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If you are buying a used Mac there are many things you need to check out before you complete the purchase. You can run hardware diagnostics and check out battery and hard drive health. You should carefully inspect the screen, keyboard and other parts. It is…

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro with a built-in Facetime HD Camera. I connect a larger Apple monitor via the Mini DisplayPort on my MacBook. The monitor displys just fine, but I want to use the camera on the external monitor so I can keep the macBook lid closed. The…

I am trying to create an if statement with multiple formulas and within those formulas round a number and create a percentage. That percentage will be used to calculate the cell value with another formula. Ex., If C6B6 then I want the formula to be C6*.1.…

In Apple Numbers, Version 6.1, I want to convert a decimal value expressing a number of hours into a duration value consisting of hours and minutes, displayed as hh mm. My table looks like this: Lines Billing rate Money earned Time I can afford to spend (Money…

Based on this previous response: The auxiliary audio jack on your Mac isn’t the same type of thing as the one that comes out of mono cassette players. They are related, and the Mac one is made to work with one of those old cables in an audio-out capacity by…

I have a table that has three columns. The first column is a Date (in short date format, the second column is a contact type. There are 7 different contact types (Home visit, Hospital visit, phone call, etc) I want to enter a record that records each contact I…

It is fairly easy to compress a single file or multiple files and folders into a ZIP file archive on your Mac. You can also decompress any ZIP file by simply double-clicking it. This is useful for sending files online or to store files you no longer need. The…

I have been trying to import a lot of video camera files in to FCPX, and I keep having to shut it down because of Not enough App memory warnings. How do I take care of this situation? Mac Os Mojave, version 10.14.5 Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac13,2…

2010 Mac Pro / High Sierra. I would like to open at look at two different pages in numbers . How can this be done ? —– Wayne

Apple's new lineup of MacBooks simplifies your choices by removing the 12-inch MacBook and older MacBook Pro models. But you still have 8 base models of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Which one is the right one for you. But looking closely at the specifications…

I’d like to use numbers to determine the ages of the children in our daycare, so I can see at a glance if we are complying with the maximum allowed for each age bracket. It would also be nice to know when a child will be growing into the next bracket,…

I have used the open source, free KompoZer application for designing and maintaining a website for our condo community. It appears that a 64-bit version will NOT be available (for use with Catalina). KompoZer is a basic WYSIWYG application. Does anyone have a…

Instead of storing your videos in the Photos app with your pictures, consider storing them as files in a folder in the Finder. You can place this folder on your iCloud Drive, on your local drive only, or on an external drive. You can organize them using file…

You probably know that you can drag a file to an app icon in the Dock to open it. But that only works if the app recognizes the file as a type it can handle. If you want to force an app to try to open a file, hold down the Option and Command keys […]

how do I install new music on my ipod nano,, since apple no longer supports itunes —– richard lowry

I have a couple of Fujitsu scan snap scanners that work wonderfully well, but Fujitsu is not updating the drivers to 64 bit. I noticed in your video re: 32-bit v 64-bit you showed that you use these scanners as well. Must I upgrade to new equipment if I want…

I am on a website (fishing forum). One of the options is you can upload a picture. I see no way to do that on my Mac. I click “Choose File” on the website, then what? Thanks in advance. —– Gene

Many people overuse the minimize button to get applications and windows out of the way. In most cases, it is more efficient to use the Hide command to simply hide the app. Hidden apps can be quickly and easy brough back and you won't clutter your Dock with…

Here is the final script: function run(input, parameters) { app = Application.currentApplication(); app.includeStandardAdditions = true; var frontAppName = Application("System Events").processes.whose({frontmost: {'=': true }})[0].name(); var frontApp =…

I am going to buy a new computer. How do I determine how much memory and storage to get? Also how much clock speed (cores) should I get? —– Bob

I Am Leaving the US For several months and will not have access to the internet. Right now all my documents are stored in iCloud. What is the best way to get them back on my Mac? Thank you. —– Doug Brandt

I saw your recent video about battery health. I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro and it stays on my desk 99% of the time. In the video you said it was ok to leave MacBooks plugged into to power all the time to save on the battery cycle counts. I have a power…

Trying to clean up my inbox and can only select old messages one at a time. —– Bob L

When you Mac's hard drive is almost full, you can investigate and figure out what is using the space by simply using the Finder. There is no need to buy a third-party app to manage your hard drive. You start at the top and view all of your folders, digging…

As the years have passed I’ve always used MS Office to primarily keep in with the majority, and for document compatibility. I really don’t use it much, if at all now; I’m a Pages, Numbers & Keynote user. Of course I understand their cross compatibility,…

I have three Mac computers. An iMac (1TB disk), a MacBookPro (512GB disk) and a MacBookAir (256GB disk). The main computer I use is the iMac. All three are running the latest version of Mojave. I want to relocate my home directory to an external disk because I…

Mail on my Mac mini is growing way too fast and I’m running out of SSD space. How can I slim it down and recover some SSD? In earlier version of OS X rebuilding indexes etc seemed to help but I think that’s been consigned to history, I also recall using an…

I have a Pages file that I have been working on for 5 months, and now it will not open because the error message “the required index.xml file is missing”. How can I fix this problem? I have an Mac El Capitan 10.11.6 early 2008 model with a Pages ’09…

I have a spread sheet in Numbers containing a list of several hundred names, addresses etc. When I add several names etc. to the list, I Select the Column of names and go to Sort ascending. I keep the list in iCloud. The next time I open the list, it is not…

Many MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air owners want to know how to properly use and maintain their batteries. But there is a lot of bad information online. Learn what to expect from your MacBook's battery, what you should and shouldn't do to prolong battery…