Shameless Plug – The Buzzoutroom

What goes perfectly with the coolest computer around? How about the coolest music.
If you like chill out to ‘downbeat grooves’ then head over to The Buzzoutroom and have a listen. It’s perfect for when your passing time on your Mac. My favourites? Blackfish, Chilled CQuence, this list could go on and on.

Keeping it safe

Close your eyes.
Imagine for a moment that the unthinkable happened. Perhaps your hard disk crashed. Perhaps a thief broke in and stole all your computer gear. Perhaps (heaven forbid) the house burned down. All your photos, music, scanned documents and hard work have gone. How do you feel, and how much would you pay to get [...]

The ScanSnap S300M just keeps going

Now that I’m getting used to the quirks of the software, life with the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300M is becoming a lot better. On the hardware side I can barely fault it as the scanner has reliably munched its way through nearly 2,000 pages of A4 documents, tiny till receipts, crumpled up carbon copies, torn invoices [...]

Sharing external drives on a Mac

In my travels around the web I’ve seen a number of posts from people having problems sharing external hard drives on their Macs. Typically the person is saying that they have shared one or more drives using the Sharing option under System Preferences, but that they can’t see those drives from another Mac on the [...]

Entourage and Google Calendar, all sync’ed up

UPDATE 19/Oct/09 – To all the people who have upgraded to Snow Leopard, which causes Calgoo Connect to break. The problem appears to relate to a difference between the version of Java that ships with Snow Leopard and the version of Java that Calgoo Connect expects. Calgoo have not yet responded with a Snow Leopard [...]

The humble MX mouse

What can you say about mice that hasn’t already been said before? As it happens – not much, but there’s a couple of things that spring to mind for Mac users considering an alternative to the (quite frankly dreadful) Apple Mighty Mouse. For almost a year now I’ve been using a Logitech MX Revolution mouse [...]