The Mac Man

Well all miss Front Row in Lion, so get it back!

When war time documents relating to the first man made computer at Bletchely Park went on auction Google showed a keen interest and raised the funds to purchase them. Why exactly are Google so interested?

Due to the recent flooding in Thailand hard drive manufacturing has ground to a halt. A very high percentage of hard drives are made in Thailand and the stop in production can only mean one thing, higher prices for consumers and us....

Ofcom has fined TalkTalk and Tiscali UK £3 million after it incorrectly billed tens of thousands of consumers for services they had not received.

Ofcom found that between 1 January and 1 November 2010 over 62,000 consumers were issued bills for services they had not received, in particular to customers that had already closed their accounts.

As promised our iPad and iPhone training days are ready. Feel free to give us a call to chat or book online. All courses are a half day at a very reasonable £79.00 inc VAT

We wanted a way to listen to BBC radio without the need to have a pop up window showing all the time. So we made our own player that isn't intrusive and is out of sight.

In the last couple of days we've had a spate of customers with problems relating to fake anti Virus software that installs on their Mac and alerts the user to supposed viruses.

This is our no nonsense guide to iPad Data plans

Discounted 21.5" iMacs we need to clear. Please call 01273 806 939 for more details. Limited stock.

Apple today released a new range of iMacs which adds Thunderbolt support and faster Intel Quad Core processors

As always many people and the media have been creating a storm about the possibility of Apple being able to track your location. A straight forward answer from Apple PR clears things up for me.

LaCie have announced that they are soon to be shipping Thunderbolt equipped external Little Big Disks. Offering up to 10Gb/s Speeds

Hiroo Edakubo, Group Executive of Canon’s Video Products Group stated, "We are excited about Thunderbolt technology and feel it will bring new levels of performance and simplicity to the video creation market."

If you want to capture an image or text or anything to the matter use the Grab tool built into OS X..Always very handy.

Use this shortcut to launch Spotlight and search for lost stuff...

Spotlight is invaluable... I use it at least 59 times a day. I suggest you try it

Sending emails with attachments can sometimes be a bit tricky. So this little tip makes it just a bit easier to attach any item to an email.

To eject a removable device on your Mac simple type the following shortcut

This shortcut will copy the current link of the webpage you're viewing and dumped it in an email ready to send.

If you need to leave your Mac in a rush then this is very handy indeed. This shortcut will allow to sleep or shutdown your Mac.