HELP ME! BEFOR I HIT MY MAC AGAINST THE WALL

I am having a huge issue every time I go on the internet. Everytime I click on a new link, and new tab opens up with (dating, mac backup, mac repair, backupmypc, and video download sites) HOW DO I GET RID OF the or stop them from popping up. Is there anything I can run to get rid of them. Please help its driving me up the wall. Also I have a Mac Book Pro 15' Retina Display 2012

This should save your Mac from certain destruction.
Please download and run "AdwareMedic" at the site below to remove adware. The App has been created by one of the long time contributors to this site.
http://www.adwaremedic.com/
To prevent this type of adware from reappearing on your computer, check out the article below.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7471

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please please can sombody help i cant understand apple good mind to change items

I have NEVER had a password for my iphone and I bought it outright. It asked me for a passcode and now I have been locked out of my phone. I will have to restore it but this is very annoying. Why ask me for a passcode when I have never had one? And why change my settings straight up after I download ios7?
Very frustrating.

I Want to Throw My SONY TRV350 against the wall!

I HATE it!
(I have another camera now, but still...)
I have hours and hours and even more hours of 8mm, Hi8, and D8 footage that I am unable to capture into iMovie because my stupid camera is a peice of junk. Oh it works fine alone and without any connections but try to connect it to iMovie via Firewire and nodda... try to pass through via the analog connections (like you would a VCR) and the stupid picture is in BLACK and WHITE!!!!!
Forgive the rant, but maybe someone here has found a solution.
note: Doesn't work with Final Cut either.
Dwaine

Before you throw it against the wall.
Do these steps, as I described to another guy a minute ago.
With the computer off, AND the camera off, plug in the fire wire cord to the camera (4-pin) and to the computer (6-pin). Then turn on your camera FIRST and put the control knob in play mode.
THEN START YOUR COMPUTER and open iMovie.
Then switch iMovie to camera mode. A blue screen should come up saying "camera connected". That is all there is to it, plug and play no problems.
I have on several occasions found that the camera will not show as connected in iMovie.
If this happens, leave the camera connected, plugged in with fire wire, and in play mode. Restart the computer. Open iMovie and see if your camera is recognized in iMovie.
WARNING!!!!!!!
Plugging and unplugging the camera (Called "Hot Plugging") can sometimes solve this issue HOWEVER every-time you do this you risk frying the fire wire port on your camera and/or your computer.
I FRIED THE FIREWIRE PORT ON MY $1200.00 PANASONIC CAMCORDER.
Now my camera cannot be recognized by my computer rendering the camera useless for video editing. Repair costs for video cameras out of warrantee are OUTRAGEOUS. So I am looking for another camera.
I hope this did not happen to you.
If your fire wire port is fried, then you may throw it against the wall.
In my case, Panasonic wants about $265.00 up front (NON REFUNDABLE) just to look at the camera, no guarantees that it can be repaired for less $$$ than the purchase price of a NEW High Definition camera.

Help me before i shoot my mac please

i have way to many questions to ask to a forum/discussion group & finding out how to learn a mac system is not easy, all i want to do is understand this computer, how it works & why it does the things that it does because overall i think i hate mac's. is anybody aware ofa class or a program SOMETHING that i can learn my macbook pro on?? i have no idea how or what so many things do from terminal to stacks too the whole computer. i just want a good source that really teaches me my computer indepthly not surface deep tutoral that is outdated & really does not apply.
thanks for listening

Hi Rich,
I would suggest that you download the user manual. Also, every window has a Help selection on the toolbar. The Apple website (this very one) has a Support tab that has a Search window. I have had excellent success using all three of these resources to answer quetions I have about my devices and apps.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
GB

HELP! Before I throw my MP560 out the window!

I purchased a MacBook Pro in August 2010, and along with it the Canon MP560. I have it setup to print wirelessly from my macbook to the printer. Everything was going great until about a month ago. I can not get it to print, an error pops into the utility, saying "A communication error has occurred." I checked my system update and according to it, all my software is up to date.
I've also been having problems that the printer will print 1-2 inches of the page (very slowly), once it even printed 3/4 of the page before stopping...then gives "A communication error has occurred. Error Number : 306 A communication error has occurred. Make sure that the printer is plugged in, powered on, and properly connected to your computer. Then try printing again." Any ideas what is going on? Of course it is connected because it prints part of the pages.
Due in part to some bad advice I've read on here I can't even get the D&*) thing to work now and I'm about to chunk it! So if you can help, STEP BY STEP for a non-computer person like me, that would be great!

