How do I use windows with my mac

How do I use windows with my imac? I need to know which program I need.

use the built in boot camp or a program such as Parallels or VMware Fusion.

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How do I use icloud with one mac and two iphones

I have just got an iPhone 5.
My wife and I share a macbook pro
My wife has an iphone 4s and uses iCloud to sync photos etc.
I want to use iCloud too, so.....how do we use iCloud so:
- when we each take photos on our phones they sync to our mac
- our contacts sync (can we set preferences on our individual phones so we only get the contacts we want on our iPhones from a shared address book on the mac)
- we have individual calendars
Any advice much appreciated.
Thank you.

If you want to share the same photo stream so both your photos sync to your mac via iCloud you'll have to share the same primary iCloud account. Set this up in Settings>iCloud on both phones using the same Apple ID, and in System Preferences>iCloud on your Mac; then turn photo Stream to On. If you want to also using iCloud to sync with your shared Address Book on your Mac, but keep your contacts separate, you'll have to create two contact groups in Address Book on your Mac - one for each of you - and drag copies of the appropriate contacts into each group. Then turn iCloud syncing for Contacts to on on all your devices. To view just your own contacts you'll have to open the Contacts app on each of your phones, tap Groups, then check only your own contact group to view. When you add contacts on either phone, you'll have to add these contacts to the appropriate groups in Address Book on your Mac as you can't manage contact groups on your phone.
If you want to maintain your own calendars, the easiest thing to do is not to syncing your calendar with iCloud. If you did, your calendars would be merged in iCal on your Mac and the merged calendar would appear on both phones.
The important thing to know is that when you share an iCloud account any data you sync with the account will be merged and appear on all devices sharing the account. This will happen with your contacts too, but since you already have a shared Address Book on your Mac, it will stay up to date as you change/add/delete contacts on your phones. And by using contact groups you can filter your view to just your own contacts.

I have an old external drive with a firewall connection-How do I use this on my Mac with it's USB3 ports?

I have an old external drive with a firewall connection-How do I use this on my Mac with it's USB3 ports?

Does your Mac have ThunderBolt ports?
There are ThunderBolt to FireWire adapters.
As far as I know there are no FireWire to USB 3 adapters.
Allan

How to scroll up and down in IBM client access using windows 7 on mac running bootcamp

How to scrool up and down in Client Access 5250 (AS/400 emulator) using windows 7 on Mac running boot camp. The key board does not function within the client access 5250 session?

You can also share a printer between the Mac/PC as well as files and mounted Volumes, see the Tiger articles here
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/
You may want to use Bonjour for Windows on your PC
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/
Then there are VNC clients for Mac/PC that also allow you to actually control the other machine, if they aren't in the same room and you just need to check something quick that can be handy, it's kind of slow though for regular use.
The main benefit of partitioning is being able to have different versions of bootable OS on them. You can try out Leopard on a new partition, while keeping your Tiger partition intact, you can have a XP/Vista partition for parallels or BootCamp, etc... other than that drives are pretty much fast enough, having smaller partitions probably won't realize any significant speed ups over searching the whole large drive.

HT204053 how do i use icloud with mac os x 10.6.8?

how do i use icloud with mac os x 10.6.8?

how do i use icloud with mac os x 10.6.8?

HT204216 Used to highlight just the portion of an article that I wanted to print and press print selection only. How do you do that with a MAC?

Used to highlight just the portion of an article that I wanted to print and press print selection only. How do you do that with a MAC?

Depends to some extent what application you're printing from, and what printer you're using, but here's the dialogue box for ⌘P in Firefox -
Note the option to print selection only.
Haven't looked before, but I can't find anything similar in Pages print options.
It does appear in Word though.
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HT5636 using windows on a mac, I have changed from a wireless key pad to a USB keypad with numberkeys.

Using windows on a mac, I have changed from a wireless key pad to a USB keypad with numberkeys. But the number are not working.
Every thing works fine on the keyboard is IOS. But in windows the munber keys are not.
Any help please to fix.

Hi suellen 0,
Although this is an earlier article, this may have the solution:
Boot Camp 2.0, Mac OS X v10.5: Frequently asked questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1656
Specifically the section:
My keyboard's numeric keypad does not work in Windows.
Press the Num Lock key to enable the numeric keypad in Windows. If your keyboard doesn't have a key labelled Num Lock, try the Clear key.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Nubz

HOW CAN I USE FACETIME IN MY MAC TO SPEAK WITH MEXICO??

