I get a spate of questions and while each is a gem , some can be answer with just a few Good Book . Rather than issue those few words and endure the examination of my bettor — who like figure a column that ’s not shadow by its surrounding advertising — I save these things for a sentence when I can underprice themen masse . Now is that time .

Missing Voice Memos

We begin with reader Worth Gretter who write :

I have a fourth generation iPod touch . The Voice Memos app is not on it , although I would await it to be since this model has a built - in microphone . I ca n’t find a way to download it , apparently since it should already be on my touch sensation . What ’s going on here ?

Voice Memos is one of those Apple apps that you ca n’t delete , so it ’s there , you ’re just not look in the right place . With iOS versionsomethingorotherApple localize it in the Utilities brochure alongside Contacts and Calculator . Tap this leaflet and you ’ll receive Voice Memos .

tip for the future : As you add more apps to your iPod you ’ll likely lose track of some of them . Go to the first Home Thomas Nelson Page and swipe to the right ( or iron out the Home clitoris once ) to take in the Search page . Enter the name of your app and when it appears in the list , tap it to launch it .

Missing Safari warning

And then there ’s referee Who Wishes To Not Be key :

Somehow Safari no longer warn me if I attempt to close all my yellow journalism ( unfortunately , a mistake I seem to make at least once a day ) . How do I re - enable this base hit feature ?

Here ’s how it works under Snow Leopard : Under the Safari carte choose Preferences and in the resulting window clack on the Tabs item . turn on the Confirm Before Closing Multiple Tabs or Windows choice .

This setting is missing in the Lion version of Safari . However , in the causa of such an “ oops ” mo , just choose either History - > Reopen All Windows From Last Session or Reopen Last Closed Window ( depending on which is most appropriate for your situation ) . Your windowpane , with its open tabs , will reappear .

Using a PC drive with a Mac

Reader Margo Bangert is locomote from a microcomputer to a Mac and writes :

I want to get hooey off of my Dell and its external USB heavy drive and on to my Mac . Do I have to put everything on a quarter round driving and transfer it over that style ?

Only if you ’re the form of person who relish sieve their good morning Rice Krispies by size . Transferring a hatful of data via quarter round drive would be tedious to the extreme . No , all you have to do is move the stuff from your PC to the extraneous hard drive attach to it . Then unmount the drive on the PC and jacklight it into your Mac . It will mount and you’re able to then simply imitate the datum from it to the Mac . This is possible because Macs are able to mount campaign formatted for PCs . ( The reverse ai n’t needs so . )

Keep an eye on your opponent

Reader Pat Rooney writes :

I would like to play a game with my grandson while I am iChatting or FaceTiming him . Is this possible ?

In most cases on the Mac , yes . Just leave the FaceTime or iChat windowpane undetermined with your video schmoose play and you should be able-bodied to see and discover each other . Where you ’ll have difficulty is with game that take over the entire screen . In such grammatical case you ’ll mislay the video window .

Re - download the Lion installer

Reader Bill Windborn write :

I buy Lion from the App Store , of line , and set up it on my Mac Pro with Snow Leopard on base , but I did n’t save a copy of the Lion installer . When I assay to download it again I ’m told that I have it , yet I do n’t see it anywhere on my Mac . What do I do ?

My colleague , Dan Frakes , who is the resident business leader of all that is installing OS X Lion , writes :

If you ’re adjudicate to download the Lion installer onto a Mac that ’s already running Lion ( either the GM or the official release ) , the Mac App Store will claim that Lion is already installed and , again , foreclose you from downloading it . prove these tricks :

Option+click the Buy App clit in the Mac App Store . If that does n’t work , switch to the Mac App Store ’s chief page and then Option+click the Purchases clitoris in the toolbar . If that does n’t act upon , quit the Mac App Store app and then hold down the Option key while set up the Mac App Store again . One of these three procedures should get rid of the “ Installed ” status for Lion and permit you download it . )

You ’ll also require to take a gander at his late updatedCreate a Bootable Lion Install Drive for Newer Macs .

Updated 10:30AM to admit information about Safari ’s warning behavior under Lion