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.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)
10/29/09
I’m trying to find the best way to archive video footage from iMovie that isn’t used as often anymore (such as when mt daughter was an infant), but have a way to make it available if I want to use it in a future project. For example, archive everything from 2007 to a ... (3 Comments)
10/29/09
I would like to change my Apple ID because I have a new email address. I already found out that I can use https://myinfo.apple.com to make this change. But happens to
– my old DRM-protected music in iTunes?
– my DRM-protected TV shows in iTunes?
– my iPhone apps ... (83 Comments)
10/28/09
Photography bloggers are bemoaning Apple’s seeming lack of interest in coming out with Aperture 3. What’s your take on Aperture’s future?
— John Russell
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10/28/09
Dear Gary,
I don’t really understand what force means…
… As in force quit or force boot!
Please could you help me understand?
Yours sincerely, Teddy!
— Teddy
... (4 Comments)
10/28/09
Gary, what’s your preference between Firefox and Camino? Or do you prefer to stick with Safari?
— Michelle
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10/28/09
What is the easiest/best way to save FLV video content files to a Mac. hard drive?
— DS
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10/28/09
My new iMac is not connecting to my mac mini over my network I want to get a file from my mini to my new iMac over my network
— Colin
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10/27/09
Gary,
Am I missing something? I’ve noticed that iCal doesn’t sync To-Dos with iPhone.
When I look in iCal, there’s nothing there. I’ve even tried 3rd party apps. These sync perfectly between the app and iCal, even creating a Task calendar which shows up on ... (2 Comments)
10/27/09
Is it safe to delete files in the “originals” folder under username/pictures, specifically “filename_2” or “filename_3? In some cases I have 4 and even 6 copies. Should I go through and remove only the 2nd,3rd,4th, etc., copies of the originals and ... (1 Comment)
10/27/09
hey gary,
i got a litte problem with my speakers on my macbook 13,3” from late 2008. after i upgraded to 10.6 my speakers are turned of after every start up. it’s not a real big problem, but after 3 weeks now it’s getting buggy.
i always here that start up sound ... (7 Comments)
10/26/09
I have made a iCal calendar for our housework. Now I would like to share with the other macs in our household. Is it possible to do this withou using an external server oder an MobileMe account?
— Timo Paessler
... (1 Comment)
10/26/09
Not sure if “crash log” is the right term, but isn’t it true that when an application crashes that there’s some record left as a text file that would be useful to the program’s engineers? In my case Prizmo keeps crashing and I’d really like to ... (1 Comment)
10/25/09
I’m a fourteen-year-old in the USA. I guess I’ve finally brought into the whole ‘Mac-Apple altar’ thing. I have experience with them (my bro’s macbook from 2006 and the 2007(?) iMacs in my music/tech class) and honestly, they OWN Windows-based ... (2 Comments)
10/25/09
I noticed that the new smart playlist diaglog has a + a – and a … option now. The … is new. I clicked on it to see what it does and it adds a new row
The help does not describe what the new … option does but I would guess it allows nesting of conditions ... (1 Comment)
10/25/09
Quicken requires Internet Explorer and I cannot find it available for a mac download
— Winnie Holbrooke
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10/25/09
hi gary
how do you delete multiply calendars on the iphone
i only really need one the others can go
— paulie3660
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10/24/09
Gary,
I found that Word and Excel were s l o w to start after I upgraded to SL. Safari was a tad slow as well.
After validating fonts and disabling dupes, I ran the beta version of Onyx for SL and ran maintenance scripts and cleaned font cache.
Amazing. Everything is much ... (2 Comments)
10/24/09
hi gary
i just bought the new i mac 21.5″ 3.06ghz and 8 gb memory with a 1 tb hard drive and a 1 tb timecapsules so i have between $150 to 200 dollars left what do recommend for a wireless all in one printer
— paulie3660
... (1 Comment)
10/24/09
Is there a way on my iPhone to, for example, listen to a Russian novel from Audible.com and some Tchaikovsky from my music library *simultaneously* on my iPhone?
— John Russell
... (1 Comment)
