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Q>I hate the DVD player in Lion. It covers part of the video every time you
move the mouse and it doesn't feature an eject button, and the OS won't let me move it. How do I get a DVD to automatically launch the Snow Leopard version of DVD player? - A. Mboya, CA
A>Grab a copy of the old version and stick it in an appropriately named folder in
your apps folder. Launch Automator, create an application, choose Launch Application from the list, then use the browser to select to the older DVD player app, then save the app (I have a Scripts folder on my drive). Go to System Preferences / CDs & DVDs and in the DVD insertion pop-up choose the Automator app you just created. That's it.
Q>The gray background in Photoshop CS6 is hugely annoying. How do I get rid
of it? – X. Poe, AL
A>Go to the Window menu and uncheck Application Frame. And yes, it can be annoying, but the reason it is there is to provide a neutral background for accurate color perception. If you need to show a neutral background, type control+ to enlarge the image then type control option- to restore the image size while maintaining the larger window size.
Q>I have a unibody MacBookPro with a dead hard
drive. I can't see paying a ton of cash for an Apple Genius to install a hard drive but I am more than a little intimidated by the thought of doing it myself. I wouldn't even know where to begin. – C. Cummins, CO
A>Go to iFixit.com. They have highly detailed step-by-step instructions on how
to repair just about any Mac around and they can sell you the tools as well. Take a look at the instructions before you do anything else and decide if this is within your skill set. Chances are that it is.
Q>My startup drive was trashed and I need to retrieve an email list from address
book but I can't do this without exporting it from my trashed address book. I have a backup of my email folder but it only allows me to export names to address book one at a time. I have over 100 addresses in the group. What do I do? – N. Park, LA
A>There are probably other ways, but one way is to open a sent email that
contains all the names and addresses. Copy and paste them into a text document. For the first line, type "first,last,email" (no spaces) and hit return. If your original email list includes the
name of the recipient followed by the email address, do the following:
Do a find and replace to replace the period after ".com." ".net." or whatever with a line return, then do a find and replace to change ", " (that is, a comma followed by a space) into a comma. Do another to get rid of the arrow brackets enclosing the email addresses. If a listing is missing a first and/or last name, insert a comma where the missing name should be (for example, "John