UK Mac

BusyCal or Spanning Sync?
I've been using Spanning Sync for the last couple of years to sync my iCal data with Google. AS my subscription about to expire I'm wondering about switching to Busycal which comes with the added bonus of not having to fire up iCal again. has anyone switched between these two recently? Anything to watch out for?... 30 Sep 2009 09:01

The sea which is fire
hg <ahmd056(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Name of Allah, the Merciful Hello Hello. [...snip...] an intricate interconnected network of seemingly separate faults Ah, that would be Martin's FireWire disks, I reckon. -zoara- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm ... 27 Sep 2009 17:54

How to see all scheduled tasks
In Snow Leopard how do I get a list of all the jobs that are scheduled on my computer? Is it something to do with launchd or launchctl? thanks. ... 24 Sep 2009 03:49

Free to good home: 2x256Mb SODIMMs
Ex-Mac Mini. Give me a shout if anyone's interested, I'll just post them on. Cheers, Ian ... 21 Sep 2009 18:05

Thieving, robbing b******s
Looking on Amazon for Canon ink for my iP4500, I usually pay �47 for the set of five. I spotted a company called Memory Megastore selling genuine Canon very cheap, so I filled my basket with two of each, came to �60, saving �34, nice, that is until I spotted the delivery charge, wait for it, �40. Say no more. ... 25 Sep 2009 07:34

GrowlMail on SL
Anyone found a version of growlmail that works in Snow Leopard? I've found the beta 1.3 (i think) of Growl that runs, but it doesn't include the mail notifier, which I miss. Anyone got it working? Ric ... 21 Sep 2009 13:27

Phoning Apple Store
I been trying for ages to phone the Apple Store in Kingston, can't get through. Is it because it's Saturday, or is it always like this. Vince ... 19 Sep 2009 12:36

Opera 10
I just downloaded Opera 10.1 and tried to run it. As well as the permanent dock icon I had for it, at least two other temporary dock icons appeared to be spawning and vanishing at a high rate. Force quit took a long time and many attempts to work to stop the new flickering icons, and Opera still appears in the Fo... 22 Sep 2009 15:14

Safari strangeness....
I think I posted this one a while back, but it's still there after 10.6, and clearing caches etc. The first one is with eBay, it's since the format of the pages changed, but when viewing a listing item, I see the description as usual, but I'm getting a huge amoutn of white space between that and the footer. I can't... 15 Sep 2009 16:56

Oh dear god was Re: first worrying sign of imac health problem?
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote: Rowland. Gee. I thought that the clown had said that he'd killfiled me. Rowland's followup was perfectly innocuous. Why be unnecessarily nasty? Because he likes being nasty. Obviously. You of all peo... 15 Sep 2009 13:31