First thing, don't bother looking for an Ethernet port as Star1 suggested. This model does not have one.
The 306 communication error will occur if the wireless signal strength between the printer and router or Mac and router is poor. In most cases it is the printer at fault rather than the Mac. And this would explain the portion of the page only printing, as the machine fails to keep its connection to your wireless router.
You can check the signal strength by opening Safari and selecting the Bookmark icon in the toolbar. Within the sidebar that appears in Safari you will see Bonjour. Select this and the right pane should show the MP560. Select this and Safari will open the MP560 web page. The first page will show the Signal Strength and Link Quality. If either of these are below 50% then trying moving the printer closer to your wireless router and then refreshing the MP560 home page. If moving the printer closer to the router does not improve either measured value then try turning off the printer for a minute and then back on again. Now check the values again. If the values still fail to show better than 50% then I would suggest that the wireless channel being used by your router is changed. So if this is the case then reply and we'll explain the next steps.
If the wireless signal strength and link quality are above 50% then the printer queue can be added again. To ensure you have the latest driver for this model I suggest you download and install the [Canon v2.4.1 Printer Update|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL899] from Apple. This will update the MP560 printer driver to v10.36.2.0.
With this update installed open Print & Fax and select to Add and select the Default icon. The MP560 scanner component should appear quickly, showing Bonjour Scanner in the Kind column. If you don't have the scanner installed we can add this later. With the scanner showing wait a bit and the printer component should also appear, showing canonijnetwork in the Kind column. Select this and the Print Using menu should automatically change to Canon MP560 series. Click Add when it does.
With the printer queue added you can open a document and try printing to the MP560. If it works then you can add the scanner. If it doesn't print and gives an error then please reply.

Help.. before i throw this thing out the window

I've had my macbook pro for about 2 weeks now... at first the internet was running insanely fast; you know, as it should have been. Lately, however, when i try to get online the pages wont even load, and when they do load, they load half-assed. Half the pictures don't show, only 3/4 of the text... i was wondering if anyone knew a way to fix this. If there is a way to clean the computer.. i dunno just get it running to what it was like when i first got the thing.. thanks.

Here's a few questions, some which others above have implied:
1) Click the Airport icon in the Menu bar (the icon that looks like waves spreading in a v-shape in the top right-hand corner). Are you connected to YOUR network? Sometimes your MacBook Pro may connect to another network, and that network may have a low signal strength or a slow internet connection.
2) Try using Firefox or another browser to see if the problem doesn't lie with Safari.
3) Try connecting your laptop directly to the router using an Ethernet cable. If the internet runs fine, you may have a problem with your Airport card.
4) I'm no expert to know if this will help you, but the following has helped with a few software glitches I've had. Run Disk Utility, select your Mac partition (NOT the hard drive, and be especially careful if you have a Boot Camp partition), click the First Aid tab (which it probably opened into), and click repair disk permissions (this may take several minutes). Try out Safari to see if its any faster.
I have no idea whether force quitting any application would affect internet speed. But like I said earlier, I'm no expert. You have a Mac, so you don't really NEED an anti-virus program, but if you have to or insist, the best av program would be a free one. See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6743168&#6743168
or just search these forums for antivirus. But again, you don't really need it as many posts throughout Apple Discussions have said they cause more problems than they fix. Hope I was able to help and that your problems get solved soon. The MacBook Pro is a wonderful, powerful computer and it's a shame that your having problems with a slow connection speed.
-AHeneen

Help with configuring back to my mac on the time capsule?

I just found out about the "back to my mac" feature within the time capsule. I followed the directions on how to set it up, but I have a problem. it says that I am supposed to enable the nat port mapping protocol. I went to the internet tab in the TC and changed connection sharing to share a public ip address, and then enabled the Nat protocol but when I hit update, it says that I have to correct 3 problems:
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3. The wireless device is setup to allow configuration over the ethernet wan port, which decreases network security. It gives me the option to unclick the allow setup over wan box, or I can simply choose to ignore this problem.
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Please Help: Brand new to Logic and Mac at the same time

Dear Board,
I joined the Mac family yesterday and have done pretty well with getting Logic and Cubase 4 installed on the Mac. (It's like trying to learn Spanish when you're from Alabama)
However, when I assign an instrument track to ESX sampler, no libraries or presets come up. I can hear one sound, but when I pull down the menu to load another sound, there are no other sounds to be found. Do I have them stored in the wrong place or did they not automatically load when I installed Logic?
Specifically, I am looking for a decent acoustic piano sound, but can't make it work.
I migrated from Logic 5 on PC to this setup yesterday, so it's all new to me. Any help you can give will be appreciated.
Thanks,
B3
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) Logic 7.2

