It's time to get a new computer. I'd like some kind of Mac. What's the smart thing to buy? [more inside]
posted on Sep 30, 2008 - 15 answers

My Black Macbook (five months old, running the latest OS) suddenly, inexplicably, cannot recognize my Airport Express (the new one) or find my Wireless Network. [more inside]
posted on Aug 15, 2008 - 25 answers

How should I go about formating and re-installing Mac OSX on a computer I've been upgrading and using for five years? I want to start fresh and clean with a new install of OSX, but with all my songs, photos, movies intact in iTunes and iPhoto on the new system. [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2008 - 12 answers

Is there a way to automagically back up my blackberry contacts and calendar on my iMac? Bluetooth and cordless would be swell. I'm running an intel Mac with the latest OS animal.
posted on Apr 19, 2008 - 6 answers

Where could I find the exact dates of the last ten (1997-2007) Macworld keynotes by Steve Jobs, done in San Francisco? I thought some apple history sites would list it, but rampant googling has only turned up info on the last couple years of shows.
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 4 answers

I have two fruit trees that seem to be ripening ...NOW. One is an apple tree and the other tree is a plum. I already know about making jam (which is what I'll probably do with the plums) and making apple butter/sauce. I have a few questions: [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2007 - 6 answers

What is this joke? ('concept of an apple'?) [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2007 - 6 answers

I seem to remember a cartoon (might've been a Looney Tune, with Daffy perhaps?) from my youth in which a pirate song that ends up with "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" was sung, but it ended instead with a conga-beat rhythm that went something like "yo ho ho and a bottle of" (and here's where the conga beat came in) "rum and apple cid-ER / rum and apple cid-ER / rum and apple cid-ER" (with the 'ER' being the beat). It's an obscure vague memory at the outreaches of my childhood, but that "rum and apple cid-ER" has become a real earworm for me the past few days. Any idea where this little comedy bit came from, and if it's on one of the online video services?
posted on May 29, 2007 - 11 answers

What Mac OS X application (or command-line utility) will join RAR files that come in the form filename.r01, filename.r02, etc.? [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2007 - 23 answers

I'm looking for a Mac OS X application that lets me quickly, without a clunky UI or 500 steps, tell the Mac to pop up an alert at specific times of day, with the ability of recurrence. [more inside]
posted on Mar 24, 2007 - 27 answers

Refurbished Mac: Good idea? Bad idea? [more inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2007 - 42 answers

Children's Story Filter: Help me find a story about the Apple family. [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2006 - 3 answers

Calling all cooks: Which type of apple turns brown the fastest when sliced? [more inside]
posted on Oct 22, 2006 - 15 answers

My Intel iMac burns DVDs quite slowly. Is there anyway to fix this? [more inside]
posted on Oct 16, 2006 - 9 answers

So, a MacBook at about a 17% discount - what could possibly go wrong? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2006 - 16 answers

I have a new 12 inch PowerBook with original power adaptor, my girlfriend has a 1 year old iBook with original power adaptor, I also have an old 15 inch 877 MHz "TiBook" PowerBook with an aftermarket power adaptor supposedly built just for that TiBook (at least I was told it would work with that TiBook.) Can we share power adaptors? Or should I only use my new power adaptor with my new PowerBook?
posted on Dec 6, 2005 - 7 answers

Ever since upgrading to QuickTime 7 and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), I've noticed that apparently what I think is the H.264 and H.267 codecs play very choppily on my machine. [more inside]
posted on Nov 2, 2005 - 11 answers

iPodFilter: Some songs on my iPod are not being played until the end. I did an extensive Google search and found lots of relevant solutions, but I already did half of them and some others seem strange. I'm now looking at the things I haven't tried yet, and have some specific questions. [more inside]
posted on Oct 29, 2005 - 13 answers

I install my new AirportExtreme card, but then my computer won't turn on. What is going on? [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2005 - 7 answers

How much does Apple Computer gross for every dollar spent on iTunes? [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2005 - 14 answers

I want to move a chunk of my music collection from a folder on one drive to a folder on another, without losing metadata in iTune's library and without reconnecting each and every file. [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2005 - 13 answers

Shoud I put my iBook to sleep, or shut it down, when I'm done with it? [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2005 - 18 answers

SafariFilter or AppleScriptFilter: I very often collect bookmarks of pages I'd like to look at in Safari, through the double magic of NetNewsWire and Saft. The problem is that I end up having one folder with 180+ bookmarks in it. I often then manually split them into chunks of 20 using cut and paste, but it strikes me that there's got to be an easier way to do that automatically via AppleScript. However, my google-fu fails me in that respect. Anyone know of a link to an AppleScript that takes one bookmark folder and splits it into folders with x number of bookmarks each in them? Or any AppleScript master and MeFi resident out here savvy enough to whip one up for me? I'll send you a cute picture of my cat sunning himself in a sunbeam, if you want. :)
posted on Mar 15, 2005 - 4 answers

How do I go about finding how many different number/letter combinations are possible with the 10-digit codes on the iTunes Pepsi bottles? [more]
posted on Mar 1, 2004 - 12 answers