I did an iCal export on my iMac in “Export” format, moved it to an older computer and am trying to import the iCal data, but it’s taking forever. I mean, like it’s run overnight and it still hasn’t finished the calendar event import. That can’t be right, it shouldn’t be this slow! Is iCal broken? How the heck do I fix things?
I’ve been experimenting with the Mac Snow Leopard Screen Sharing capability and it’s really terrific for managing our workgroup server, but every time I want to run it I have to launch Server Tools, then select the server, then choose “Screen Sharing”. Isn’t there a better way?
How do I set up another photo album and how would I transfer pictures on my Apple iPhone 3gs to each corresponding albums? Thank you.
This is weird. I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard (specifically 10.6.2) running on my MacBook and want to install Quicktime Pro for some video work. I bought a license key off the Apple site but it says to go to the System Preferences and enter the data into the Quicktime preference pane. But, um, there isn’t one. What the heck??
Dave’s Answer:
Without much fanfare, Apple has continued to tweak and fiddle with its Quicktime software, moving it from one place to another, changing how it’s installed and updated, and even making it easy to have it vanish from your computer if you don’t install every single piece of Snow Leopard.
Poke around a bit in your favorite search engine and you’ll find that the Quicktime app you need to enter that license number is Quicktime Player 7, and it’s in the Applications -> Utilities folder.
Or is it?
For a lot of users, it’s nowhere to be found. Sure there’s Quicktime Player in your Applications folder, but that’s not the same app and it doesn’t have the ability to be upgraded via license key into Quicktime Pro.
So where do you get this mysterious Quicktime Player 7 utility? It’s on the Snow Leopard install DVD. Yes, that means you need to find your original OS install disk (or borrow one from a friend or colleague) and slip it into your computer. You don’t have to reboot, just open up the disk. You’ll see:
You probably never noticed, but see that folder “Optional Installs”? Open it. Now you’ll see:
Double click on “Optional Installs.mpkg” and after clicking through a bunch of default and informational screens — and entering your admin password once — you’ll finally get to a list of the optional installs included with Snow Leopard:
As I have done, choose “QuickTime 7″ and proceed. Won’t take long for you to be looking at this:
Now in your Utilities folder is “QuickTime Player 7″. Launch it, and choose File –> Registration. You’ll see this:
Enter your registration information as delivered from Apple and you’ll see this:
Score! Now you’ve figured out how to add QUickTime Player 7 to your Mac OS X system and upgraded it to be QuickTime Pro. Now, have fun!!
I don’t know what’s changed, but in the past, when I wanted to see revisions and changes to a document in Microsoft Word on my Mac it showed me what was inserted and deleted. Now, however, it has zillions of little balloons on the side of the document. What the heck? How do I change Microsoft Word so revision tracking shows up the way I prefer? Continue reading
I’ve been organizing photos with Apple’s iPhoto program since I first got my iMac, but I’ve wished for a long time that there was a way to tweak the pictures, rather than just organize them. Is there some trick to accomplishing this, or does iPhoto simply not give me editing and photo tweaking capabilities?
I’ve finally imported a few years worth of photographs into iPhoto and it’s very cool – I’m having fun organizing things – but in addition to how it has organized everything, I’d also like to have convenient access to photos by when they were taken. I don’t know whether that’d be a new Event or an Album or even a “smart album” (whatever that is), but what’s the easiest way to have a subset of my iPhoto photographs show up based on date?
I teach classes and like to have my handouts be as short as possible, so I will often print them “two up” or “three up” from PowerPoint or Keynote on my Mac OS X system. What I’d really like to do, however, is have the first page be full size and all the subsequent pages be the smaller slides, as a prebuilt PDF file, so that the title on the front looks good. Can I do that on my MacBook or iMac?
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What a gaffe! I wanted to get more information about the new TomTom turn-by-turn directions application for the Apple iPhone 3GS and clicked “Buy App” instead of the icon for the app. Next thing I know, I’ve just paid $99 for this app and it’s downloading onto my computer. Not good, not good at all! What can I do?
A friend of mine sent me a copy of his film on the computer as an “AVI” file and Quicktime complains and I can’t watch it on my Mac. Rather than look like a clueless twit I’d rather figure it out before I ask him for help: Quicktime complains that the movie is “not in a format Quicktime Player understands”. Can you help me out?