HOW CAN I USE FACETIME IN MY MAC TO SPEAK WITH MEXICO??

where are you located? in some middle eastern countries facetime is blocked by the government.

How can I use windows software on the IMac

How can I use windows software on my iMac? I know I can partition the hard drive but do I need to buy Windows OS?

You can use Boot Camp, which comes with your Mac and install a copy of Windows on a new partition, or you can use a virtual application like Parallels.

Best way to port all Windows XP files, applicaitons and data form my PC over to iMac and how to run those Windows apps on Mac?ns on Mac?

I have a Windows XP machine with apps, files and data. I want to get all that over to my Mac, and also run those apps under Windows XP or even Windows 7 on my Mac. Im wondering:
1. How best to get those files over to my Mac
2. How to run those apps and use my Windows based files/data on my Mac
3. How best to run Windows on my Mac....either partitiion my Mac's hard drive and boot up either Windows or MAC OS, or run some other program where I can easily switch back and forth form Windows to MAC OS, or perhaps get it all on an external hard drive, maybe partition that Windows/MAC OS and boot from that?
Thanks!

I agree you would benefit by using virtualizaiton software. Virtual Box is one alternative the commercial apps for doing virtualization are Parallels and VMWare Fusion which you also might be interested in for their support and updates.
Also you may benefit by book marking and using:
Mac 101 , Switch 101 & Find Out How Video tutorials
For your MS Office apps then I'd STRONGLY recommend using the native Office For Mac versions, you can find these on Amazon for less than $100 and then you can run the apps natively rather than having to lean on MS Windows. Also for your Financial and Tax software you also may want to use OS X apps too, for example I used Quicken for over 20 years (PC mostly and some Mac) but switched to iBank. Also for tax software I have used Quicken's Turbo Tax, this also runs natively on OS X.
In other words for your stated needs I don't see much reason to stay with MS Windows. You may have other considerations, if you do please state them, some may be real issues and some may be easily overcome.

How do i sync iphone with multiple macs? and few questions

Hi
I would appreciate if anyone would help me.
1. I would like to know how to sync my iphone with different macs. I have a macbook 13 and a macbook 15 and would like to use BOTH to be able to transfer data without losing them. (address, apps, photos and music)
would like to use this feature if I were to be suddenly on a trip and a friend would like to share some of his files (audio, apps, photos..etc)
2. is it possible to use internet tethering on multiple macs or example a "spontanious" mac? (ex. if I were suddenly to use internet through usb on a friends mac while we were on a trip but it were programmed on my mac at home)
3. my internet tethering is only working on one mac which I usually use to sync everything... i tried just using tethering through usb on the other mac wihtout any sync but somehow it didnt work... usually i just plug and play and start using firefox... by automatic detection...
4. is there also a way to copy files from iphone onto a mac which would not be one of my libraries?
5. why cant i use iphone like the ipod as a disk use?
I am aware that these things are somewhat possible because i have read quiet a few artivles but they are sadly enough not so current... any help appreciated.

#1: As has been said, you can't get around it. An iPhone cannot be synched to more than one computer for any media content (it can be for contacts and calendar information, I believe).
#4: You can transfer items purchased from the iTunes Store to another computer but only if you disallow synchronization and authorize that computer to your iTunes Store account. There are third-party utilities that can transfer non-iTunes Store content.
#5: there is no disk mode in an iPhone and no way to enable one, at least not in the sense of disk mode in earlier iPods. There are third-party apps that allow some file transfer to and from an iPhone.
I can't help with tethering questions.

How to create a window with its own window border other than the local system window border?

How to create a window with its own window border other than the local system window border?
For example, a border: a black line with a width 1 and then a transparent line with a width 5. Further inner, it is the content pane.
In JavaSE, there seems to have the paintComponent() method for the JFrame to realize the effect.

