the point I am filling up my ... (2 Comments)