Well a fellow Las Vegan, that is something I
havent seen since I have been on this forum.
Anyway welcome and good choice to go with
Logic Pro 7. This app is a constant challenge.
First I have to ask an obvious question, did you
install the contents disc? That is the one with all
the samples on it. Since you have been using a
different version, I assume you know how the
EXS works so that should not be the issue.
If you click on the black area no menus come up?
Or do empty menus come up? We will get it going,
this sounds like misplaced files. Phil

Hitting my head on the wall PLEASE HELP!!!

i noticed when i downloaded songs from limewire they would not update to itunes and when i sign onto itunes i get this messege
the registry settings used by itunes drivers for importing and burning cd's and dvd's are missing..this can happen as a result of installing other cd burning software..please reinstall itunes
everytime i delete and reinstall itunes i get this..what the **** they talkin about..for burning cd's i use roxio do they want me to deletee that or what?also i just deleted roxio so now i have no cd burning software at all and it still tells me this and yes i have deleted everything and reinstall and it still does this..please any help or suggestions?

no when i install it my black ice is on and my avg 7.0 is on so the whole time when im downloading my avg is showing me pop ups asking me do i want to terminate or allow so offcourse i hit allow when im downloading the itunes program from the disk that came with the ipod..why am i supposed to disabble all that stuff?

OK Have iTunes on my PC all files converted to MP4 for the vids. It is recognised as it goes on but the new drag and drop does not like my iPad or wont copy files over. Any ideas before I smash it against the wall and buy an android so I can play stuff on

Why wont my iPad accept MP4 Files in my iTunes library unless I sync it. I soooooooooooooo miss drag and drop to the side.

Have your tried using the View menu item Show Sidebar?
This will restore the function of iTunes 11 to what you find familiar.

PLEASE someone help me before i throw this thing out the win

edit - whew. good thing nobody saw this post. it was mean. i figured it out.. finally :\
now i just gotta figure out how to get the tracks in order!! any ideas?
Message Edited by no-sweat on 02-08-2005 07:48 AM

You could try using simple software like Tag and Rename, very usefull to sort out the tags, Creative Zens micros and Touch's all need the tracks to be proporly tagged, Album, Track, and if you do a whole album and want the tracks in the same order as they are in the album you will have to edit the title so it has a number 0, 02 ect infront of every song, easidly done with good tagging software.
HTH
JJ

Motion 4 + layered PSD files = me banging my head against the wall

I posted this same question in the other M4/PSD file problem, but it was marked as answered (and the answer isn't working for me).
I'm having a similar problem, but changing the resolution to the exact max of 2896x2896 doesn't work for me...and neither does any smaller resolution for some reason.
Today, my layered PSD file is at least not experiencing the crazy tile-effect you included in your posted images, but it is now:
1) always converting the top layer of the PSD file to a flattened image of the whole file.
2) ignoring/mutating my alpha channel information, as areas that should be transparent and smoothly masked off are now opaque and/or blocky.
My images are large, but I need to keep them large for dollying in real closely when i fly a camera through the scene. This is not a problem in After Effects, but I also need to do a lot of these 2.5D animations and several need particle/replicator effects... and I just work much much faster in Motion than AE. I don't remember having this problem with Motion 3 at all, but I can't say I've done a scientific comparison (nor do I want to uninstall M4 for M3).
My system info can be found here:
[IMG]http://i36.tinypic.com/2n744di.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i33.tinypic.com/28cks42.jpg[/IMG]
Original PSD file info:
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/amdr9v.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i36.tinypic.com/99kv1g.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i33.tinypic.com/3355w8x.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/1zb6y3m.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/9i5rhz.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/es40v4.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/2e3popz.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/jrv8tz.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/28rh6hs.jpg[/IMG]
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Thank you!

