My mac displays like a negative picture any one knows how to fix it, my mac displays like a negative picture any one knows how to fix it

my mac book pro display is just turned into a negative picture sort of any one know how to change it back to normal one

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I would like to take a picture of a word on any mac display and transfer it over to my iPhone who will support this idea?

I would like to take a picture of a word on any mac display and transfer it over to my iPhone who will support this idea?

IntelJJQ wrote:
I would like to take a picture of a word on any mac display and transfer it over to my iPhone who will support this idea?
Then do so.
Nothing special, beyond an intelligent human being, is required to make this happen.
Read the User's Guide, it covers basic functionality of the device including syncing content from the computer to the device.
FYI, marking your own question as "solved" without actually solving, will generally get you ignored.

Why is a photo displayed sideways when emailed. When I take a picture and email it is received sideways and not like it appeared when sent. I have not had this problem when sending pictures from my IPad or Mac. Thanks for any help M

It seems when the photo is sent to someone it is received in a sideways position. I have resent after editing and rotating the picture but is still is not upright.
Any help would be great.
Thanks. M

In my case I take HD video with an Apple iPhone 4S and an iPad 2. These cameras can be just as easily oriented in any of four orientations by hand, or in various iPhone or iPad holders for mounting on a tripod. As long as I stay with Apple or Adobe products for my whole video handling process, I have no problem with software support for orientation
While there are countless software programs available today that display JPEG images, only a subset of them actually interpret the EXIF Orientation flag. Just like color management, many programs simply display the JPEG image as it is stored, and completely ignore any extra details stored in the file's metadata. The most important of these additional details is the Orientation flag, stored in the JPEG APP1 marker under EXIF IFD0.
More explanation of this is in the text below.
Briefly, Apple is doing it right, with their iPhone 4S and iPad 2, the way most High end video cameras do it. And they made sure that their apps looked at the appropriate flag to rotate the image before showing it. To understand this look at this site:
http://www.impulsead...rientation.html
This is a site that explains the whole deal. Apple and Adobe are looking at the flags for image rotation. Plex,and many others are not doing so. VLC for instance, DropBox is anpther example, Thunderbird is another example, the list is long.
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Would like to know if I can connect a macbook pro and link to a PC in any way and still access the macbook pro's files. Display is out/have black screen. I want to back up before I send for repair, but don't own another mac to restart 7.

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http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-NexStar-2-5-Inch-External-Enclosure/dp/B002JQNXZC/r ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1388312417&sr=8-2&keywords=2.5+enclosure
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Display like picture negative?

My cat sat on my keyboard and now the display everywhere looks like a picture negative. I have been trying to get it back to normal but have not figured it out yet. If anyone has an idea of how to fix it, please help me out. Thank you!

Zyriab wrote:
Recruit that cat to these forums!
Anyone calling for me?

I am trying to connect my mac book pro to the tv via a mini display port and a hdmi cable, the only picture that is on the tv screen is the background picture on my computer, any suggestions?

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My Mac won't read cyrillic in certain files and displays instead weird characters like this: "–í–µ-Ç–µ-Ä –ø-Ä–æ–¥–∏-Ä–∞–µ-Ç –¥–æ –∫–æ-Å-Ç–µ–π." Any ideas why this might be or how I can solve it?

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It looks like an encoding problem. You should try opening the file in a text editor where you can choose one of the various possible cyrillic encodings (utf-8, koi8-r, iso-8859-5, win-1251, MacCyrillic)

I have a problem, all the pictures turns grey when i open a document, i have a Mac computer if that can be any help.. Please can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong. It have not been like this before i have started now??

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I am thinking of updating to the newest version for my Mac Laptop. I have the 10.6.8 should I update to the Mountain Lion OS X? If I update will I loose all my data, like documents, music, pictures?

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First check the Compatibility of your Mac...
Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Then... Before attempting any Major Upgrade... get yourself an External Hard Drive... and create a Bootable Clone Backup of your current Hard Drive...
By far the easiest way to make such a Backup, is to use something like
SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
or CCC http://www.bombich.com/
That way, should anything untoward happen during the Upgrade,
you will NOT LOSE ANYTHING.
(Get an EHD that is at least equal to your current Drive...)
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Why does my ipad show pictures that look like a negative?

When I take a picture or look at certain sites on the Internet the picture that is displayed looks like a black and white negative. Any ideas on how to correct this? Thanks.

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Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
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Mini display port to HDMI - negative picture issue

I bought a new Macbook Pro 13,3 inch laptop last week and added a 120 GB ssd and 8 GB of RAM. I'm loving it!
Something I'm not loving however is the issue with the Mini Display Port / Thunderbolt when connecting with a MDP-HDMI adaptor. I watch a lot of movies and so hooking the computer up to my Sony BRAVIA 46 inch TV is quite important. Everytime I do the picture and sound are great! For about 5 minutes... then the picture goes "negative" you know that turqoise look?? Like a negative image. The sound is still there, the picture is just affected. To remedy I have to turn the tv off and restart the movie. Very annoying doing this ever 4-5 minutes!!
Is there a fix of some sort? Apple should really release an update for this.
Thanks!

sounds more like a hardware failure.
Try a different monitor to see if the problem persists, in which case that would point to a bad video card... or try a different source with your monitor(another computer), and if the problem persists, that would indicate a problem with the monitor

I feel like a sucker. I bought an iPAD2 at Fry's where I was told by the salesman that the non 3-G version does have GPS. It does not have GPS. Is there any way I can use the GPS on my Iphone or Garmin to display in my new mostly unuseable iPad2?

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AJ Green wrote:
My wifi only iPad 2 has GPS, and a compass/accelaerometer to determine which direction I am facing. You need to enable location services.
Your wifi-only iPad does not have GPS. Read the specs for your device.

A few days ago my TV show and movie displays went whacky-the shows are no longer in alpha order, there are multiple listings of the same show, the pictures are random-including album covers. I downloaded latest version. Any ideas??

A few days ago my TV show and movie displays went whacky-the shows are no longer in alpha order, there are multiple listings of the same show, the pictures are random-including album covers. I downloaded latest version & no change. Any ideas??

ME TOO.
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My mac displays like a negative picture any one knows how to fix it, my mac displays like a negative picture any one knows how to fix it

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