Not sure why your code is doing that. I usually use an ObjectProperty<Point2D> to hold the initial coordinates of the mouse press, and set it to null on a mouse release. That seems to avoid the dragging being confused by mouse interaction with other nodes.
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.geometry.Point2D;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.ChoiceBox;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.stage.StageStyle;
import javafx.stage.Window;
public class CustomBorderExample extends Application {
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
AnchorPane root = new AnchorPane();
root.setStyle("-fx-border-color: black; -fx-border-width: 1px; ");
enableDragging(root);
StackPane mainContainer = new StackPane();
    AnchorPane.setTopAnchor(mainContainer, 5.0);
    AnchorPane.setLeftAnchor(mainContainer, 5.0);
    AnchorPane.setRightAnchor(mainContainer, 5.0);
    AnchorPane.setBottomAnchor(mainContainer, 5.0);
mainContainer.setStyle("-fx-background-color: aliceblue;");
root.getChildren().add(mainContainer);
primaryStage.initStyle(StageStyle.TRANSPARENT);
final ChoiceBox<String> choiceBox = new ChoiceBox<>(FXCollections.observableArrayList("Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"));
final Button closeButton = new Button("Close");
VBox vbox = new VBox(10);
vbox.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER);
vbox.getChildren().addAll(choiceBox, closeButton);
mainContainer.getChildren().add(vbox);
    closeButton.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
        Platform.exit();
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 300, 200, Color.TRANSPARENT));
primaryStage.show();
private void enableDragging(final Node n) {
   final ObjectProperty<Point2D> mouseAnchor = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(null);
   n.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.MOUSE_PRESSED, new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
        mouseAnchor.set(new Point2D(event.getX(), event.getY()));
   n.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.MOUSE_RELEASED, new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
        mouseAnchor.set(null);
   n.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DRAGGED, new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
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        Scene scene = n.getScene();
        Window window = null ;
        if (scene != null) {
          window = scene.getWindow();
        if (anchor != null && window != null) {
          double deltaX = event.getX()-anchor.getX();
          double deltaY = event.getY()-anchor.getY();
          window.setX(window.getX()+deltaX);
          window.setY(window.getY()+deltaY);
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);

FAQ: How do I use Revel with the Elements 12 Organizer (Mobile Albums)?

FAQ: How do I use Revel with Photoshop Elements 12 Mobile Albums?
Photoshop Elements lets you upload your media to Adobe® Revel and then access it from any device. Media already present in your Revel libraries is downloaded into Elements Organizer, so that you can work with it. Adobe Revel is an app that lets you store your media in the cloud and share it privately or publicly. See the links below for additional informtion about using Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 12 with Revel.
If you check the option to make all your Elements photos and videos available in Mobile Albums, then Elements will move everything over to Mobile Albums, and upload it all to your Revel Library. Note that with mobile albums if you delete an image it will be deleted inElements and Revel.
If you have some mobile albums that you only want in elements and you have already made them mobile albums, there is a way to move them back. You can drag and drop a mobile album onto a local category. Media in the mobile album is downloaded as it exists in Revel and stored locally. Subsequentally, the downloaded media is deleted from Revel. You can select one or more of the photos in the Elements Organizer and right click on one of them and select Remove From Revel at the bottom of the list. That will move them out of Revel, and keep them in the Elements Organizer.
WHATS NEW:
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/whats-new.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/whats-new.html
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 12:
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/topics.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/elements-organizer_reference.pdf
http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-elements-12/
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-elements-12/setting-up-your-mobile-albums/
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/topics/getting-started-tutorials.html
http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-elements-12/
http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/photoshop-elements_reference.pdf
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/topics/getting-started-tutorials.html
PREMIERE ELEMENTS 12:
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/topics.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/sharing-publish-share-panel.html
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-elements-12/sharing-albums-on-the-web/
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-elements-12/setting-up-your-mobile-albums/

Also, bear in mind that few users of the full version of Photoshop are familiar with Photoshop Elements or Organizer, so many of us won't even know exactly what you mean.
I have to get back on this, Just recently bought Elements and Premiere for Mac (actually more for fun and possible use for a minor workshop, not for my professional workflow) and only had a short glance at it.
Just glanced at it again (still briefly) but there is a difference that you can't use in Bridge. Organizer has some shortcuts to fix images and creates a new version of the original.
This is not possible in Bridge. Also the Output Module in Bridge has a different approach to the create section in Organizer.
For me Bridge is the right tool and I'm sure "tweetybird" will benefit also after having learned a bit.
Especially the menu tools/Photoshop and the options in there will give better results (and far more control) to 'fix' ( I rather speak of optimize ) files to your satisfaction
But If you still need options from the create section that you will not have in the Output Module there is no objection to use Organizer for this by pointing it to the folder with finished files.
Its just a matter of the right tool for the right job

How can I uninstall Windows from my mac?

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Use the Boot Camp Assistant in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to return the drive to a single partition setup. If you were running Windows from a disk image, delete that image.
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