Recent questions tagged macs

Description : What is the best back up for a home mac?

Last Answer : answer:I researched this a couple of years ago and decided SuperDuper! was the best backup utility, both because it preserves the most metadata related to each file and because it allows you to create a ... or set up a backup hard drive using Time Machine, which is included with 10.6 and higher.

Description : Good places to buy/sell/trade Macs?

Last Answer : What kind of Mac are you trading?

Description : Is there something like MS Paint for my Macbook?

Last Answer : ehm, not really. but you could download GIMP for free; it’s more powerful, but it’ll do whatever Paint would do.

Description : Device to listen to radio on my MacBook (sans WiFi)?

Last Answer : Any fm reciever that can plug into a headphone jack should work. There are many for the iPod for around $50 that could work.

Description : I just downloaded the program Deeper and I was wondering about how to run dashboard widgets on my desktop.

Last Answer : Have you logged out and back in? (Or, alternatively, restarted the dock?)

Description : Any cool money folding tricks?

Last Answer : Your Google-Fu is weak young grasshopper.

Description : Mac Problems: The screen is taking up the whole moniter and it looks all big.

Last Answer : Can you define “screen” better? A window in a certain application? Have you tried hitting the green circle in the upper left hand corner of the window? Or is it system wide?

Description : Is there a pattern that determines which icons in Windows (or Macs) are round, which are rectangular, and which are (the rare) triangles?

Last Answer : I'm not sure I understand the question... In general the icon designs are made by the application designers, unless they are part of the Operating System. There are general trends among the OSes with regard to smoothness and shininess, but what do you mean about the shapes?

Description : Is there a way to change the username of an admin account in OS X ?

Last Answer : In one of David Pogue's "Macs for Dummies" series, he has the tip for that. Can't remember which one or where. Try the Help menu also. Altho I am running 10.4.10 and maybe Help has been updated.

Description : Why do corporate IT departments hate Macs so much?

Last Answer : answer:Well, one, as someone who uses a Mac and manages a corporate windows network (not very well... but it is something I do) -- Large networks (windows in particular) tend to be Complex. Strange ... have a windows server & a mac server and just keep the two separate, only meeting at the servers.

Description : How do I take a screenshot on a Mac?

Last Answer : shift apple 3 to take the whole screen. Or shift apple 4 if you want to use your mouse to define which part of the screen you'd like to capture.

Description : How do I set which applications I want to be the default?

Last Answer : sry.. wish i could edit titles. :) but this is on a Mac, as the "topics" might indicate.

Description : Leopard.. Macs.. Mirza..?

Last Answer : answer:Leopard doesn't come out until October. I'd assume shortly after that, macbooks will be preloaded with them. From my understanding the macbook update has already occurred. And I don't know about mirza :-)

Description : When I'm connected to a file server I can't see certain files...

Last Answer : answer:This sounds like it could be one of two things: 1. Special characters are messing up AFP. This seems unlikely given that all your folders are empty and not just a few. 2. I ... and permission changes via the web administration by entering the IP address of the LaCie disk in your browser.

Description : Why does iTunes create duplicate files when I drag and drop MP3's?

Last Answer : Does this happen when you drag a song from your library into a new playlist or when you drag a song from outside iTunes and drop it in? If you have Copy files to iTunes music folder when ... the problem by dragging a song from my library into a new playlist with the current version of iTunes.

Description : Do you think Apple will ever open it's OS to the public or always be married to Macs?

Last Answer : I think os x will always be married to their own hardware. That way they control sales. Its how they have always done it. I mean tons of people buy new hardware to switch. I did

Description : Is it true?

Last Answer : There have been some proof of concept viruses; but none in the wild, no.

Description : What's a good design, drawing program for the Mac that's high quality, but not impossible to use?

Last Answer : Do you have a tablet that you intend to use with it?

Description : IPhone wont sync videos unless bought from iTunes?

Last Answer : Well your Ipod should take any video that is in the MPEG-4 format. You can get some great programs to covert and video to this format such as Handbrake (free) or Toast 9.