If anyone has recently bought one of these drives, or intends to, the following may be of interest. Having plugged in a brand spanking new MyBook Pro 500GB to use as my new backup drive I couldn’t understand why I kept receiving the error “Error Code 0…” when trying to back up files manually (this [...]

After one too many bike rides where the party ended up lost, we have invested in a nice shiny Garmin Etrex HC. The plan is simple: download existing mountain bike routes to Etrex, clip Etrex to handlebars, party follows direction arrow on Etrex and a good day (that doesn’t involve stopping to check a map [...]

So Apple’s next OSX release (10.5 Leopard) is delayed until October. Funnily enough, the feature I am looking forward to most isn’t ‘Time Machine’, or even ‘Spaces’. It’s something far simpler… I am a believer that the simplest ideas are always the best and this little beauty is a stroke of genius. I am desperate [...]

After installing the 10.4.9 update to OSX recently I was annoyed to find the usual alt+option+eject shortcut (which puts the computer to sleep) no longer did anything. It meant I had to then use the menu bar to activate the sleep mode. A small but annoying problem. Well it turns out the short-cut does still [...]

I recently needed to get a newsletter out to some of my past and existing customers and as OSX is my operating system of choice set about finding a suitable program. I wanted to send a ‘posh’ html mail for those that could receive it and after a while ‘googling’ I cam across this… Newsletter [...]

As a user of OSX on the mac since day one, a problem that a lot of newcomers to the system come across is the absence of a ‘minimise all’ feature. Windows actually solves this problem perfectly with the ‘show desktop’ button in the taskbar section. As far as I am aware there is no [...]