Plugging in an external monitor and it doesn't work
I have a Macbook Pro (retina) and, using a HDMI cable, I plugged it into a Dell U2711. Mountain Lion suddenly changes the screen display on the Macbook, but nothing happens on the Dell. It's just a...
View ArticleTrouble Importing burned CDs to iTunes 11.0.1
For years I have been able to import CDs which I have burned on my home stereo from vinyl and other sources. Now that I have iTunes 11.0.1, whenever I try to do this I get a message that I have...
View ArticleManually organize iPhoto pics
I've just experienced a corrupt iPhoto library even though everything in the iPhoto Library looks fine, for some reason iPhoto won't load the library correctly. Although I can pull my backup from...
View ArticleMathType and Pages no longer playing nice
I've used MathType with Pages without any issues for quite a while now. Until very recently, the process for inserting an equation into a document was very straightforward:Within Pages, I would choose...
View ArticleApp or Program that will Allow You To Watch iTunes Password Protected Movies ?
Gentleman, My girlfriend recently came across about a dozen of Movies that she had on a external hard drive. The Movies are from a old friend of her's that gave her the movies to watch. These movies...
View ArticleDVD Burning Software
Ive been using Toast 11 to burn dvds, it takes a good chunk of the day to encode about 2 hours of footage. I have a mbpr 2.7 16gig. Are there settings I can adjust for faster encoding? Or can you guys...
View ArticleAperture and iPhoto
Hello, I just had this small question,like in iPhoto,you go in preferences and uncheck the box so it does not copy the photos in it's own library,ain't a similar option there in aperture ? I looked...
View ArticlePlease help find spyware installed on my MacBook Air!
I'm very concerned that someone who installed a few programs on my mac over a year ago, also installed spyware (or can access my laptop remotely). I have read previous posts: if I understand correctly,...
View ArticleUsing "rsync" for differential backups...
Hi all, I'm sure this is old hat to many of you, but I've promised to give some examples of the use of rsync and its remote update protocol. The following commands perform a few differential backup...
View ArticleRetina Display Support for Office Mac 2008
Hi all, I just got a macbook pro retina display (Feb 2013) and my text in MS Word looks blurry, which seems to be a known error from your postings. Has a fix turned up for office mac 2008? If not, does...
View ArticlePages quits when saving
I have current pages. I tried reinstalling and everytime i save a file to icloud it crashes on me.
View ArticleMail.app won't search entire messages
I can search by To and From and Subject OK, but searching the body or entire message always turns up nothing. I have read around for may solutions and tried them all. I've: Rebuilding the spotlight...
View Articlechrome freezes
However, after I reformatted my computer, I notice Google chrome freezes a lot. I tried reinstalling Chrome. It went fine until I synced my setting with Google - it doesn't matter what I sync (history,...
View ArticleCaldav setup issue
Hi all, I'm having some issues with the Caldav feature. I'd like to set up iCal to sync with my google account, but every time i click the plus in the accounts tab nothing happens. Does anyone have any...
View ArticleMail attachments
It seems as if many Windows email clients can not separate and see a jpg attachment to a email from a Mac. From what I can find there are 3 things that can be done on the Mac side. 1. Do plain text...
View ArticleSongs on iTunesMatch not showing on iTunes
Hello there. I recently added an album to my iTunes library by dragging the songs (as I've always done in the past). Songs did copy, because when I look them up on the iTunes search bar the album shows...
View ArticleConverting .dvdmedia to .m4v
Just wanted to see if anyone has had success in finding video conversion (specifically .dvdmedia to .m4v or mp4) freeware that does not have a watermark? I have tried a numer of 'free trails' but they...
View ArticleProblem with Apple Mail konfiguration of outgoing server
it was working when the server entry read something like mail.example.com ; info@example.com which i accidently deleted.it does not work with just mail.example.com could someone please give me the...
View ArticleProblem importing contacts to adress book
I am using textedit 1.5 and Mail version 3.6 but can't import the emailaresses from the textfile even when I change the extension to .cvs any suggestions?
View ArticleMs office 2011 help
hello, I just noticed a folder titled MS Office 2011 (Others)-it has MS Query,Database Utility,Reminders and Solver-what are these ? Can I delete them ? Do we need silverlight on mac ?
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