IMac (Intel) :: Text In Dropdown Menus / Tool Bar And Labels Pixelate Then Disappear
Dec 12, 2014
Late 2009 27" iMac, 16GB RAM
The very first sign of any problem would occur when I would be scrolling down a page and it would stop, then go, then stop, then go.
I ran Verify Disk In Disk Utility and it said that the disk was OK. Then I ran Repair Permissions. It found a couple of things, repaired them and then it said Permissions repaired. I ran Repair Permissions again and it came up clean.
So I restarted and every thing seemed to be OK. I opened Safari, went to one of my favorite sites and was looking through there for a couple of minutes, then suddenly some of the text in the Tool Bar pixelated, and then some of the text in the site that I was on did the same, and then all of the text pixelated. I clicked on and dropped down the menu to Shut Down and all of the text in the menu were pixelated.
I reinstalled Yosemite with no change to the problem. Then I did an erase and reinstall from Time Machine again to no avail. At this point I am thinking that it is a hardware problem, or am I overlooking something.
Info:
iMac 27-inch Quad Core i5, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Memory 16GB 1067 MHz DDR3
I've lost the drop down tool bar at the top of my screen. (Lowers when you position the mouse arrow at the top of the screen).I'd like to know how to get it back! (Re-Enable it).
Info: Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Intel Duo Core, w/ 2 GB SDRAM
I Recently changed the password for mail, on iMac. I can still read my mail, but the drop down keeps appearing, asking for my password, then telling me it's incorrect.
My iMAC is about 18 month old, and I had a software upgrade notification for my Safari browser.When I clicked on it to upload, a program from dll.ultimatesoft was seen on the screen, and asked me to approve and install. That message will not go away. The drop down box bounces up and down the screen. I re-booted, but it is locked. I tried typing in a different web address, and was semi-successful, till the ultimatesoft screen took over again in 60 seconds.
I'm using Classic Layout in Mail.app - in the message list the column "Flag" shows all flags/labels as text, i.e. instead of an orange flag icon it shows "Orange". This is rather strange and uses too much space in the list - is there a way to change to icon view? In Mavericks it shows a coloured flag icon.
I tried to find a menu command or Mail.app preference to change this, but couldn't find one. Not sure but I think in OS X 10.10.0 Mail.app showed flag icons; I have OS X 10.10.1 installed.
Info: MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 13.3"; 2.8 GHz i7 (late 2011)
I am not being able to print address labels from Contacts with the correct salutation, e.g.
Mr & Mrs A Smith Anyroad Anytown etc
All I seem to be able to do is print Adam Smith or A Smith which is fine if he wasn't married to a fireball who would be mightily upset not to be included in the address label particularly at Xmas - neither do I want to print Adam & Fireball Smith ...
how to print multiple return address labels on my new Mac. My computer is state of the art....and I am not....but very willing to learn.... I just bought Office Depots 2/3 in x 1 3/4 in return address labels that has room for 60 labels per sheet and is the same size as the Avery 8195 and 5195. or 3M 3200-Q and 3100-P..
Info: iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), HP Photosmart 7520
Just bought a new 27" screen iMac. The menu bar and drop down menu text is much to small for me to see without leaning close to the screen. how to customize the text to a larger size. This is an issue for any program I open.
I’m trying to use OS X Mavericks to dictate a note to my laptop. I clicked System Preferences from the Apple icon, then Accessibility button and then Speakable Items. After that I clicked Settings, but I don’t know how to TURN ON Speakable Items, which I see selected. I went on to press Listening Key on the Feedback window and said, “Hello, what’s happening?” I didn’t see it as typed text anywhere, as I expected to. I also selected “Open Speech Commands.” Again nothing happened!
I also have the same problem with the green text underline. I don't know how to get rid of it. How to get rid of the Downlite. The instructions are too complicated for me.
I am trying to create a text shortcut on my imac similar to that I have on my ipad and iphone. For example,I use my Face book web address a lot in dicuments and want to just type fb and it appears much like I do on my ipad?
Info: iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iMac i5 27" 12gb ram
I am experiencing the following time machine issue: When I invoke time machine, the grey bar in the bottom, which should display text labels "cancel" and "restore" or something on the buttons, doesn't show any text in my case. It used to do this correctly. I have 10.5.6 installed - is this a known issue?
cut and paste with mouse different text selections at the same time. I have tried many hot keys to select different sentences on different paragraphs at the same time and i couldn't.
I would like to backup my dvd's I want to rip the entire dvd including menus. My problem is mac the ripper is not doing so well with new movies i get errors about padding sectors the playback does not work. So whats the best way to rip the full dvd I have tried handbreak but I don't see a way to rip the entire dvd with menus and such.
Mac screen resolution is getting higher and higher, which is nice, but the downside is that we seem to have lost "what you see is what you get." I have set the default document size of Text-Edit to about the size of an 8 1/2 x 11 document, which fits easily on the screen. I have what appears to be a single page of text. It all easily fits in the document window. The headline fits across the width of the page. But when I choose Print, the print preview shows that the text is going to spill out onto two sheets of paper. I exit out of the print document and reduce the text size so that it all prints out on one sheet of paper. The problem is, the size of the text onscreen is now TINY! It looks like it's about 6 point while the printed text looks like it's about 12 point! No WYSIWYG! When I revert the document to the way it was originally, where it was going to print out on two sheets of paper, and then hold my printed document up next to the screen, the printed size matches the onscreen size almost perfectly, even though, if printed out at this size, the text would spill out onto two pages and be huge. In other words, 18 point size text prints out at about 12 points and 12 pt text prints out at about 6pts, so there's about a 6pt difference in how text looks onscreen and how it prints out. Again, No WYSIWYG! My older Macs had much lower-resolution screens, but text printed out at about the same apparent size on screen. I know the original Macs had 72dpi screens so that they would closely match the printed size of text, and I like the fact that monitors keep getting better, but is there a way around this problem of printed text not matching the size of onscreen text?
I have been trying to print out a page of labels using either pages or the address book and have so far failed. I am new to Apple products; I can do it really easily in Word etc.
I'm starting a business that will require the creation and printing of labels for jars and bottles. I'm told that the MAC is the best tool to have for this endeavor but so far I have been unable to locate an app or other software specifically for this purpose.
When special authorization is required, following dialogue pops up:I can type my password and so on. But even the labels are missing, thus it's kind of irritating.
Info: iMac (Intel) & MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
