Tag: movies
How to find the large files in your photo library.
My Apple photo library was way bigger than it should be. It turned out I had some very large videos in it. There’s no way of arranging your photos by size from within the Apple photos app. There is a way to browse these files outside of Apple Photos and arrange them by size. Here’s…
How to get good sound on a movie, livestream or webinar.
With COVID our church has moved to putting the talks online. The most important thing when recording talks is good audio quality. Your eyes can put up with poor video, but poor audio gets irritating very quickly. Thankfully it’s very easy to get clear sound. The key is to use an external microphone so that…
How to stop Apple mail opening when you are watching a movie
Since Catalina our movies keep getting interrupted by the Apple mail app randomly opening. One minute we are watching a movie then next moment half our scene vanishes and the Apple Mail appears! Thanks to my son Tim who worked out the solution below. If you close Apple mail (Apple-W or hit the red circle)…
How to watch movies with Apple TV that are on your computer
In Apple TV there’s an option called ‘Computer’ where you can stream movies that are stored on your computer. But these movies need to be shared from your computer to Apple TV. In Catalina Apple changed how you turn this sharing on and off from your Computer. Previously you need to go into iTunes and…
How to safely rip a DVD onto your computer in OSX
Last week my daughter was given a Spider-Man DVD for her birthday from her younger sister. We went to play it from our laptop and watch it on the Apple TV but because of the Disney copy protection it would not work! So we went out to my study and tried to watch it on…
Streaming TV and movies on demand without ads
If you watch TV on your Macbook or iMac here’s a great tip. I’m not sure what happens in the rest of the world, but in Australia when you stream TV on demand from stations like channel 10 or SBS you get between 30 seconds and 2 minutes of ads every 10 minutes or so.…
How to watch HDCP protected movies on a data projector in iTunes
iTunes has copy protection on their movies called HDCP which will not allow you to play iTunes rentals or purchases on some older data projectors. Thankfully there is a simple solution. You just need to watch an SD version of the movie and it does not have the HDCP protection. This is not mentioned…
How to watch a Google Play movie on Apple TV using the YouTube Apple TV App.
There is no Google Play App for the original Apple TV, but you can still watch Google Play movies using Youtube. When you do a search in Youtube, any movies that you have purchased in Google Play appear in the Youtube search results. So even though Apple TV does not have a Google Play App,…
How to extract a movie or photo out of a Keynote presentation – updated for Sierra
There have been many times that I have been given a keynote file from someone, and I wanted to get a movie or picture out of it and save it as a separate file. Here’s how to do it.
How to play Netflix movies on a data projector from a Mac
I recently tried watching a Netflix movie on a data projector and it would not work. I have subscribed to Netflix, but my data projector is old and Netflix have a copy protection on their service that won’t let you play to older data projectors. Thankfully there is a way around this. You just need…
How to turn on expert mode in Display Settings in El Capitan
One of the features I use regularly in the display settings of OS X is the adjustment of the gamma setting of my monitor. This is useful because it can lighten up dark movies when you are watching them on your Mac. The gamma setting is only available in the “expert” mode of display settings…
3 things you need to know about iCloud Photo syncing
Apple has updated their iPhoto app to ‘Photos’ and included some pretty cool iCloud syncing. All your photos are available everywhere all the time. It keeps smaller copies of the photos on your iOS device while allowing the larger original ones to stay in the Cloud and it can download the larger files to…
How to lighten up dark movies on your iMac or projector.
I noticed when watching movies on my 27 inch iMac that they are too dark especially in dark scenes. What I mean is that there are a lot of details in the blacks missing compared to watching on a normal DVD player. I’ve also noticed the same thing when watching a movie on a projector hooked up…
How to watch a DVD on Apple TV
I just set up my Apple TV and was very surprised that when I played a DVD from my Macbook it came out all grey on the Apple TV. This thread claims that you cannot play a DVD on Apple TV due to copyright. Here are two ways to get around Apple’s DVD viewing…
How to watch a movie from your computer on Apple TV.
Here’s how to stream a movie from you laptop or iMac to your Apple TV.
My favourite MacBook: the 13″ 2.5Ghz i5 MacBook Pro
This 13″ refurbished Macbook for sale on the US store for $999 is a good one. For those readers from Australia, it’s $1139 here from the Australian store. (If it’s out of stock – it’s worth checking back in a few days, they are released a few at a time.) Read on for why it’s so good.
How to copy a DVD movie to your ipad.
Here’s the process for how to copy a DVD to your iPad to watch on a plane or in the car.
How to watch different movie formats on your Mac (eg AVI or WMV) using VLC player.
are so many movies coming round in junk emails these days that you may be happy you can’t play WMV files. But just in case you want to look at one, here’s how.
How to convert a DVD to a Movie that you can watch on your iPad or iPhone or in Keynote.
Here’s how to copy a DVD to your harddrive and convert it to a movie that will play on your iphone, ipod or in quicktime on your computer.Â
3 things I don’t have an answer to!
I try to answer most Mac problems, but here are three things that have me stumped!
Does my Mac need a bigger Hard Disk?
Did you know that more free space your Hard Drive has the faster it will operate? Here’s how to see how full your macintosh computer hard disk is and what to do about it.