17" MBP + VGA adapter - reliable? A customer of mine has a 17" MacBookPro (c.8mo). Looking at Apple's website, they're going to need the MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter in order to actually use this for presentations - but the comments on that page are Somewhat Underwhelming as to the reliability of the adapter at doing it's basic job. What'... 18 Mar 2010 08:11
Skype Opinions I'm thinking of using Skype. It seems to be a simple drag & drop app, which is good. Is there anything I need to be wary of? E.g., will it set some process running in the background that consumes bandwidth even after closing the app? Cheers, R. ... 18 Mar 2010 04:51
Mac Update bundle is up. Greetings, As the title - looks like a worthwhile one this time. http://www.mupromo.com/ -- Regards Eddie ... 22 Mar 2010 10:32
Copy-paste problem. Ever since I started using MacOS X, I've found that copy-paste does not work reliably. Does anyone know why it is that sometimes, activating the copy command results in `Nothing happening'? - so that the paste command gives whatever was *last* in the paste buffer? Repeating the copy command often results in `i... 27 Mar 2010 09:39
MacZot / theMacSale / SuperCard I don't suppose anyone bought theMacSale with SuperCard in it, wants the other stuff and would like to sell on SuperCard? I was going to buy it, stupidly thought I had until the end of March and dallied too long. Now it's finished. Duh! -- Pd ... 16 Mar 2010 13:58
un-Googleable webpage? I need to host a page on our website for a client, but I don't want it to show up in any web searches. Is there a header tag or something I can use that will have that effect? -- Sara Hurrah - the weather has cheered up ... 17 Mar 2010 12:30
Word question (or Pages I guess) Does anyone know how I create a double page spread view in Word or Pages? What I want to do is take a double page algorithm currently in an A4 two-page spread in QuarkXpress and put it into a facing pages in a A4 Word doc. Obviously I can save as a JPG or PDF, but I'm too tired now to work out how I create a... 17 Mar 2010 11:22
Order of tracks in a smart playlist I've got a smart playlist that consists of tracks where the album name contains "Halo" and the artist contains "Martin"[0] In the playlist on the Mac it's in the order of the albums, however when it get punted over onto the iPhone it seems to be in no order that I can fathom. Is there a way of setting or altering... 15 Mar 2010 15:51
Bootcamp - drive name has changed suddenly Hi all, Snow Leopard v 10.6.2 and WindowsXP. All has been well since I got a new drive last year and reinstalled the Bootcamp. However just now I booted up in Mac and ... I used to see two drives on my desktop. MacHD, and the partition for windows (can't remember the name ..) But today I see MacHD an... 16 Mar 2010 12:33 |