I can't believe I didn't see that! I scanned them in 24-bit color but they are B&W images anyways, so I'm not sure why or how they ended up as 8-bit greyscale... maybe has something to do with the lousy HP dinosaur-of-a-scanner and it's weird proprietary HP interface (couldn't get it to interface with PS4 and don't use it enough to fuss with it).
Thanks!
I think that was about the quickest/least-frustrating help forum experience ever =)

Banging my head against the wall

I am working on a program to calculate bmi. I have input to read in age range and gender. When I enter input to look at both genders, it does not calculate the total patients or calculate the averages. Any help would be appreciated.
//prompts user for inputs
System.out.print("Enter the file name: ");
System.out.flush();
filename = console.nextLine();
System.out.println("What age range would you like to examine?");
System.out.print("Enter starting age: ");
System.out.flush();
agelooking = console.nextInt();
System.out.print("Enter ending age: ");
System.out.flush();
agelooking2 = console.nextInt();
System.out.println("What gender would you like to examine?\n"
+ "Enter F for Female; M for Male; B for Both genders: ");
genderlooking = console.next().charAt(0);
//reads in gender and age range
while (inFile.hasNext()) {
//read in gender
gender = inFile.next().charAt(0);
if (genderlooking == gender){
//read in age range
age = inFile.nextInt();
// filters logic for age
if(age >=agelooking && age2 <=agelooking2) {
totalpatients++;
//reads in height and weight
weight = inFile.nextInt();
height = inFile.nextInt();
//calculates bmi
bmi = (weight * weightkg) / Math.pow(height * heightm, 2);
totalbmi = bmi + totalbmi;
//takes bmi calculation and filters into 4 categories
if (bmi < 18.5) {
underweight++;
if (bmi >= 18.5 && bmi <= 24.9) {
normal++;
if (bmi >= 25.0 && bmi <= 29.9) {
overweight++;
if (bmi >= 30) {
obese++;
} //end while
//calculates averages
averagebmi = totalbmi/totalpatients;
averageUnderweight = underweight/totalpatients;
averageNormal = normal/totalpatients;
averageOverweight = overweight/totalpatients;
averageObese = obese/totalpatients;
//writing results to output file
outfile.println("Results of the BMI analysis for " + practiceName + ": \n\n");
if (gender == 'm' || gender == 'M')
Gender = "Male";
else
if (gender == 'f' || gender == 'F') {
Gender = "Female";
else
Gender = "Both";
outfile.println("Patients of " + Gender + " gender in age range of " + agelooking
+ " to " + agelooking2);
outfile.println ("Number of patients examine: " + totalpatients);
outfile.printf ("%.1f percent Underweight%n", averageUnderweight * 100);
outfile.printf ("%.1f percent Normal%n", averageNormal * 100);
outfile.printf ("%.1f percent Overweight%n", averageOverweight * 100);
outfile.printf("%.1f percent Obese%n%n", averageObese * 100);
outfile.printf("Average BMI: %.1f",averagebmi);
inFile.close();
outfile.close();
System.exit(0);
}

Because this line will never be true is you are looking for both genders, unless one of the records in teh file was entered as B for gender (Hermaphrodite?)
if (genderlooking == gender){
//Change that line to this
if(genderlooking == 'b' || genderlooking == 'B' || genderlooking == gender){

I have a Macbook Air purchased in 2011 in the US. I am traveling in South Africa and am unsure if I need a step down voltage converter before I plug my laptop into the wall to charge it (using an outlet adapter). Am I ok to just plug in?

So standard electrical output from wall outlets in the US is 110V - 120V, and standard output from wall outlets in South Africa is 220V - 240V. In SA I know I can plug in an iPhone using the iPhone charging cable and it will automatically step down the voltage, thus preventing my phone from overheating. I cannot plug in a hairdryer or flat iron without step down voltage converter in SA. Can I use the charger that came with my US 2011 Macbook Air and plug into a wall outlet in South Africa or do I need to purchase a step down voltage converter in order to charge my laptop while in SA?

You only need a plug adaptor as long as the voltage is between 100 and 240 volts.
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I'm gonna throw it against the wall!!

I've only had my ipod for about two weeks, and already, it's messed up. (It's the newest iPod video, the black 30gb)
It was working fine, and I hooked it up to my computer to add some more music files. My screen saves went on, and actually went to the XP screen listing the users...which apparently caused my ipod to freeze.
Now, when I connect the USB cable, the little arrow pops up on the bottom right tray (the green arrow icon), but iTunes doesn't start automatically and when I open it, it doesn't register my iPod.
My iPod stays constantly on the "Do Not Disconnect" screen, and the hard drive is spinning, but that's all it does. And it also erased all of my songs, except for one at some point...
I'm frustrated, and I bought it from Target. I was considering just taking it back and seeing if they'd do an exchange...Unless someone can tell me how to fix it!

Have you Tried the 5R's yet? http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/ Sounds like you may need to restore it using the iPod Updater.

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